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Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). Bearded Brahms at his most robust; performance, perfect; recording, flawless...
...mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails of Carnegie Hall's sacred cows. Thomson on Fiddler Jascha Heifetz...
...faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...