Grisha Golubov plays Debussy's 'La fille aux
cheveux de lin' on the violin, with a reduced
form of the piano solo as accompaniment. Worse
than this is his drawling and mooning. The
girl with the flaxen hair has lost her schoolgirl
complexion. Worse than this is the dragging
of the tune where Debussy didn't put it: The result is that the authentic entry of the
tune a few bars later becomes tautology instead
of a pleasant surprise out of the blue (DB 1666).
The reference to Sandler was not made in
scorn. Mr. Sandler has chosen his line of country
and sticks to it; and of all the good and bad
things that can be done therein he is prone to
choose the good. Granted that a pot-pourri of
arrangements from various composers is per-
missible, he sets about making it in a knowledg-
able sort of way. Of the six ' Sandler Minuets '
on DX 759 not one is perverted in character. If
the Mozart example (from the E flat Symphony)