Word: szigeti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Szigeti...
...naming the exceptions to the first-rate violinists who are not Jewish [TIME, Feb. 22], how about Szigeti? He is probably the most first-rate of all the first-rate...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Szigeti, 50, famed "violinist's violinist" and ardent Benny Goodman fan, is also Jewish...
...artistic policies with the relentlessness of a musical Robespierre. A woman of stern, uncompromising tastes, she decreed that the New Friends should have no stars, no intermissions, no encores, no flowers, no free passes. For her audiences she hired a few carefully selected soloists (Pianist Artur Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti and others) and a roster of the finest string quartet players...
...thronged with applauding listeners. But the intake at the box office usually runs somewhere from $6.50 to a few hundred dollars. Concert names that are big enough to draw real money in Manhattan (Rachmaninoff, Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann) can be counted on ten fingers. Even famed Violinist Joseph Szigeti netted a mere $200 on a last year's Manhattan recital...