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...Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler got to his feet to blow out the candles...
...just listened to the obituary of my artistic career." Perhaps the eulogies, by his longtime friends, Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, had been premature; but then, his had been the kind of life that had moved the New York Times last week to call Fritz Kreisler what in fact he was: "A great human being, one of our most magnificent contemporaries...
...been 62 years since Kreisler, a shock-haired Austrian boy of 13, had first visited the U.S. Even then he had thrilled U.S. .audiences with the mellow beauty of his tone and interpretations. The son of a Viennese physician, he had already won all the gold medals Vienna and Paris could offer at their conservatories. But, as he reminded ambitious youngsters last week, he had had to wait until he was 40 before he could earn "a good living" as a violinist. "I am sorry when I hear of a young artist suddenly becoming rich. Wealth and lack of worry...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Fritz Kreisler...
When Rafael was bora in 1914, Jan Kubelik was one of the world's best in an age of great violinists (Kreisler, Ysaye, Auer, Zimbalist), had made himself a millionaire by his world-circling concert tours. Rafael began his musical training at five, picked out his first composition at eight on one of the Kubelik household's six pianos. At 14, he was enrolled at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1934, when Rafael was 20, his father considered him accomplished enough to go along on a world tour as his accompanist and conductor. Purpose of the tour...