Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Chicago, through no miles of sleet and snow, drove Manager Leon Perssion and one of the finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window...
Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste and all-round performance, Fiddler Szigeti gets the votes of most critics, fiddlers, composers, fastidious concert-fanciers. The 15 years, on & off, that Szigeti has fiddled in the U. S. have given him a taste for such U. S. diversions as listening to swing and the radio. Last week radio "jaywalkers"-as he calls dial-twiddlers-had a chance to hear Szigeti...
Joseph Szigeti was born 48 years ago in Budapest. Fiddler Jenö Hubay taught him; Fiddler Joseph Joachim, the 19th Century's greatest, pronounced him a comer. He made his debut at 13. Szigeti has spent most of his musical life in London and Paris-where he had to leave most of his possessions in a bombproof shelter...
...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
...honor of genial, grizzled Viennese Fritz Kreisler, The Bohemians, some 1,000 classical musicians, sat down to dinner at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, put on a glittering musical evening, topped it off by confronting Fiddler Kreisler with Fiddler Albert Spalding decked out in mustache and grey bangs, looking wonderfully like the guest of the evening, and sawing at one of his tunes with confusingly Kreislerian dexterity...