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...play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
Violinist Fritz Kreisler opened his South American season with a recital. Belle Didjah, U.S. interpretative dancer, gave a performance of mechanistic eurythmics, and Ettore Panizza, fresh from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted Gluck's Alceste. To entertain the swarms of Brazilian tourists that followed the fleet half a dozen road companies were giving dramatic performances in Portuguese...
Critics and fellow-fiddlers have long remarked on Fritz Kreisler's predilection for obscure composers who lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries. On his programs Kreisler has appeared as an arranger of Vivaldi, Pugnani, Couperin, Porpora and a half a dozen others just as little known. But not until last week did Fritz Kreisler admit that he himself had written all the music which he had attributed to them...
...ardent researcher badgered his publishers until Kreisler cabled his confession from Vienna. He wrote most of his so-called classical music 30 years ago when he felt the need of enlarging his repertoire and deduced that it would be "inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on programs...
...When the Kreisler hoax became known, Mischa Elman was pompously indignant. Said he: "It is indeed a surprise that one who stands so high for all that is beautiful, pure and true in art as Kreisler should have resorted to such means. . . ." Other fiddlers showed greater comradeship. Yehudi Menuhin called it "one of the most creditable things that Kreisler has ever done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable...