Max Pollikoff

Max Pollikoff (1904 - 1984) was an American classical music violinist who created the ''Music in Our Time'' Series at the

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. The Series commissioned and premiered hundreds of new works. In 1923, when Pollikoff was 19, he made his first appearance in New York, playing at the Aeolian Hall. He won critical praise as "a violinist of considerable interest and promise." He played works by

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, Chopin and his own ''Legende.'' In 1972 the American Music Center awarded his a Letter of Distinction. Pollikoff was born in

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