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Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden...
While preparing for a concert series at Los Angeles' Pilgrimage Theater, aging (60) but unbowed Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz commented bitingly to the press on his seeming lack of interest in modern compositions. "Yes, I play them occasionally," said he. "And for two reasons. First, to discourage the composers from writing any more, and secondly, to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven...
...years almost to the day since Nathan Milstein made his New York debut. Now 55, he belongs to the tradition of such great Russian-Jewish violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, all of whom were, like Milstein, trained by the late great Leopold Auer. In the generation that has passed since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music...
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...