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Original Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 270 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. [270] pages with many illustrations, facsimiles, and portraits, as well as dozens of pictorial advertisements. OCLC 233655136 Text in English and Hebrew. The 20th-century produced a wealth of talented Jewish violinists. Although the list includes such luminaries as Heifetz and Perlman, the most extraordinary may be the Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman. Huberman posessed superb technique, but his legacy goes far beyond that. In the early 1930s, Huberman saw the situation for Jews deteriorating in Europe. So he recruited the finest Jewish musicians to form an orchestra, the Palestine Symphony, later renamed the Israel Philharmonic. This book gathers together the programme information and background of the 1982 festival honoring the centenary of Huberman's birth. A remarkable festival for the violin and orchestra as Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic began the week of concerts in which 15 violin concertos and other pieces were performed by seven world-class violinists. The week's six concerts included major works for violin by Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Bartok and Mozart. Bach and Beethoven. Referring to the concentration of talent that had been assembled for the concert series, Mr. Mehta joked: ''We're going to call it 'Star Wars. ' '' Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman and Shlomo Mintz opened the series at the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, holding the audience spellbound. They were followed by Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Henryk Szeryng and Pinchas Zukerman. This commemorative concert week become a celebration of Israel itself, after the grinding months of war in Lebanon. In the opening concert, Mr. Stern and Mr. Mintz played the Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins and string orchestra (S. 1043) , and Mr. Perlman followed, after the intermission, with Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra (Op. 61) . Nathan Mishori, writing in the newspaper Ha'aretz, praised ''the rare combination of the rich and highly tense music of the elderly Isaac Stern and the confident and pleasant music of the young Shlomo Mintz. '' Mr. Perlman, ending the Beethoven, was inundated with bravos and applause that swelled into a standing ovation. Rarely has such enthusiasm been seen in an audience here. As an encore he played a virtuoso piece, Paganini's Caprice No. 1. Some Delicate Diplomacy. The violinists playing in the final evening's concert are Isaac Stern, Pinhas Zuckerman, Yitzhak Perlman, Ida Hoendel, Shlomo Mintz and Ivy Gitlis. A seventh violinist to have taken part in tonight's final festive concert was Henrik Schering, whose father a Warsaw businessman, had paid the fares of many Jewish members of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra in 1936 to go to Palestine to help found the new Palestine Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its first guest conductor, Arturo Toscanini. Schering left last Friday at the invitation of the Mexican government to play at the ceremonial swearing-in of the new Mexican President. [Main source: WORLD-CLASS VIOLINISTS ADORN FESTIVAL IN ISRAEL By David K. Shipler, New York Times, Dec. 15, 1982] .; Middle East Studies, Music and Performing Arts, Most Recent Listing.