Word: heifetzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt. Suddenly, Violinist Jascha Heifetz switched from RCA to Decca. Victor and Columbia could see droves of other topnotch artists leaving their stables. After last week's election, they caved in. All hope of beating the union boss had gone...
...Albeneri Trio is made up of Alexander Schneider, former second violinist for the world-famous Budapest String Quartet, Benar Heifetz, first cellist for the NBC Symphony, and Erich Kahn, well-known pianist-composer...
...Jascha Heifetz, tuning up with two recitals in Rome before going on tour among front-line troops, announced that he would play only classical numbers, including some "musical spinach" like Bach's lighter works. The virtuoso observed that 10% of the soldiers "seem to like serious music . . . the other 90% get leg shows...
...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
Mozart: Divertimento for Violin, Viola & Cello, K. 563 (Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). All-star cast, probably the most brilliant that could have been assembled, with a resulting whole that is nearly but not quite the sum of its parts -Heifetz sometimes neglects teamwork. Performance excellent, recording excellent...