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...launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
Hilsberg got his early violin training in the same St. Petersburg prodigy factory that turned out Heifetz and Milstein. But he has no regrets that he did not contiue a career of concert fiddling. "I could Vt stand up there and play again and again the Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms [concerti]. That is like being a painter and being handed a palette with only a few colors. Conducting, you have all the colors you could possibly want...
...combination of Beethoven, Heifetz, and Charles Munch made the B.S.O.'s concert Saturday night one of its greatest triumphs. The three familiar works on the program received brilliant interpretations which brought out some of the hidden beauties usually overlooked in run-of-the-mill performances...
...Jascha Heifetz, who has appeared with the Boston Symphony on and off since 1919, played the work for which he is perhaps most famous: the Beethoven D major concerto. This glorious composition, generally regarded as THE Violin Concerto, is a perfect fusion of the Classical and the Romantic in music. The collaboration of Heifetz and Munch resulted in a skillful blending of Classic clarity and Romantic richness. Heifetz performed with even greater fluency than in his definitive recording with Toscanini. He played with great insight, and tossed the many cadenza-like passages with uncanny ease...