Warhorse Parade
AN KUBINIS hddiing trom 1LYA on ~"" Saturday night was the work of an expert. Clean fingering, lush tone, always in tune even in the ostentatious doublestopping, Jan Rubini gave you the impression that manipulating a violin was, to him, mere child’s play. To demonstrate this luxurious virtuosity, a sort of musical marshmallow, Mr. Rubini trotted out a field of spavined warhorses, from some gipsy music by Hubay and Massenet’s "Thais" Meditation to the "Flight of the Bumble-bee." As all these same steeds are regularly paraded on records with Mr. Kreisler, Mr. Heifetz or some other displaying his equestrianism, Mr. Rubini was hard put to it to add any new graces to their paces. Acting on the principle that it is better to be sweet than sorry, he liberally sprinkled each piece with sugar. The violinist himself introduced the music, and most agreeably too; but to his final "And now. I'll say good-night to you-to you-and especially to you"-I could only make feeble mental reply: "Good-night, especially to you, good-night.’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 11
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171Warhorse Parade New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 11
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