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...they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign (Ill.) junior high school: "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...
...fortune which he puts at $30 million, most of it in his company. But despite his wealth, he has no use for show. He drives his own Ford, eats $1 lunches, goes hatless to avoid hatcheck tips. But he is not penurious. A lover of music (he plays the violin), he was one of the main supports of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for six years with donations totaling more than $2,000,000. At 52, Reichhold, who now makes his headquarters in New York, is giving away his company's stock-to friends, relatives outside his immediate family...
Walton leaped to fame in 1926 with Facade. His Belshazzar was, to London Sunday Times Critic Ernest Newman, "bursting with a very fury of exultation." Walton wrote a Violin Concerto for his friend Jascha Heifetz, but was driving an ambulance in London during the war when the work was premiered and never heard it until it was recorded...
...Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown-up 59, recalled that he "was crazy to be a concert violinist. But I'm like most golfers-I like to play, but I never practiced." After the chat, the professor remarked on the pity of it all: "He probably would have gone far. He showed a lot of promise...
...addition to his third opera, seventh symphony and a couple of film scores, Antheil has been busy recently on a violin concerto, piano sonatas and a string quartet. A few years ago he wrote his autobiography, Bad Boy of Music, in which he bade a fervent farewell to jangle, for a while even wrote a column of advice to the lovelorn for the Chicago Sun syndicate. But he has now given literature up, too. "It's silly for a composer to write a book," he says. "I'm just too busy to be sensational any more...