Jascha Heifetz performs Camille Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted by Alfred Newman. This sequence, an excerpt from Archie Mayo’s They Shall Have Music, released in 1939, is believed to be the only surviving sound footage in which Newman, who became 20th Century Fox’s music director in 1940, can be seen conducting a piece of classical music:
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