Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Jascha Heifetz, 27, famed violinist; to Florence Vidor, 33, cinemactress; in Manhattan...
...playing his fiddle at the Prize Day exercises at the Bovée School and his father was accompanying him with great good nature. Part of the applause came from Mrs. Zimbalist, who is really famed Singer Alma Gluck. Also in the audience was Ruvin Heifetz, father to famed Violinist Jascha Heifetz and violin master to small Efrem. Questioned about his son, Efrem Zimbalist said: "He ought to be good...
...Jascha Heifetz...
...periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering sons and daughters of his race." His tone "has been accepted as the standard by which violinists are measured." Heifetz is "the greatest technical genius of the violin of the present day." Kreisler is "the King of Violinists. Hats...
Wonder children are manifold in the musical world. Critics rarely take them seriously-but Kreisler was a prodigy, so were Heifetz, Mischa Elman. Young Yehudi Menuhin has supplied the best violin copy of the season. Another child won serious attention last week. He was Miguel Candela, 12-year-old prize-winner of the Paris Conservatory, come to Manhattan for his U. S. debut. Critics found him better than the average prize-promising student, gave unstinted praise to the virtuosity of his twelve years, the maturity of his conceptions...