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...distinctly American phenomenon. To musicians, whose torch he has faithfully carried for twenty-two years with notable increases in wage scales and decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern," to the non-union Boston Symphony, to the moguls of canned music and juke boxes, and to the record buying public he is an obstinately unpleasant phenomenon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petrillo--American Phenomenon | 8/12/1942 | See Source »

Schubert: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet, with Benar Heifetz, cellist; Columbia; 12 sides). This lyric, dark-hued quintet, composed in the last months of Schubert's life, has the "heavenly length" of his Seventh Symphony. Finely, sensitively played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Brahms: Trio No. 1 , in B Major (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Emanuel Feuermann, cello; Victor; 8 sides). Three great artists, tops in their fields, submerged their prima donna instincts late last summer in Victor's Hollywood studios to breathe rich new life into an old trio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schuman, No Kin | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...much of the outside world, the British Government seemed like the Heifetz of all fiddlers while the Rome of all Romes burned. History might soon make the description fit. But after centuries of British-Indian relations, and even with the loss of India much more than a possibility, few British statesmen could be expected to do anything decisive about India. There were many reasons for this indecision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: How Much Longer? | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Author Ewen hopefully pictures the present-day U.S. as a singing, playing, listening, understanding nation of 10,000,000 music students, 50,000 school bands and orchestras, though he tempers this estimate with such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The U.S. Gets Musical | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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