The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 112

THE COURIER-JOURNAL TIMES, LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1967 V7TTII? FROM THE GHETTO, A GIFT CIVIC CENTER 4 FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS This THURSDAY, FRIDAY SATURDAY! Mischa Elman: Fiddler in a Class by Himself 4 Performances Evenings ot 8:30 Saturday Matinee at TICKETS NOW ON SALE! By HAROLD C. SCHONBERG ft'ew York Timet. Newt Service ALBEE'S BEST PLAY' a beautiful play filled 'with humor and compassion and touched with poetry." --Join Chapman, N.Y. Daily Nwi II Mischa Elman, 76, died at his home in New York Wednesday.

NEW YORK Mischa Elman, short, somewhat rotund, bald, energetic, would come bustling out on stage in that indescribably cocky walk of his. He would look over the audience with wise eyes that had seen audiences of all kinds for 30, 40, 50 years. Then he would tuck his Stradivarius under his chin. When he did that, the instrument seemed an extension of himself, welded to his body. This is true of all natural instrumentalists.

There is never a feeling of strain or effort, and Elman above all violinists except Fritz Kreisler played with ease. When he brought that sturdy bow arm down, the hall was filled with the Elman sound, and audiences especially in the early days of his career would promptly go into hysteria. The Elman sound. It was full, rich, sweet, throbbing. On the string his instrument sounded like a cello.

In the up- per positions of the string it was a platinum flute. No violinist of the century, and undoubtedly none in history, had this kind of sheer, sensual sound. Elman never was one of the philosophers of music, one of the deep thinkers, one of the learned musicians. But he had something that many of his more learned colleagues would have given anything for, and that was the ability to play the violin with such expression and sweetness that criticism was disarmed. A Gypsy-Like Approach It followed that Elman was at his best in the romantic and virtuosic pieces of the violin literature.

His specialty above all was the Tchaikovsky Concerto. He played it with sweep and grandeur and, in the last movement, with a gypsy like approach, full of slides, changes in rhythm and subtle rubatos. Of course there was nothing wrong with the way he played the Beethoven or Brahms concertos, but musicians were in general agreement that in such works as the Tchaikovsky, Elman, was in(a class by himself, His approach, to. the yioUn was something impossible to duplicate. It was quite possible that he himself did not know how' he achieved his effects, Violin playing is a function of many things bow-arm pressures, vibrato, finger shifts and so on.

Elman, from his babyhood, apparently coordinated all elements with-out thinking about how he idid them. He used a fasts' narrow vibrato that lent unusual intensity to his enormous tone; but other violinists, especially in the early part of the century, also used BALANCE it JS it PHILIP DORTHA KATHLEEN BOURNEUF DUCKWORTH MAGU1RE MAS SGLNFIDER liiiM RIIMAN WHJM VAlURfiXIE MTBFX a fast, narrow vibrato and could not. begin to come near the Elman Tone. When he appeared on the scene, it was immediately realized that something new had come to violin playing. Violinists up to that time were a refined group, in strong contrast to the earthy Elman.

Judging from records of Sarasate, and of violinists of the Belgian school, a restrained vibrato and rather small (though exquisitely poised) tone were the rule. JEugen Ysaye, the great Belgian violinist, established a perpetual vibrato, but it remained for Elman to make violin playing the sensuous thing it can be, and he represents the early Russian school at its greatest. A Legend to Jeivg Elman thus was not only a legend to He also was a legend to the people of his own race. He was a Jewish boy from Russia who had made good. He had played before the czar himself, he had conquered Europe, he had become fabulously wealthy.

Small wonder that Jewish mothers all over Russia and America saw. iit, Elman a way for their own children to' escape the ghetto. For well over a generation, Jewish mothers were pushing a half-sized violin at their children. "Spiel, mein kind, spiel." And it is a fact that after. Elman came a succession of great Jewish violin virtuosos.

Elman owned two" rare violins, one a 17J7 Stradivarius that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte. The other is a 200-year-old Amati, presented to him as a child by a Russian nobleman who heard him play, This was a gift greater than it seemed. For Mischa Elman was a boy from the ghetto, and anti-Semitism in the area around where. Elman spent his boyhood, was virulent. Fortunately for him, even bigots were willing to listen to a gifted child violinist, but the boy's life was studded with indignities.

"A Delicate Wan, -r in Guaranteed TV Audience As Rate Base? author weaves anol searing emotion. QT a Thea(r Guij sulisaiption Show) Evenings Orch. $5.00 Bale. $4.00, $3.00 Matin Orch. $4.50 Bale.

