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...real-estate owner, Crosby decided to seek better results from the state's personal-property tax. If Nebraskans had winked at the real-estate tax, they had guffawed at the personal-property tax. Few reported all personal property for assessment, as required by the law. In Omaha, a violinist in the symphony orchestra reported no violin, a furrier no furs, a camera dealer no camera, a jeweler no jewelry, the manager of a television station no TV set. Not much could be done about it, because personal-property tax laws are almost impossible to enforce. Farmers in two western...
...piano in the house; young Rudi knew how to read music by the time he was four, made a public appearance at twelve. But papa Serkin discouraged a prodigy's career, and it was not until Rudi was 17 that he began touring as a member of Violinist Adolf Busch's ensemble. He made his U.S. debut in 1933, returned with his wife (Busch's daughter Irene) when the war began, and became a U.S. citizen...
Philosophy First. Although he has successfully stormed Europe's capitals, Julius Katchen is little known in his own country. The son of a pianist-mother and amateur-violinist father, he made his debut as an eleven-year-old prodigy with the Philadelphia Orchestra and played with the best U.S. orchestras and in solo recitals until...
Strauss: Don Quixote (Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor). A fairly beery treatment of the Cervantes tragicomedy by one of the world's great orchestraters. The Boston Symphony (plus Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Violinist Richard Burgin, Violist Joseph de Pasquale) gives it a foamy performance...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 6 p.m., CBS). With Violinist Anshel Brusilow...