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...Teacher Louis Persinger. played the violin in a Mozart program. "My son," announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like his father's pupils, Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin. But he plays now in a sturdy, forthright fashion more illustrative of expert teaching than of inspiration...
Most prodigious of all, Yehudi Menuhin, 14, wore his first long pants in London, to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto under Sir Thomas Beecham...
...demonstrated a great talent worthy of great music. Busch, like Brahms, scorns meaningless display. In music alternately heroic and deeply tender, he displayed an immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretative sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeded in preserving in his pupil, young Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time. In Manhattan next week Violinist Busch will be given an enviable debut.* Conductor Arturo Toscanini...
...vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
...until Jan. 1, 1931, the parents thereafter. Most contested clause in the suit was won by Miss Lackey: that Ruggiero shall go through with ten concerts in ten weeks at $2,500 a concert this autumn. The Riccis feared for Ruggiero's health. Lackey counsel pointed to chubby, healthy Yehudi Menuhin.* The Riccis countered with Pianist Josef Hofmann's exploitation when a boy. Declared the court of prodigies in general, of Ruggiero in particular: "No such prodigious task confronts him [Ruggiero] as the one imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half...