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...Where's Stravinsky? Critic Thomson's biggest quarrel was over programs. Artists "at the level of fame" of Flagstad, Heifetz, Horowitz and Rubinstein could "do as they please." But, he charged, the programs of artists at a lower level are "censored in a most arbitrary fashion" by the New York concert services (who promptly denied it). "With concert business bigger than ever (by volume)," wrote Thomson, "the concert repertory gets smaller year by year. There are only five piano sonatas by Beethoven that the central offices will accept without a row. No long work by Schumann is considered...
...cannot say that we have a cultured country." He wanted a town orchestra as an "outlet for the musician who doesn't want to be a virtuoso but who still wants to play"-and who otherwise doesn't have a chance "unless he is a little Heifetz." Nelson Vance Russell, president of Carroll College, was as eager as Weber, and Cymbalist Hayek finally agreed to try. Result: the Waukesha Symphony...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest : Violinist Jascha Heifetz...