Word: sigi
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Where, for instance, is the veering frenzy of Freud's early years, the huge ambition thrusting out of old shtetl terrors and the hidden struggle with a Jewish mother who called him "mein goldener Sigi" till the day she died? As Stone presents him, the young Freud is just another nice, bright Jewish boy, "my son the doctor," and his long and lust-tormented engagement to Martha Bernays is a Victorian idyl of sweet reason and unspattered upholstery...
...Sigi: Oh Martha, I love you so dearly...
Martha: I love you too, Sigi...
...puzzling case, young Sigi. He was one of those comets in the musical sky that turn out to be meteors, burning out and falling below the horizon. Born in Sofia, he studied under Bulgaria's foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...
Whatever became of Sigi? Alexis knows. He is Sigi-now a seasoned 39, sadder but wiser, a vigorous survivor of a career gone sour, a revenant from the limbo of semiretirement...