Word: szigeti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slender, highbrowed violinist found "my fingers cold . . . getting weaker and weaker." He was "submitting to an ordeal by fire in front of some half-hundred string players . . . come to . . . rehearsal with a decided 'show me' attitude." That December day in 1925, young Budapest-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti showed them-with the Beethoven Violin Concerto...
Since then, Violinist Szigeti, world-traveled and world-famed, has endured many another ordeal by fire-including such unforeseen ones as his recent detention on Ellis Island on re-entering the country he has made his home for nearly a decade (TIME, Nov. 27). A greying, philosophic man of 58, he has survived them all. In Carnegie Hall last week, he played a unique concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his harrowing U.S. debut...
Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
Facing most often toward Conductor Mitropoulos, playing with the orchestra rather than in front of it, Szigeti again proved himself a master musician. Among the warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...
Four days later, without answering his question, officials let Szigeti into...