Word: kreisler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a great difference between being a great artist and a successful concertizing artist," said Fritz Kreisler, world famous violin maestro yesterday afternoon...
...Kreisler, who opens the Boston recital season at Symphony Hall next Wednesday evening, said that he would not advise a young man to set out on a career such as he has had. He does not think the compensations of fame are worth all the demands it imposes...
Fleeing from war-gripped Europe to the U. S., canceling tours in war sectors was many a famed musician: Violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Conductor Arturo Toscanini, Singers Alexander Kipnis, Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, Lauritz Melchior...
...Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain...
...today's fine fiddlers the are brillinat Jascha Heifetz, mellow Fritz Kreisler, fastidious Joseph Szigeti.Connoisseurs, who judge by form rather than knockouts, have long rated Szigeti tops...