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...record buyers, Victor will dip into its library and reissue on LP such of its old masters as "can be rerecorded without loss of quality and tonal fidelity." That will include most of the great records made in the last decade by Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Marian Anderson, John Charles Thomas, many another star in a catalogue of classical music without parallel in the record industry...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Jascha Heifetz...
...names on the program at Chicago's Ravinia Park were familiar enough; Chicagoans had heard Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky as brilliant, and highly individual, soloists. All summer, musical Chicago had been wondering what would happen when the three virtuosos got together in a trio for the first time...
Tight-lipped Fiddler Heifetz, voluble little Pianist Rubinstein and hulking Cellist Piatigorsky had been wondering the same thing. Said Piatigorsky: "If you have one man who is very meticulous and precise, one who is more general and one who is ... ah ... melancholy, you must work very hard until you all feel [the music] together...
Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...