Word: zimbalist
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...such rules and precedents are not made for masters; they are made by them, and may be broken by them at will. Last week Ignace Jan Paderewski appeared at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, jointly with Efrem Zimbalist (violinist), Felix Salmond ('cellist) and Harold Bauer, "who turned the pages," in a performance of Beethoven's Trio in B-flat...
...audience rose, cheered, stamped, shouted, whistled, howled. They patiently endured intermediate numbers by Salmond and Zimbalist, only to burst forth again at the reappearance of the idol of two generations. Then the stage lights were lowered, just as Paddy first had them lowered in the same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when...
...gracious act of self-effacement for Efrem Zimbalist and Felix Salmond to assist Mr. Paderewski...
Sunday afternoon, January 27, in Symphony Hall a concert of pieces for the violin by Efrem Zimbalist, too well known to require comment. He will play the Mendelssohn Concerto, a Brahms Sonata and pieces by Reger and Sarasate. The second concert of the Steinert series...
...Zimbalist's music while somewhat disappointing was on the whole adequate. It is melodious but without pronounced individuality save in such special numbers as the song "A Cup of Tea", in the Chinese style, the jazz tune "Drop Me a Line", a Spanish song, the Viennese, polka, the dance "a la Minute" where their versatility and rythmic vitality served to redeem the music as a whole...