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===American debut===

In January and February 1931, the quartet made its first [[United States]] tour. Reviews were fairly good, but financially the tour was unrewarding. Arguments about ''Spitzen'' vs. ''Springbogen'' bowing and other matters persisted, and relations became difficult.  Then in 1932, Hauser wanted to play some concerts with [[Alice Ehlers]]. The quartet refused to allow this deviation from the rules; there was an argument and he resigned.<ref>Brandt pp 50&ndash;53</ref> He emigrated to [[Jerusalem]], formed a quartet and founded the Palestine Music Conservatory. He helped eminent Polish-Jewish concert violinist [[Bronisław Huberman]] rescue many Jews from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany, and was instrumental in founding the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. In 1940 he moved to the U.S., teaching first at [[Bard College]] in upper [[New York (state)|New York State]], and later at the [[Juilliard School of Music]]. Hauser returned to [[Israel]] in 1960, where he died in 1978 at the age of 84.<ref name=B62/>