1409692544795: In 1918, when I was two, my parents smuggled me in... 1409692705710: 1409693067218: Once a year at the Fairmont Hotel, Anker’s budding... 1409693248514: Of the many reasons I have to hold Persinger in lo... 1409762573022: As might be supposed, Parisian concerts widened an... 1409762770913: One night we heard the gypsies entertaining the di... 1409763062934: Apart from my own concert and recital, there were ... 1409763453792: These years of my becoming acquainted with the vio... 1409763755009: Before the United States officially sanctioned a n... 1409764054028: Dazzling as Heifetz was, I felt confident that my ... 1409764414168: […] the most important was the idea that one day I... 1409764711836: Ysaÿe’s house stood on a tree-lined boulevard in t... 1409765134534: I recall the day he sat at an old upright piano an... 1409765295755: A lesson was an inspiration, not a stage reached i... 1409765445844: He had the most expressively varied vibrato and th... 1409765788538: With my family I attended a concert given by the B... 1409766058088: Such a way was his [Enesco’s] sending me, in 1932,... 1409776369231: […] at Palm Beach I heard grass-roots jazz for the... 1409776523716: […] I know I am greatly in Toscanini’s debt. His o... 1409776932969: Heifetz was a figure aloof – in his distinguished ... 1409777136000: One day Dorati invited several friends, myself amo... 1409777357035: I could never imagine as a musician that any other... 1409777599167: The reopening of the Opéra, the first chance of pl... 1409779696000: My greatest pleasure, of course, was to make conta... 1409779928184: But neither then nor later could the run of approv... 1409780182745: I recall an occasion in New York where Princess Ca... 1409780443543: Casals was in his seventy-first year, revered for ... 1409780555979: In default of documentary evidence that Bach had H... 1409949467010: When Diana, Marcel Gazelle and I arrived at Johann... 1409949794984: … everyone stood to sing what in other circumstanc... 1409950016671: There was in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra ... 1409950239598: I was introduced to Grappelli through his recordin... 1409950784001: In New York in the early 1970s, Diana and I attend... 1409954431583: I recall noting as a child that even a less than f... 1409954625760: 1409954834011: A month or so before I was to start a South Americ... 1409954986573: To offset Beethoven in Guatemala there was, some t... 1409955181878: When I was first in Paris, in 1926-1927, I attende... 1409955333759: No twentieth-century musician could help but appre... 1409955744880: Since the Second World War the Russian contingent ... 1409955919939: Meanwhile countless other festivals took root in d... 1409956060742: I have always adored the music of the Strausses, f... 1409956274089: A musician playing back a recorded “take” is in mu... 1409956408340: Alberto Lysy was sixteen or seventeen when he came... 1409956598508: After the visit to the director’s office demanded ... 1409956796960: One evening after a concert given by that Soviet r... 1409957035431: Their first public appearance was at nearby Croydo... 1409957197470: In our efforts to produce rounded musicians, we en... | 