Word: violinist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-brow music's biggest business is towering, barrel-chested Arthur Judson, president of Columbia Concerts Corp. He knows a sharp from a flat because he was once a violinist and small independent impresario. And he soon saw that it would be a bright idea to hook up concert music with radio's enormous publicity. In 1930 he merged with four of his competitors and sold Columbia Broadcasting System a half-interest in his new corporation. Today he is music's biggest wholesaler. In the music world he is quite generally regarded as the big bad wolf...
Ernest Schelling (Sat. 11 a. m. CBS) conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in a mainly Mendelssohn program with Guila Bustabo, 19-year-old violinist, as soloist...
Home to her mother at Los Gatos, Calif., after seven months of marriage, went Yaltah Menuhin Stix, 16, younger sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Husband William Stix, attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, said nothing. Mother Menuhin said Yaltah would remain in California until "the inclement weather is over...
Last week Violinist Kreisler might have announced that he was commemorating the 50th anniversary of his U. S. debut. But his first Manhattan appearance of the season, which drew throngs to Carnegie Hall, was billed as just another concert. Concertgoers who went to hear him had long since ceased to expect prodigies of technique or tone from 63-year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel...
...able pianist as well as a violinist, Fritz Kreisler is also widely known for his compositions, chief among them a sheaf of ingratiating light violin pieces (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, etc.) which are played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...