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...center, which Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. cited as one of the major accomplishments of his tenure, will be led by Public Service Professor David R. Gergen, a former White House adviser, and by Lecturer in Public Policy Ronald A. Heifetz...
...century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordings--concertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose--have been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and force. Hear it and marvel at what might have been...
...April, D.A.R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D.A.R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...
Moving through the years, the set includes such highlights in the symphony's history as Otto Klemperer's masterly U.S. premiere in 1934 of the original, and now standard, version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9; and the youthful ardor and easy virtuosity of Jascha Heifetz and Arturo Toscanini performing Brahms' Violin Concerto in 1935. The impassioned responsiveness Toscanini elicits from the orchestra demonstrates why his players held...
...Ronald A. Heifetz, Director Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of government, Harvard...