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With two exceptions,* all of today's first-rank violinists are Jews. A good percentage of them are also Russians. And practically all of the Russians (Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, etc.) are onetime pupils of crotchety, bearded, Hungarian-Jewish Leopold Auer,† who went to St. Petersburg in 1868 to teach at Czar Alexander II's Imperial Conservatory of Music...
Married. Maria Zimbalist Goelet. daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; and Henry F. Bennett Jr. of Reno; each for the second time; in Philadelphia. Her first was Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet...
...biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped the million mark, and only five violinists: Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Menuhin, Zimbalist. All the rest are singers...
Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
Violinist Zimbalist said he was disappointed. But he and Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...