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FROM The Hague, Israel Shenlker, TIME correspondent in the Benelux countries, reported early last summer that Russia's great violinist, David Oistrakh, might go on a Western tour, including the U.S. Asked to follow up the story, Shenker took a direct approach. "I picked up the phone," he said, "and asked the Dutch operator to get me Oistrakh, a violinist in Moscow...
...astonished operator was dubious but promised to try. Twenty minutes later, she had Oistrakh on the line. Philadelphia-born Correspondent Shenker tried the violinist in four languages, including his dimly remembered college (University of Pennsylvania '47) Russian. But he got nowhere until, on a hunch, he switched to Yiddish. That did it. Since then, Shenker has toured the Scandinavian countries with Oistrakh, and met him again in New York to report this week's story (see Music). FOR his first TIME cover, Vienna Born Artist Henry Koerner whose life and works are well known to TIME-readers, went...
Eventually, as recordings crossed the Atlantic, a question was being asked seriously: Is Russia's David Oistrakh the world's finest fiddler...
...countrymen, for most of today's great violinists are Russian (and, by an odd cultural phenomenon, Russian Jews). Their names: Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern and (of Russian parents) Yehudi Menuhin. This week, for the first time, U.S. audiences had a chance to compare Oistrakh in person with the other violin masters. For, during Geneva's temporary thaw in the cold war, Moscow had decided to allow its most famous musical performer to come...
...Pianist Emil Gilels headed West for a guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first U.S. performance by a topflight Soviet musician since 1921; Violinist David Oistrakh will come soon for a U.S. concert tour, followed, perhaps, by famed Ballerina Galina Ulanova...