Word: szigeti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resent also your uncomic use of spaghetti to rhyme with Szigeti. I don't care if it does rhyme, or even if there was no other word to use. It is an insult to one of the finest artists of our times...
...Bartok & Szigeti...
...TIME sees no injustice in its report that the widespread recognition of Bela Bartok's work was belated. As for famed Violinist Szigeti, how about confetti...
...Says Szigeti: "The mental inertia of the music-listening public is something so terrifying it is better not to think of it. Our sluggish mental habits make so much great music seem esoteric. We shut out our participation because we are afraid. Bartók is one of the imperishable creative artists. His position is less likely to be corroded by the years than that of Sibelius or Strauss or Prokofiev...
...Bartók's own favorites was his early (1907) Portrait No. 1 in D, in which a tender strain of violin melody was originally played by the concertmaster from his seat in the orchestra. Bartók once begged Szigeti: "You must rescue it, take it out of the orchestra." Last week Szigeti played it as a violin concerto, with Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony, in its first Manhattan performance. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "How music of such extraordinary value can have escaped [our] attention . . . for four decades is difficult to understand...