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...almost too much for one Pole in the audience. He rushed backstage, burst into Rubinstein's dressing room, and began hugging and kissing the startled pianist, exclaiming in Polish: "That was the greatest thing I ever heard!" When the kissing stopped, he introduced himself as Henryk Szeryng, a 32-year-old music teacher at the National University of Mexico. Intrigued at finding a countryman so far from home, Rubinstein inquired: "Do you play at all?" Yes, his compatriot admitted, "I love to play the violin." Rubinstein forthwith invited the violinist to his hotel room for an impromptu audition. Recalls...
...last week Composer Lees heard his notes turned to music. Violinist Henryk Szeryng and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed Lees's Violin Concerto in two New York concerts, and its excellence, together with the skimpy monetary rewards he can expect, make a very good case for giving Lees and other gifted composers like him a never-ending grant to keep them going. In an age when almost no composers are turning their talents to the delicate mysteries of the violin concerto, Lees has written a small masterpiece. If all goes well and it is played a half-dozen times...
...which the adagio percolates a single theme, refining it in major and minor statements. The minor key takes over in the excited cross-rhythms of the rondo finale, where "all hell breaks loose," says Lees happily. Lees's music is devilishly hard to play. After performing it, Szeryng pronounced the concerto "the most difficult piece I've ever tackled...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...