Word: jascha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good...
Married. Josepha Heifetz, 27, concert pianist, daughter of Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and Robert Byrne, 27, editor of Western Construction, a San Francisco engineering trade magazine; in San Francisco...
Also, the Bassoon. In the 1956-57 season, Piatigorsky has traveled 60,000 miles concertizing all over the world. Recently, he finished recording three Beethoven trios with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose, and he has been invited to record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there...
Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz; Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl; Victor). Miklos Rozsa, best known as a movie composer (Spellbound, A Double Life), writes music that is recognizably Hungarian-after Bartok and Kodaly made the style familiar-and also, by some strange chemistry of the ear, Hollywoodian. Its message is easygoing, its orchestration competently conservative. The concerto was written for Heifetz, who helped out with parts of it, and who plays it as if he had written...
...State Department approves the exchange, Russia's Bolshoi Theater Ballet may open in Manhattan on New Year's eve, while Moscow on the same night gets a performance by either the New York City Ballet Company, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, Contralto Marian Anderson or Violinist Jascha Heifetz...