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Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate message on drums...
...conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over programs, boning up on the violin, his first love, with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz...
...kilter. Local patriots rose to the defense of their river, with "Save the Saugatuck" their watchword. To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees. While Writers Stuart Chase and Deems Taylor protested, Fiddler Jascha Heifetz gave a "Save the Saugatuck" concert, devoted its proceeds to the cause...
PROKOFIEFF: CONCERTO No. 2 IN G MINOR (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jascha Heifetz; Victor: 6 sides). Composer Prokofieff's expedition into the "deeper realms of music" (TIME, April 4) has turned up one of the finest contemporary concertos. Brilliantly performed...
CESAR FRANCK: SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Rubinstein; Victor: 6 sides). Polished performance by a perfectly matched pair of virtuosos...