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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor (Jascha Heifetz, Sir Thomas Beecham, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Seraphim). Although Heifetz could sometimes be showy in the exercise of a most prodigious violin technique, his tone never lost its radiant silkiness even in the most difficult music. In these two performances (dating, from 1947 and 1949 respectively), the breathtaking Heifetz sound profits from Sir Thomas Beecham's restraining influence...
...tradition crisis to a head. The ticket holders had simply heard enough new music. At the end of the concert at which the walkouts occurred, the management committee decided to drop the Schoenberg. To replace it, Violinist Zeitlin chose a piece well calculated to mollify his tradition-minded audience, Mendelssohn's melodious Violin Concerto. "I approve of the decision," said Mehta on the phone from Los Angeles 10,000 miles away, "but I am not happy about...
...Mendelssohn. Both the change, and the apparently unexceptionable choice, set off something like a national debate. Editors were swamped with letters, and one subscriber threatened to whistle during the playing of Mendelssohn. Orchestra posters in Jerusalem were defaced with scrawled messages: "Boo to Mendelssohn." Music critics naturally were all for Schoenberg. Only Zeitlin seemed pleased to see such excitement over music. "The whole country is up in arms on the side of Mendelssohn or Schoenberg!" he said. As critical pressure mounted, the orchestra announced a compromise: it would give an extra free performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto...
Alert and active as ever, Cellist Pablo Casals celebrated his 94th birthday in San Juan, P.R., by joining Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski in a performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor. Rhapsodized Schneider: "Don Pablo played it as beautifully as he did ten years ago-no, 40 years ago." Later, at the official mansion of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Ferre, it was Casals' turn to hear other musicians give a recital in his honor. "It was all wonderful music," he said. Casals was eminently qualified to be a critic; included in the selections...
...Despite the fact that it was a vote to send a representative," said Mendelssohn, "a majority of the House that voted on the issue was against...