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...When I was a student at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg,'' says Violinist Jascha Heifetz, the great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors -Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world...
...concert conducted by Leopold Stokowski and another attended by President Kennedy may be among the highlights of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's now-definite trip to Mexico this summer...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...
...Leopold Stokowksi predicted last night that reality of orchestral and operatic performances in the States will "inevitably decline" unless they receive support from the federal government...
...Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival opens this evening with a panel discussion on the case for public support of the arts in the Quincy Dining Hall at 8:30 p.m. Conductor Leopold Stokowski is a member of the panel, which also includes Norman Singer, director of the Aspen (Colorado) Music Festival, and author Dean Brelis...