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Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians took a laborer's view of the case. One of those fired was Viola Player Calman Fleisig, of the orchestra's union committee. Said Fleisig: "Mainly a labor question." Upshot at week's end: an impasse on negotiation of contracts for the entire orchestra for next year...
Mozart: Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (Budapest Quartet with M. Katims, viola; Columbia; 8 sides). A fine ensemble continues working the richest musical seams...
While the famed Budapest Quartet played compositions by Schumann and Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...
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...
Dvorak: Quintet in E Flat Major (Prague String Quartet with Richard Kosderka, second viola; Victor; eight sides). Czech Dvorak's U.S. visit in the 1890s inspired this and other "American" works (From the New World, "American" Quartet, etc.), in which Negro and Indian themes are always on the verge of doing a polka. Good first recording...