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The sweetness of things.(memoir)
Victor Brombert Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth. W. W. Norton, 320 pages, $25.95
How faraway and long ago Europe's great past now seems. There were injustices and inequalities, to be sure, but also diversity, character, leisure, and liberties, all of which Hitler and Stalin between them killed off, to leave a continent of charnel-houses and memories. The mainsprings of Europe's social and intellectual life have not recovered. Infinitely dreary, today's Europe pretends to a culture and a creativity that it no longer has. There is no point regretting what cannot be mended; nostalgia is only a form of self-pity. But it is possible to keep the record ...
- The best hot dogs, the best beluga: Jascha Heifetz, RIP. (obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Review Chapin, Schuyler January 22, 1988 700+ words
The Best Hot Dogs, the Best Beluga: Jascha Heifetz, RIP ON DECEMBER 10, 1987, Jascha Heifetz died at the age of 86. Newspapers reported...good wishes for bigger and better adventures. Jascha Heifetz." He gave me--he gave us all...
- Amazing Items Still Available From the Jascha Heifetz Collection: Original...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 14, 2001 700+ words
...from one of the greatest violinists of the twentieth century, Jascha Heifetz. The countdown of the Heifetz sale on FineArtsBrokerage...Russian Crystal with the Czar's double emblem. Born in Russia, Jascha Heifetz was a child prodigy of extraordinary gifts who started...
- Jascha Heifetz.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide FINE, ELAINE July 1, 2001 700+ words
...Voorhees Naxos 110943--77 minutes Naxos could hardly do justice to their "Great Violinists" series without including Jascha Heifetz. They chose to do their remastering magic on 20 pieces recorded between 1934 and 1949 that have had multiple issues...
- Jascha Heifetz.(Awards & Appointments)
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide September 1, 2004 700+ words
The violinist Midori has been appointed to the Jascha Heifetz chair in music at the University of Southern California, to begin private coaching in violin performance and in chamber...
- Jascha Heifetz, vol. 3. (From the Archives).
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Magil, Joseph March 1, 2003 700+ words
...performances from the early 1940s through 1951 that were broadcast over the radio. Track 1 is nothing but Lionel Barrymore introducing Jascha Heifetz for the program Concert Hall, which was broadcast to the allied soldiers in WW II. A very suave performance of Ponce...
- Jascha Heifetz & The Virtuoso Heifetz.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide MAGIL July 1, 2000 700+ words
Jascha Heifetz TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto; VIEUX TEMPS: Concerto 4; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen; MOZART: Concerto 5; BEETHOVEN...
- Violinist Jascha Heifetz Devotion To Hard Work Made Him One Of The World's...
- Magazine article from: Investor's Business Daily April 25, 2001 700+ words
...parties at his Malibu beach house, leave to practice, then come back and party on. By Donna Howell Investor's Business Daily Jascha Heifetz knew that to be great, one needed passion, hard work and talent. But one also needed warmth. Heifetz tuned his own...
- Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of...
- Magazine article from: National Review April 6, 2009 700+ words
Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on. He was also a...
- San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik has received a...
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide September 1, 2002 700+ words
San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik has received a three-year loan of Jascha Heifetz's Guarnerius del Gesu violin from the San Francisco Museums of Fine Arts. The 1742 instrument, known as "The David...
- Jascha Heifetz--Double Concertos.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide MAGIL, JOSEPH May 1, 2000 700+ words
BACH: 2-Violin Concerto; MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante; BRAHMS: Double Concerto with Erick Friedman, v; William Primrose, va; Gregor Piatigorsky, vc/ Malcolm Sargent, Izler Solomon, Alfred Wallenstein--RCA 63531--70 min This rerelease of recordings from the mid-1950s and early 1960s in RCA's Living
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