Leopold Godowsky - Humor violinist mischa elman called round after an exceptionally successful tourand asked Godowsky excitedly to guess how much money he had made. http://www.godowsky.com/Biography/humor.html
Extractions: Wit and Wisdom selected by Jeremy Nicholas Many so-called humorous remarks by celebrated musicians fail to raise even a watery smile. Godowsky was well known for his waspish sense of humour and many of his witticisms and sagacious remarks have passed into musical folklore. Surprisingly, perhaps, the majority have stood the test of time and remain genuinely amusing. Among these is one of the most famous of all music-related anecdotes. You can find the full account of this story as the final item in this brief collection. Here for your enjoyment, in no particular order, are some of Godowsky's bon mots Oscar Levant, the pianist, composer, wit, actor and raconteur recalled in his autobiographical volume Memoirs of an Amnesiac the occasion when a film director asked him to include in a speech a quip made by Godowsky: "I don't like to go to concerts because if they're good, I'm jealous; if they're bad, I'm bored." (Levant actually refused to say the words unless he could attribute them to their author.) Godowsky moved with his family from Vienna to New York in 1914. Their first home was the Plaza Hotel. Bechstein provided Godowsky with two grands, replaced free of charge every year, and of course these had to be accommodated in his apartment. As the moving men panted and strained to move the two latest instruments, one of them paused in his efforts, mopped his brow and told their owner exactly what he thought of having to lug heavy concert grands about. "What are you complaining about?" laughed Godowsky. "You only have to move pianos. I have to move audiences."
E He was naturalized in 1940 as a US citizen his third citizenship.mischa elman (18911967) Concert and recording violinist. His http://members.tripod.com/slalli/e.htm
Extractions: The greatest physicist of the 20th Century. His ideas revolutionized our entire understanding of the universe. Einstein changed the course of science as much as did Copernicus, Newton and Darwin. His fundamental contribution was the theory of relativity. This has many facets, but for most people the theory means that the faster you travel (approaching the speed of light), the more time slows down. He also was responsible for the formulation E=MC , which describes the relationship between mass and energy. A little mass can give off a lot of energy. Among other things, this formula accounts for the tremendous explosive force given off by an atomic bomb. After his theories gained prominence, Einstein was appointed professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich and at the University of Prague. In 1913, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin. In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research of the photoelectric effect. Einstein, who was Jewish, fled anti-Semitic persecution in Germany just as Hitler came to power. On his arrival to the United States in 1933, Einstein had a job waiting for him. He was granted a lifetime professorship by the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. He was naturalized in 1940 as a U.S. citizen his third citizenship.
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All Things Strings: Reviews of Elgars friend Albert Sammons, the great English violinist, is interesting Thesweettoned, unabashedly sentimental mischa elman was Heifetzs exact http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/strings94/reviews.shtml
Extractions: by Edith Eisler There has been a surge of interest in the great violinists of the past recently, as if audiences have tired of the undifferentiated, mass-producedsounding performances often heard today and begun yearning for the "good old days" when players could be clearly identified by their tone and personality. The resulting flood of reissues on compact disc offers a fascinating look at the style and characteristics of the greatest violinists of the last century. In this selective report on the concerto repertoire, I hope to reclaim some less-known players and stimulate further explorations. The earliest violinist recorded here is Carl Flesch (18731944), who is remembered mainly as a great teacher but whose recording of the Beethoven and Brahms Concertos (
VIOLIN JOKES At Jascha Heifetz's debut at Carnegie Hall in 1917, violinist mischa elman stoodup at the break and wiping his face, he commented It's hot in here! Arthur http://suewidemark.netfirms.com/violinjokes.htm
Content from 430 to 6, was routinely interrupted by a call from mischa elman, as soon ensuingminute and a half was uncomfortable for both the great violinist and the http://www.newmusicbox.org/news/oct00/perlman.html
Extractions: photo by Judith Golan George Perlman violinist and composer, taught for 74 years until two months before his death on June 23, 2000, at age 103. For much of his life he taught 60 hours a week, plus performing in concerts, composing works played around the world and editing violin music for Carl Fischer . He retired from teaching on April 15th of this year. He joked that he had come to the Fine Arts Building at 410 S. Michigan , where he had his teaching studio, "just before the flood, the one in the Bible." In fact, the Fine Arts Building, considered an historic Chicago landmark, is only a few years older than he was, having been built in 1885. He was born on May 15, 1897, in the Ukraine , where generations of his family had been rabbis . He was 4 when his parents immigrated to Chicago. His principal teachers were Leon Samatini, Adolph Weidig; he also studied for a year with the great Leopold Auer Perlman studied law at Northwestern and DePaul Universities, earning his doctorate in law at DePaul. He joined a law office in 1927, while also teaching at the Fine Arts Building, but soon abandoned law to perform and teach.
