Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Jascha Heifetz; Victor, 3 LPs). Master Fiddler Heifetz brings some of the repertory's toughest music to life with his superb confidence and technique. There are a few passages where technique seems uppermost in his mind, but for the most part the slow movements have appealing warmth and the fast ones take off in whirlwinds of color...
...eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate, blending with the stronger tones of Stern and Menuhin in a performance...
Walton leaped to fame in 1926 with Facade. His Belshazzar was, to London Sunday Times Critic Ernest Newman, "bursting with a very fury of exultation." Walton wrote a Violin Concerto for his friend Jascha Heifetz, but was driving an ambulance in London during the war when the work was premiered and never heard it until it was recorded...
...view of James Caesar Petrillo, trumpeter-boss of the American Federation of Musicians, musicians are simply workmen who make more or less pleasant noises for a living. "What's the difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There...