Word: jascha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need some oversight to get the process right. We need students and faculty to participate," protesters sang in the song, to the tune of "Fugue for Tin Horns," with lyrics by Elizabeth C. Vladeck '99 and Jascha S. Hoffman...
...century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordings--concertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose--have been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and force. Hear it and marvel at what might have been...
...concert in April, D.A.R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D.A.R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...
Moving through the years, the set includes such highlights in the symphony's history as Otto Klemperer's masterly U.S. premiere in 1934 of the original, and now standard, version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9; and the youthful ardor and easy virtuosity of Jascha Heifetz and Arturo Toscanini performing Brahms' Violin Concerto in 1935. The impassioned responsiveness Toscanini elicits from the orchestra demonstrates why his players held...
...recently lost her husband Bill, an English painter, to leukemia. She lives on in London with her admirably behaved eight-year-old son and tries to imagine how she will endure her grief and bereavement. One answer knocks on her apartment door shortly after Bill's death: Jascha Kremsky, a sculptor and an acquaintance of her late husband's and, it turns out, a widower who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident several years earlier...