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Divorced. Jascha Heifetz, 62, Russian-born violin virtuoso; by Frances Sears Heifetz, 53, his second wife, who charged he tried to lock her out of their Beverly Hills home; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip from record shelves, but with 70 of his recordings available, he still has nearly twice as many as Jascha Heifetz, the next most popular fiddler. E. Power Biggs leads the organists, and the cellist with the largest recorded repertory is Janos Starker...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Jascha Heifetz; RCA Victor) is a five-LP package that includes all ten of Beethoven's sonatas, masterfully played by Violinist Heifetz and Pianists Emanuel Bay and Brooks Smith. What with a fat book of program notes, it is big enough to be a doorstop; what with Heifetz playing as he does, it is almost a way of life...
...enough to unstring one's Stradivarius. When Violinist Jascha Heifetz, 61, returned to Beverly Hills from a business trip, he discovered that his wife Frances, 52, who had moved out of the house eight weeks earlier, was back home again. But did she want a reconciliation? Not at all; she barricaded herself in her old bedroom with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the doorknob. Involved, somehow, was Mrs. Heifetz' suit for $3,750 monthly separate maintenance and child support, and Heifetz' counter-offer of $1,213. Heifetz fiddled while Mrs. Heifetz burned; then, after three days...
...commercial recording followed soon on the Signal Corps discovery: the adoption of 33⅓ r.p.m. as a standard speed for records would have been less practical had not tape-splicing techniques done away with the necessity of a perfect studio performance. Tape also made possible such stunts as Jascha Heifetz' singlehanded recording of the Bach D Minor Concerto for Two Violins and the famed recording of Patti Page singing the Tennessee Waltz over her own voice. But music lovers did not at first welcome prerecorded tape with open ears, despite its admitted advantages (virtually no surface noise or deterioration...