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dated April 24, 1953: Mehta's Violin Charms Madras

Father Basenach, S.J., of the Loyola College, wrote: Mehil Mehta's performance at the Madras Museum Theatre on the 21st night was of great distinction. In the Bach Concerto each movement came through as a constant play of light and shade without obscuring the larger outline of the musical thought, in execution. It was sensitive, affectionate and fully persuasive. That the soloist not merely understands music, but feels it in the blood, he showed in Beethoven's Spring Sonata. Some may think that this work requires little virtuosity; the score looks so simple and facile; yes, but it needs an unusual degree of eloquence in the sheer tone of the instrument and such we heard from him. How well Mehta revealed the dignified beauty and tenderness of the Second Movement! And in the third, he just whirled us away in a glory of sunlit gaiety. As good luck would have it, the strings snapped twice during that Sonata and so we had the joy of hearing the First Movement thrice and with increasing pleasure.

The third major item in the programme was Max Bruch's Concert. This demands plenty of bravure and brilliant violinistic display, Mehta's rendering of the difficult work was quite magisterial.

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