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...with one of Respighi's chiaroscuro set pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz joined the orchestra in Beethoven's Concerto in D Major, every member of the audience could feel himself the epicenter of the soaring sound...
...Some carpeted, air-conditioned models command $16,000; 12-ft.-wide units now account for 21% of industry sales v. 7% last year. Many of the nation's 20,231 mobile-home parks match such amenities with pools and golf courses. "We were uneasy when we invited Jascha Heifetz to our trailer for a weekend visit," says Mrs. Raymond Kendall, wife of the dean of music at the University of Southern California, "but he had such a good time he invited himself back." For the Kendalls, their oceanside unit an hour's drive from Los Angeles...
Both these Russian bowmen have be come dedicated Californians; Los Angeles, they feel, will become the future cultural center of the U.S. "New York has been too casual about its cultural responsibilities," says Heifetz. Both live in swimming-pooled, tennis-courted luxury: Heifetz in a modern, gadget-strewn hilltop house in Beverly Hills, Piatigorsky in a rambling white frame mansion in nearby Brentwood...
...Sweat. Heifetz lives alone; he has been twice divorced. He prefers small dinners with close friends to the glamour bashes, though his acquaintance among the stars has always been extensive, and when he zips around, he does his zipping in a grey Bentley. Piatigorsky's wife Jacqueline, a daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothschild, is a busy painter, sometime bassoon player, and alltime chess addict who ranks as one of the top ten women players in the U.S. Gregor counters with writing (he has written an autobiography), oceanography and herpetology ("Snakes are so misunderstood...
Will there be many more joint performances like the current triad in Carnegie Hall? "Not many," says Jascha Heifetz. "My sweating days are over...