Ernest Bloch : Baal Shem Recordings (in alphabetical sequence of name of violinist). mischa elman (violin)Joseph Seiger (piano) Nigun only, CD, Vanguard OVC8030, 08-8030-71 The http://member.nifty.ne.jp/bloch/works/baal_shem.htm
Extractions: (1923 Cleveland, USA), Orchestrated in1939 Vidui (Contrition) Un poco lento - Calmo - Tempo I Nigun (Improvisation) Adagio non troppo - Maestoso - Poco meno lento - Tempo I Simchas Torah (Rejoicing) Allegro giocoso 2 Flutes (Piccolo) 4 Horns in F 2 Oboes 3 Trumpets in C 2 Clarinets in B and A 2 Bassoons Timpani (3) Percussion (Cymbals, Triangle) Harp
The Virtual Gramophone -- Kathleen Parlow There the young violinist performed Beethoven's violin concerto with the London byanother fourteenyear-old violin sensation, mischa elman, the Parlows sought http://www2.nlc-bnc.ca/gramophone/src/parlow-e.htm
Extractions: Kathleen Parlow - Violinist, Teacher "World's greatest woman violinist" Virtuoso violinist Kathleen Parlow was in her day ranked among the best violinists in the world, and reached prominence as one of a mere handful of musicians who represented Canada on the stages of the world. "The lady of the golden bow" was famed as a child prodigy for an unassailable technique, and went on to an international career as a concert soloist universally respected for her artistry, and later as a revered chamber musician and violin teacher. The woman who became the most respected female violinist of her time was born in Fort Calgary, Alberta in 1890. She was the only child of Charlie Parlow, a Hudson's Bay Company employee, and his wife, Minnie Parlow. Her mother took Kathleen to live in San Francisco when Kathleen was four, and they did not return to live in the nation of her birth until 1940. Mother and daughter nevertheless retained strong ties to Canada; in fact, as Kathleen's international career developed, she was often billed as "the Canadian violinist." Minnie Parlow herself played the violin, so while in California she gave her daughter a half-size violin. Kathleen received lessons at first from a cousin, Conrad Coward, a professional violin teacher; it was he who first called her a prodigy. As her immense talent declared itself, she was sent to the violin professor, Henry Holmes. Parlow's rapid ascension was partly due to being home-schooled, where she could devote more time to her instrument than she could have through normal schooling. Parlow herself believed that nature was responsible for the ease with which she mastered even the most difficult violin technique: "I have a very good hand for a fiddle. It has a big stretch. There really is such a thing as a physical aptitude for the violin, and I had it." (Hambleton, 1978)
FWST Series 2 People E- Ellison, Samuel Ellsberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward elman, mischa elman, Phillip Elmer TedEvans, Walder Eve, Arthur Evelyn (violinist) Evelyn, Judith Box http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/findaids/AR406_Series2_3.htm
Extractions: by Ng Yeuk Fan Several years ago, I was at my usual haunt - a CD shop specialising in classical and audiophile stuff, when the sales assistant-friend I had become so familiar with handed me a disc and asked me for my opinion about it. I looked at the brown ugly covers with much skepticism. It was a recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto played by Leonid Kogan on the Arlechinno label. I had already heard countless numbers of this concerto and was in possession of several rather good recordings. [I flipped on the S$300 headphones... an additional service provided by the now defunct HI-FI Corner, famed for their service and no-limit listen-before-you-buy policy at no additional costs - and about the S$300 headphones, they provided at least 12 for their listening stations in a shop the size of my bed room!!! Major shops should follow suite if they care to earn the business of audiophiles and ...] ....to my amazement - "? gasp ] - who on earth is this Leonid Kogan?" Leonid Borisovitch Kogan (1924-1982) was born in Dnepropetrosk, a small Russian town. At age ten, having learnt the basics of violin from his photographer-father who was also an amateur violonist, the family moved to Moscow so that young Kogan could receive tutoring from the famed Leopold Auer.
