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...percent undoing and fifty percent doing." It would be wonderful, they feel. if all U.S. master musicians followed the example set by their colleagues in Russia and devoted some of their time to teaching. Says Piatigorsky: "So many people who were here with us and now are gone-like Kreisler and Toscanini-never had students. This is a great loss, and we must not repeat the mistake...
...scattered, according to no detectable pattern, a clutch of articles, feature stories, puzzles, pictures, cartoons, weather maps and poetry (including all 60 lines of John Greenleaf Whittier's Barbara Frietchie). Two stories on Pope John XXIII ran on separate pages (4 and 26); an obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash of newspaper and magazine critics...
Long the world's highest-paid violinist,* Kreisler was famed for both his astonishing musical memory and his aversion to practice: sometimes he would go a whole summer without touching the violin on the theory that "if I played too frequently, I should rub the bloom off the musical imagination." In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient...
...Kreisler looked on Cellist Pablo Casals as "the greatest musician to draw a bow," and in his old age, he deplored the "fear of sentiment" among younger musicians. As for his own career: "I have achieved only a medium approach to my ideal in music," said Fritz Kreisler at 79. "I got only fairly near." Perhaps-but he got as close as any other mortal fiddler...
Died. Fritz Kreisler, 86, the greatest violinist of his time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see Music...