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Joining her for the first part of the recital was violinist David Hurwitz. After a nicely balanced performance of a Bach aria with obbligato, they presented Gustav Holst's Four Songs for Voice and Violin. Holst wrote these to please a friend who said she liked to sing as she fiddled, but on presenting them to her the composer was told, "I can only hum when I play." As long as two performers are necessary, Holst could have wished none better than Hurwitz and Miss Smith to present his simple, modal settings...
Prokofiev: PianoConcerto No.3; Violin Concerto No. I (Emil Gilels, piano; David Oistrakh, violin; U.S.S.R. State Radio Orchestra conducted by Kiril Kondrashin; Westminster). The modern master of melodic and harmonic surprises at his popular best, played by instrumental masters who know just how every phrase should be turned. The results of Soviet recording techniques are a bit shrill, but clear...
...Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz; Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl; Victor). Miklos Rozsa, best known as a movie composer (Spellbound, A Double Life), writes music that is recognizably Hungarian-after Bartok and Kodaly made the style familiar-and also, by some strange chemistry of the ear, Hollywoodian. Its message is easygoing, its orchestration competently conservative. The concerto was written for Heifetz, who helped out with parts of it, and who plays it as if he had written...
Neville's performance noticeably hurt what is a kind of violin concerto of a play, with its alternations of the martial and the lyrical, of action and reaction, of brass-choired public spectacles and sad-fiddled private woes. The big scenes were for the most part handsomely played; in the rise and fall of Kings there were actors who could do rich justice to the king's English, and the Bard's, and Director Michael Benthall contrived much regal flow and movement...
...same rate, and the result is that the school "molds little minds in the same groove, standardizes the children and stifles initiative." For the last month Mrs. Schoenheit has been giving her little Mary lessons in writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done very well under my program." William Cheney has another set of complaints. For one thing, says he, "the school board insists that we have no authority over our daughter Steffanie once the child has been left at the school grounds." Besides, "standards...