Historic Opera - Wills Cigarette Cards Ben Davies (tenor); Debussy (composer); Dvorak (composer); Edgar Elgar(composer); mischa elman (violinist); Sir Edward German (composer http://www.historicopera.com/series_wills_cigarettes.htm
Extractions: Historic Opera COLLECTING WILL'S CIGARETTE CARDS Will's Cigarettes Stephen Adams Emma Albani (opera) 1st # 36 Bach (composer) Michael Balfe (composer) 2nd Sir Joseph Barnby (organist) Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor/impresario) 2nd Beethoven (composer) 1st # 5 Sir William Sterndale Bennett (pianist/composer) 2nd Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) 2nd Bizet (composer) Brahms (composer) Dame Clara Butt (mezzo-soprano) Enrico Caruso (opera) 1st Chopin (composer) Coleridge-Taylor (composer) Sir Michael Costa (conductor/composer) 1st Sir Frederick Cowen (composer/conductor) Ada Crossley (contralto) 2nd # 44 Sir Ben Davies (tenor) Debussy (composer) Dvorak (composer) Edgar Elgar (composer) Mischa Elman (violinist) Sir Edward German (composer) Gounod (composer) Harry Plunket Greene (Irish singer) 2nd # 27 Grieg (composer) Marie Hall (violinist ) 2nd Hallé (composer) 2nd Handel (composer) Haydn (composer) Liza Lehmann (composer/soprano) 2nd # 33 Edwin H. Lemare (organist) # 47 Leoncavallo (composer) Jenny Lind (opera) Liszt (composer/musician) Sir Edward Lloyd (tenor) 2nd # 13 Kirkby Lunn (mezzo soprano) 2nd # 42 Edward MacDowell (composer) John McCormack (tenor) Antoinette Sterling (contralto) 2nd # 31 Sir Alex MacKenzie (composer) Sir August Manns (conductor) Mascagni (composer) 2nd # 24 Nellie Melba (opera) 1st # 41 Mendelssohn (composer) Mozart (composer) 1st Christine Nilsson (opera) 1st # 31 Offenbach (composer) Ignace Jan Paderewski (musician) Paganini (musician) Adelina Patti (opera) 1st # 32
Violinist Composers - History out of tune ( due to deafness ), though his many, many earlier recordings are prizedby almost every welleducated violinist.. mischa elman ( Odessa, 1891 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~leonid/violinist_composers.htm
Alexander Markov - Reviews Somewhere mischa elman is smiling. The New York Times 2, 4, 5 Alexander Markov, violinist;Monte Carlo Though less well remembered than such iconic figures as http://www.alexandermarkov.com/reviews.htm
Extractions: "The most exciting violin recital this listener has heard in quite some time. Mr. Markov's playing is marked by a Romantic effusion that comes so naturally it never seems vulgar or affected. He seems to have stepped directly out the past: although he is a young man - he plays like an old 78 recording come to life, without the pop and sizzle of shellac. Mr. Markov scoops and slides with an emotional intensity that has all but vanished from contemporary violin playing. Somewhere Mischa Elman is smiling."
Poster Sized Photographs Of Great 20th Century Violinists images of Jascha Heifetz, mischa elman, Efrem Zimbalist and Fritz Kreisler as youngmen just beginning their illustrious careers. The violinist's name appears http://www.the-forum.com/EPHEMERA/violin.htm
Conversation With Natalia Gutman I also studied for four years with my grandfather, a violinist who studiedwith Leopold Auer. Auer also taught Jascha Heifetz and mischa elman. http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/gutman.htm
Competition In the audience, seated side by side, were mischa elman, who had already establishedhis own reputation as a violinist, and Artur Rubinstein, the pianist. http://www.wardell.org/jotd/classic/famous_folk/competition.htm
Extractions: Competition Jascha Heifetz was a child prodigy and still a young boy when he made his triumphant musical debut on the violin. In the audience, seated side by side, were Mischa Elman, who had already established his own reputation as a violinist, and Artur Rubinstein, the pianist. As the recital continued, and as Jascha played the violin like an angel, Mischa Elman writhed in increasing discomfort. Finally he leaned over to Rubinstein and said, "Isn't it terribly hot here?" Calmly, Rubinstein replied, "Not for pianists ..." -A Final Thought ... "The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notesah, that is where the art resides." Artur Schnabel (18821951), German-born U.S. pianist. Quoted in: Chicago Daily News (11 June 1958)
Jewish Violinists Adolf Brodsky; Ferdinand David; mischa elman; Aldo Ferraresi 3; Carl Flesch; Pamela calledSamuel Severin Kreisler), a physician and amateur violinist from Krakow http://www.jinfo.org/Violinists.html
- Jamesarts For example, the violinist mischa elman had performed at Lewisohn Stadiumwith Sternklar a mere fifteen years after Gershwin's death. http://www.jamesarts.com/AZRHAPNOTE.htm
Extractions: THE Rhapsody in Blue : WHAT GERSHWIN REALLY WROTE The Original Manuscript for The Rhapsody in Blue I recently asked the contemporary American composer/pianist Avraham Sternklar what current opinions are regarding George Gershwin's influence on music composition. He responded that today's composers, like Gershwin, search for a tangible language to represent their time that is a fusion of the mind and heart along with life experiences. He went on to say that although little is written in textbooks about Gershwin's direct influence, today's composers are separated from him by only a few generations. For example, the violinist Mischa Elman had performed at Lewisohn Stadium with Sternklar a mere fifteen years after Gershwin's death. Elman had attended the Aeolian Hall concert when Gershwin premiered the Rhapsody in Blue . Subliminally, he had absorbed something from that experience and communicated it in his playing with Sternklar, who subsequently brought Elman's impact to his own audiences, and so on. This continuum of information from the elders to the next generation is a part of music history that is real but not readily definable in words. Sadly, in the case of Gershwin, there has been a very small window of opportunity to study his actual work. No Gershwin "school" ever emerged despite his enormous following. With this in mind as we close the 20th Century, we are reminded of the renewed interest in the recapture of authenticity in many of the arts. There seems to be a "fin de siecle" celebration, a revisionist vogue if you will, of America's classic popular music and popular classical music. It seems only fitting, therefore, to re-examine the most visible and famous of all American compositions, the
