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Twenty months ago, sadfaced, crew-cropped Violinist Jascha Heifetz cast up his accounts. At 46, he had logged nearly 100,000 hours on his fiddle ("the equivalent of practically ten years of playing 24 hours a day") and traveled almost 2,000,000 miles. He was, he decided, long overdue for an overhaul. At the end of his season, he called off all concert fiddling, except a few radio broadcasts, "to give both myself and the public a break...
...unearthed a new Italian conductor-one who "conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Violinist Ginette Neveu...
Last week, for the third time in ten years, a Carnegie Hall audience saw, heard, and applauded Violinist Goldberg. When he walked quickly onstage to take a stiff stance before the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the audience saw a small, smooth-haired and handsome man in his late 30s. Holding his fiddle high, he gave his listeners a powerful performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with clear round tones and steel-fingered doublestops, that brought the audience to its feet when it was over...
...hair to make more bows for the fiddles, the prisoners surreptitiously plucked strands from the tail of the horse that pulled their food cart at mealtimes. How did his orchestra sound? "Well, not like the New York Philharmonic." How was the violin he played himself? "Fine," said Violinist Goldberg, "except it had guitar strings...