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Performing before an audience of 700 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris last week, Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz completed the last segment of a taped, hour-long all-Heifetz TV show that will be aired in the U.S. in April. During a passage that the accompanying French National Orchestra played too loudly, Heifetz, 69, cautioned, "Softer, please, they want to hear me." An impressive standing ovation proved that he was absolutely right...
...conducting professionally since the age of 20, when he became the leader of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in his native Los Angeles. Since then, he has worked as an assistant to Pierre Boulez at Bayreuth and California's Ojai Festival, rehearsed the orchestra for the famous Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts. If Thomas seems to enjoy the performing aspects of conducting, that is natural. His grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, was a founder of the Yiddish theater in New York. His father is Film Maker Ted Thomas; Paul Muni was a cousin...
Violinist Alexander Schneider is no dazzling virtuoso. "After I first heard Heifetz, I cried for a week," he says. Nor, when he conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second...
Born in Vilna, Russia, a center of Jewish culture that produced Heifetz, Schneider acquired early experience as a teen-age member of a trio in a local restaurant. The trio occasionally was summoned to play in an upstairs room while a patron made love to a prostitute in full view of the musicians. Undaunted-even by the tip of a bottle of vodka-Schneider sometimes arranged to meet the girl afterward...
...society editor could attend the 1967 wedding of Republican Senator Charles Percy's daughter Sharon Lee to Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. Crusty Harry Romanoff, 76, of the Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details of the crime from a policeman by pretending to be the Cook County coroner, 2) landed an exclusive story on Suspect Richard Speck by convincing...