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...scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
During the Philharmonic Brahms cycle, New Yorkers and radio listeners will hear Brahms' three other great symphonies. They will also hear the three concertos played by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who have learned to play as Brahms intended, not with a show of fireworks, but as if their instruments belonged in the orchestra. The German Requiem will offer proof of Brahms' simplicity. Bach was a Lutheran but for his great mass he chose the Latin of the Catholic liturgy. The Protestant Brahms chose a homely, Biblical text and his words are German...
Violinists. Jascha Heifetz flew from St. Louis last week to keep engagements in Salt Lake City, Helena. Mont., Seattle, Eugene, Ore. Fritz Kreisler, now touring England, gave his 39 U. S. concerts early in the season. Efrem Zimbalist jumped from Florida to Canada last week. Mischa Elman was due to arrive from Europe. Sleek Albert Spalding was in New England. After 25 concerts Bronislaw Hubermann sailed to play in London but he will return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played...
...carried them across Siberia. And when they reached San Francisco via Japan and Honolulu nothing seemed so strange as the way U. S. residents spread themselves out, unless it was the way they ate soup for the first part of their dinner instead of the last. Last week Jascha Heifetz arrived in New York on the fashionable Conte di Savoia carrying, besides his $45,000 Guarnerius, a $5 quarter-size violin on which he, aged 3, had learned to play. He had been in Russia for the first time since 1917 when he fled with his parents and sisters from...
...Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...