$3.50, $2.50 TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT THE BROWN THEATRE (Hours 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.) Telephone 587-8627 J- it' I Nvv UNIVERSITY of KENTUCKY SCHOOL of FINE ARTS 1967 FESTIVAL of the ARTS AN ADVERTISING executive has suggested an -entirely new basis for the payment sponsors, make to television networks for their programs. He suggests a "guaranteed-rirculation" basis. If the network and the sponsor think they will get 9 million homes and only get 6 Edward Grey, vice president of an advertising agency in New York, thinks he should get a reduction from the network. The prices now differ according to expected size; of; audience the show will attract, and also according to the time of day it is on the air.

Some daytime shows sell a minute of advertising time for as little as $5,000. Some nighttime shows and the big football games run into the $70,000 a commercial minute. That means a one-minute Commercial telecast one time. Neither NBC nor CBS had any comment about Grey's theory. A spokesman at ABC, however, said nhat Grey should remember that if he got a reduction for an audience smaller than expected, he should expect to pay a bonus for an audience than expected.

6aid the man at happens about as often as the smaller audience -h" 'Ml Lndd (2 Si presents -9 "The Good Woman of April 5- -FOR FUN tout EXERCISE EVERY NITE-EXCEPT MON. Setzuan" UK Dent, of WATINEE SUNDAY 2 P.M. FONTAINE fERRY Theatre Arts. 8:30 Guignol Theatre April 17 Actors Theatre of Louis-1 ville 2:30 8:30 (2 bills) 1 ROLLER RINK W. MARKtT" WESTERN PkrWV.

SHOE SKATES SOP RENT PAIJTY KATES -778 G02J Associated Prst Guignol Theatre Violinist Mischa Elman, who died Wednesday in New York at age 76, is shown in his New York apartment with his wife. April 19 Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 8:30 Memorial Coliseum April 21 Lex. Philharmonic and Lex. Singers perform1 Beethoven's Ninth Sym. 8:30 Memorial Political Conventions May Be More Colorful WHETHER or not this summer's political conventions "will be' shOwri in color depends upon whether they are held in the same now appears.

Chances are that both parties will choose the same city for JJiis reason, New1 ruesf' makingrtereyision more fluid nd watchable.jare prospect SATURDAY-APRIL CONVENTION CENTERli aCtOKS THEATRE North Seventh St. JU 4-1205 Nljhli Tu.i. throujh Sat. 1:30) tun. 7:30 3tJO; lot.

2:30 a street car named desire No On Can Satd After Curtain Tim lax Offic Hrl. 10-f Daily, cpt Manday coliseum India Film Censors Approve Showing Of 'Dr! Zhimso' April 22 "An Evening's 2:30 aammmmmmmmmmm ineaire for all coliseum events available in Louisville at Brown Theatre Ticket Office, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., April 3-14. Mail orders should be sent to: Festival of the Arts, Box Office University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. 40506. Phone 258-9000; ext.

3200. Include check payable to UK. Tickets will be sold at the door when available. Also write for complete Festival information. vaaaaow mu-wm CIVIC CENTER FOR FUN! ONE WEEK! Monday, April 10 thru April 15 Monday thru Thurs.

8:30 P.M. Friday Sat. 7:30 P.M. 10:00 P.M. ALL New 1967 Edition! 5V Ji 'In NEW DELHI (AP) India's board of film censors has decided that, with a little trimming, the American movie "Dr.

Zhivago" may be shown to Indian audiences without offense to the Soviet Union. i The Nobel prizewinning novel by Boris Pasternak has been selling freely on the Indian market for several years. It is generally understood that the foreign ministry's fears of Soviet displeasure were responsible for seven months' delay in releasing the film and for the cutting of 25 feet from it. The Sunday Statesman says a similar feeling in 1965 led the information ministry to insist that the title of a James Bond movie be changed from "From Russia With Love" to "From 007 With Love." Several months ago a special showing of "Dr. Zhivago" was arranged for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Nothing further was heard on the matter until the board of censors announced that the film would be shown in India, IN JAMES BROWN His 18 Pc. Orchestra cVwes- tickets on sale now bunk interest Per Annum rTIFFiS Record Store- 3094H -t III (RKtrvtd- 43? 1 Adult Entertainment DIRECT FROM B'MY baggy-pants comedians, exotics squealing chorines and all ANN COBIO THIS WAS TT MEREXin "gjjj" yl On Historic Steamboat 7 on time deposits held only 3 months guaranteed 3 full years PUBLIC CMJISES uw SATURDAY, APRIl'15, 2-5 P.M.. Upstream Past The Islands SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2-5 P.M. Downstream Through McAlpine Locks (Onjy at Bank of Louisville) Interest Compounded Quarterly Or, interest Checks Mailed Quarterly Available Sor or months, 1 year, 2 years or 3 years Cashable on any 3-month anniversary A Musical Satire complete with a cast of 35 and full orchestra "This Was Burlesque" broke all records in its Louisville date last season Don't Miss It! tiiLi or louisvaii ai avaiiaiii for arivafa parties, ma.ting.s. A number d.iirasl.

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