Word: zimbalist
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Composer Deems Taylor conducted some of his own music, managing his pince-nez with one hand, his baton with the other. Efrem Zimbalist fiddled. Then Kate Smith sang the big siren song from Samson & Delilah while Stokowski, a bit unnerved, conducted...
Marcia Davenport, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck, stepdaughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, in a notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth...
...fees can command as good tours as ever. Baritone John Charles Thomas sings for $1,500 but his 92 engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
...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...
...Zimbalist had just arrived in the U. S. (1911) when he met Soprano Alma Gluck. She was standing at the prow of a ferryboat, on her way to sing in New Jersey. Some one spoke to her and she turned around to see Zimbalist standing there with a great wide smile wrinkling up his homely face. For three years thereafter he hung around the Metropolitan Opera stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began...