Mecca for Moderns

The Louisville Orchestra is fond of new music, has commissioned and performed 24 new works in five years. Last week it prepared for the biggest commissioning program in U.S. musical history: an additional 46 new compositions a year for four years. After performance by the symphony, the scores will be recorded (by Columbia) for subscription sale and distribution to broadcasters. The Rockefeller Foundation has agreed to put up the money ($400,000). Louisville's first big job will be to look over the musical scene, set the most gifted composers to work. Top fee: $1,000.

Sequel in Jerusalem

In Jerusalem last week, Violinist Jascha Heifetz once more ignored Israeli threats and warnings, played a work by the late German Composer Richard Strauss, just as he had done in Haifa and Tel Aviv (TIME, April 20). Moments after the concert, in front of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, a hooligan stepped up to Heifetz, struck him a blow on his right hand with an iron bar, and ran. The same evening, with an aching bow hand, Heifetz played the fourth concert of his Israel tour to heavy applause (Strauss was not scheduled). Then he called off his final concert (Strauss scheduled), and flew to Rome.

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