[T1S1] his birth in Vienna to parents of Russian and Czechoslovakian background; family's immigration to the United States in 1922; they settle in Chicago; his father's musical ability; begins study at age five; musical studies at Chicago High School; his retirement from Pittsburgh Symphony at age seventy to teach violin; his first professional job with Illinois Symphony; training at Chicago Symphony and Stevens College Symphony; effect of the depression on musicians; typical salaries at that time; playing with the Chicago Symphony on the Carnation Milk Radio Program, Percy Faith conducting; becomes concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony in 1939; marriage; birth of two children; returns to Chicago to play for NBC Orchestra; plays with the Indianapolis Symphony, CBS Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony from 1943 to 1954.
