With the New Concerto for Mirror [Stravinsky] 12/26/31

The score of Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra has at last reached America. The work had its first performance in Berlin last October, and was broadcast through the most modernistic of all radio-stations-the Rundfunke (literally, a round spark) of Germany. Listeners-in and professional critics recorded their impressions. As usual, these impressions ranged from ultra-superlatives to infra-invectives, through the entire spectrum of critical adjectives. And there were some who, despite many precedents to the contrary, still believe that Stravinsky is perpetrating a gigantic hoax, deliberately and with malice aforethought misleading the public, the critics and his disciples alike.