During last year’s Utah County Suzuki Workshop for our students, Dr. Terry Durbin told the story of how Humoresque was discovered by the famous violinist Fritz Kreisler. He had gone to visit a dying Dvorak and noticed a stack of papers nearby. Dvorak had asked him to destroy them. Kreisler noticed Humoresque in the stack and asked if he could keep it. Dvorak agreed.
Several of my students, as well as my son, are currently working on Humoresque in Book 3. This is my all-time favorite recording of Humoresque. Kreisler has such passion in every note. This is worth listening to even if you don’t have any students working on the piece right now.
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