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...life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard a phonograph record of Violist Primrose playing a Paganini caprice. Never had they heard or heard tell of such fast & fluent viola playing, at first thought some super-brilliant violinist like Jascha Heifetz had made the record under an assumed name. They telegraphed Primrose, then on tour with the London String Quartet, and offered him the job of Toscanini's chief viola player. He accepted...
...film "They Shall Have Music" seems to have hit at last on the right formula for putting a great man of music on the screen. The solution: putting him on the screen. Heifetz and more Heifetz, superbly recorded, is the main element of this film; all others are kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with...
...great Jascha, he plays fast, plays slow, plays alone, and plays with orchestra. He is called on for almost no acting, which seems a shame, for he has a very pleasant manner. With his $70,000 Stradivarins tucked firmly under his chin, Heifetz produces a kind of beauty that puts this movie in a class by itself...
...leisurely filming of an off-key love episode in the life of a middle-aged man with a middle-aging wife (Edna Best). In Hollywood's current concern with musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...
Brahms: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 9 sides). One of the two or three violin concertos that rank with the greatest of symphonies. Magnificently recorded...