<P>As to the concert programming, it has becoming more and more colorful,and a good example was shown in the recital held by Takumi Kubota:it began in Arvo Parto's "Fratres", next appeared Mozart's Sonata K.304 and Prokofiev's Sonata No,1, after the intermission, Thuille's "Conversio", Mozart K.378, and "Le Grand Tango" by Astre Piazzolla were played. Two Austrian composers, Mozarts and Thuille, one Estonian, another Russian, the other Argentinean. Ten years ago, no one had an idea of this sort of programming but a few innovators. Both of the last two works, Parto's and Piazzolla's were introduced by Gidon Kremer, weren't they ? Without him, the newwave in violin music might over ten years be late in coming.It will not be too much to say that every modern violinist owes pretty much to this innovator, Gidon Kremer.</P>