Show J Jascha ascha Heifetz violinist is corning comins to the Salt SalL Lake theatre inn I Saturday evening February 28 I I s 73 i S ly p I THE Amer American idea of ot a conserva consena JL I tory tor of at music Is not quite quito what I tho the term expresses in most big big- European European Euro- Euro cities cRies Here almost an any music j I studio that employs two piano teachers I and a violin professor can call Itself a a conservatory conser Not ot so in Paris or Petrograd This point was strongly brought out In a recent Interview with I the tho violinist Jascha Heifetz who ho gradI grad- grad graduated graduated I I from the tho ro royal l In InI i I Petro Petrograd grad at the ago of ot 1 13 r I To begin with one has to pass a stiff examination for admittance Naturally only tho the most gifted students over ever hope to enter and the they are arc subjected subjected subjected sub sub- to rigid tests After Atter playing before tho the faculty which consisted always of or the greatest musicians In nUBS Russia la the successful candidates are enrolled but not alone for Tor or the tho study stud of or music They attend classes In regular reg reg- ular ilar school subjects and an tn idea of tho the unusual typo type of or students student can be gained when we learn that Heifetz who is now only onh 18 i is as well wen acquainted t with ith ancient history languages higher mathematics chemistry and physics as any college student in America Every student of or the Petrograd conservatory conservatory con con- ator must learn violin piano plana organ theory theon of oC music composition orchestration and ensemble playing Frequently some sorpe 80 e of at them study stu-d stu three or four Instruments but of or course one is their particular aim There are month monthly examinations which Invariably weed out tho lazy ones or those whose talents t lents fall fail to develop clop sufficiently |