Two months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian— taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci.
Louis Persinger's career holds no breathless tales of splendor or of revolution as did his aged predecessor's. He was born in Rochester,...
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