Word: szigeti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
Concerto: Brahms's lone Violin Concerto, by Joseph Szigeti with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...
...Jeanette MacDonald, and has his heart set on getting Deanna Durbin ("My inspiration came when I was little more than a child and saw Deanna Durbin in 100 Men and a Girl"). Fielding is a former child prodigy who made concert violin tours at eleven, studied under Joseph Szigeti, spent the war staging concerts for the London Philharmonic in 70 provincial towns. As a budding impresario, he always bills himself above his artists. Last week, for another Kostelanetz concert, he modestly gave himself second billing to royalty. His posters read: "In the gracious presence of Her Majesty the Queen, Harold...
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (Joseph Szigeti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 9 sides); Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Szigeti plays Brahms's bombastic music straight, while Conductor Stokowski plays it pretentiously. Szigeti's concerto is a better performance, but Stokowski's symphony is more clearly recorded on unbreakable vinylite...