Word: szeryng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart...
...forever dashing off to the concert hall on emergency calls. "I usually discover there is nothing wrong," he says, "except with the artists' nerves. I tell them that their violin is fine and then they are happy." So, ultimately, are the audiences, for as Violinist Henryk Szeryng says, the miracle of "the fragile little box is that we can produce sounds that penetrate people's hearts and provoke tears just by drawing horsehair over sheep guts...
...symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March, the time when contracts come up for renewal...
Self-Made Mexican. Son of an iron and lumber magnate, Szeryng was raised in the Warsaw suburb of Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Chopin. A child prodigy, he was packed off to Berlin at seven to study violin with the renowned teacher Carl Flesch, five years later entered the Sorbonne. The day after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Szeryng volunteered for the Polish Army. Fluent in seven languages, he was assigned to the Polish government-in-exile in Great Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home...
...Today Szeryng plays the concert circuit ten months of the year, travels on a diplomatic passport as Mexico's official cultural ambassador. Not as flashy as the school of violin virtuosos that U.S. audiences are accustomed to hearing, Szeryng enjoys his greatest popularity in Europe. "He is a musician's musician," explains Rubinstein patriotically. "In the U.S., the masses go to concerts for entertainment. But real music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with...