Concertino
for trumpet and symphony orchestra

Joseph Kaminski, violinist and composer, born in Odessa in 1903 and a resident of Tel-Aviv since 1937, a son of the famous actress Esther Rachel Kaminski, has composed orchestral and chamber music, and works for piano. The Concertino for solo trumpet and orchestra is his most original composition and was written in a humorous spirit The first movement is described Un Poco Vivaldi, its theme being a travesty of the main subject from the: most hackneyed of Antonio Vivaldi's violin Concertos; around the parodistic quotation of the theme Kaminski builds a movement full of spirited development and he follows this with an Improvisazione, a slow and lyrical movement which is heralded in, as well as closed, by the solo instrument with a cadenza that has a liturgical touch and is duly answered by the orchestral "choir" with an "amen"-like response. The Finale, a boisterous Tarantella, follows without interruption.