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Efrem Zimbalist built a career as one of the era's leading concert violinists, giving the American premiere of Glazunov's Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony in 1911 and continuing to perform into his eighties. He also composed an opera and several orchestral works, but his lasting influence came as director of the Curtis Institute of Music from 1941 to 1968, where his students included violinists Aaron Rosand, Oscar Shumsky and Joseph Silverstein.