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...Manhattan's Italian-born Vittorio Sacconi regularly overhauls Joseph Szigeti's Guarneri and Yehudi Menuhin's Strad; Jascha Heifetz takes his violins to Mischa Yurkevitch when in New York, to A. Koodlach in Los Angeles...
...Jascha Heifetz, 44, famously married to his violin since the age of three, and for 17 years to Florence Vidor, cinema star of the '20s, hoped aloud for a reconciliation after she announced to the press that they had separated...
...Jascha Heifetz: Violin Solos (Decca, 8 sides). The top classical artist to stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for Decca. Now, in his first Decca album, Heifetz puts his cool gloss on bits & pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Godowsky and others. Performance: good...
Jascha Herfetz, one of the world's great violin virtuosos, came off second-best at General Omar N. Bradley's little entertainment in Germany for a group of visiting Soviet generals. After Heifetz and Cinemactor Mickey Rooney had drawn polite applause, three unidentified G.I.s and three WACs went into a groovey jitterbug routine that sent the delighted Russians right out of this world...
...time guest soloists who visit Oklahoma rapidly succumb to Maestro Alessandro's easy, breezy charm. Jascha Heifetz, a normally cool and noncommittal artist, thawed to the point of telling Oklahomans: "I am going to do all 1 can to make the Oklahoma Symphony known-but it will be known without...