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...vital today as it was during the '30s. But Odets' treatment, though often dramatic, was always prefabricated, and at times now it seems both dated and flat. The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness. Joe's violent racing-car death merely adds a crude exclamation point. John Garfield's Joe, moreover, never for a moment suggests a guy with music in his heart, let alone in his fingers. As staged by Odets, the production, which...
...semi-grotesques, not Joe but some of Joe's trainers and relatives, who seem most alive. It is not where Odets tries to be poetic but where, in hurried scribbles and scrawls, he forgets to try, that he brings a kind of impassioned feeling to life itself. His violin music is mostly pretentious, his trumpet notes today seem shrill; where he seems uniquely vivid and vibrant is on a mouth organ he pulls out of his pocket...
Next stop for Viviane and Violin Concerto: the U.S. première in Los Angeles, with Chávez conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, later this month...
...spaces, and orchestrated throughout with all the colors of a Mexican scrape. Some listeners found it too long (45 minutes); there were eight movements, plus a long cadenza which demanded, and received, much from its performer, but added little to the concerto. Once Viviane halted calmly to tune her violin, while the orchestra played on, and drew a preoccupied look from Chávez . But even so, the concerto was a three-curtain-call success...
Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein,* 71, who as a child used to make "a lot of noise" on the violin, then turned from play to study and became one of the world's great musicologists, a ranking authority on Mozart and his works; of a heart ailment; in El Cerrito, Calif. In 1933, Einstein saw the handwriting on Hitler's wall, fled to Britain, in 1939 came to the U.S., where his success in his specialty led him finally to refer to Hitler ironically as "my greatest benefactor...