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Players and Program. The emiriton is merely an instrument. At last week's premiere, none of the performers was yet a Heifetz or a Kreisler. Co-inventor* Alexander Antipovitch Ivanov was best. Others included a tall man who never seemed to move or be moved, two girls of about 17 who swayed ecstatically with their work and two nervous young men who looked as if they ought to stop fooling around with emiritons and get out and play football...
...Fritz Kreisler, audibly restless as she listened to a speech in praise of General Charles de Gaulle, was herself suddenly interrupted by Playwright Henri Bernstein, who leaned forward from the platform and said to the violinist's red-haired wife: "Mrs. Kreisler, would you please be kind enough to keep your mouth shut...
...Fritz Kreisler signed his first radio contract-with an NBC summer musical program. The violinist had two good reasons for changing his antiradio mind: 1) wartime travel restrictions, 2) pleas from his fans...
...Fritz Kreisler, 68, became a U.S. citizen. The Vienna-born violinist had described himself to Immigration authorities as a French citizen; after the Nazi coup in Austria he had gone to France, won honorary citizenship there...
Short, impassive Milstein fully seizes such melodious, bravura opportunities as the Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch concertos (both of which he has recorded for Columbia). But he is also among the most sensitive living interpreters of Beethoven's and Bach's violin music. To aging Violinist Fritz Kreisler (see cut) he is the greatest of today's younger generation of violinists. Unlike most Russian fiddlers, he had a wealthy father (a wool importer). Milstein was born in Odessa, was sent to the Imperial Conservatory at the age of eleven. The revolution stopped his violin lessons, but he went...