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...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
...Fritz Kreisler, 71, was doing all right after an emergency appendectomy at a Manhattan hospital...
...Fritz Kreisler (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). He returns to the Telephone Hour as guest of Donald Voorhees and his orchestra...
...Messiah" Strad rests in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; the equally famed "Alard" is owned by an English collector who does not fiddle with it. The third great Strad, "The Earl of Plymouth," was found in 1925 in an old storeroom on the Earl's estate. Fritz Kreisler bought the "Earl...
Last week 71-year-old Fritz Kreisler sold his Strad for less than its assessed value of $80,000. The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...