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...around 1800, an already notorious teen-age violinist arrived in Leghorn to play a concert-with no violin. His name was Nicolo Paganini, and he had pawned his fiddle to pay off a pressing gambling debt. A wealthy merchant offered to lend him a matchless Guarneri del Gesu and, when the performance was over, refused to take it back. "The Guarneri is yours," he cried. "My hands shall never profane the violin which you have touched...
Popular superstition had long suspected him of a pact with the devil: How else could a man do with a violin what Paganini did? The Genoese enshrined his Guarneri in the city hall-though they were still uneasy about its late owner, and the Pope himself had to launch an inquiry into Paganini's orthodoxy before he could be buried in consecrated ground years later...
...years, the reference must be to me. The quotation is as follows: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that it is no more reasonable to require that each girl shall spell well than it is that each one shall bake a good cherry pie." I have never made this statement or any statement similar to it. Such a reference may be damaging to a teacher or school administrator...
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Jascha Heifetz; Victor, 3 LPs). Master Fiddler Heifetz brings some of the repertory's toughest music to life with his superb confidence and technique. There are a few passages where technique seems uppermost in his mind, but for the most part the slow movements have appealing warmth and the fast ones take off in whirlwinds of color...
...born in the south Italian hill town of Martina Franca, locally famed for its bandits, where her father was a well-to-do owner of vineyards. Music was in the air, and she was picking out tunes on the mandolin before she was four, soon switched to the violin. Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes. At 17 she won a violin professorship at the Bari conservatory...