Word: zimbalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eerie effects, embodied no attributes of the mechanical age, neither steel works nor jazz. It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week, by the Boston...
...Zimbalist's playing is an almost ideal blend of emotion and intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...
Died. Aaron Zimbalist, 66, father of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, onetime oprra conductor in Russia; of heart disease; in Astoria, L. I. last fortnight. Because Violinist Zimbalist was on tour at the time, preparing to play in Manhattan last week, the news was withheld until after the concert...
...subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department...
...there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker and Percy Rivington Pyne...