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Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Mischa Elman, violinist, Wolfgang Rosé, pianist; Victor, 6 sides). Both Menuhin and Szigeti have performed this more brilliantly. Recording: fair...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). More Brahms: Violinist Joseph Szigeti plays a concerto, and Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Symphony...
...sides). An excellent recording of an energetic but empty piece, notable because it gives U.S. music lovers a first chance to hear one of the world's greatest living violinists. David Oistrakh, now 40, won an international competition for violinists in Brussels in 1937 (among the judges: Joseph Szigeti), has rarely been far out of Russia since...
...Such is his power that any person who wants to play any instrument for profit must be a member of his union-or just play for his friends. This means everyone from Spike Jones, whose City Slickers would rather murder a tune than play it, to Concert Violinist Joseph Szigeti; from Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, the king of swing trumpeters, to Susan Reed, who plays a polite zither in nightclubs. Arturo Toscanini is an honorary member but other symphony conductors, like the men in their orchestras, are obedient members of Petrillo's union...
When the sonata was over, San Francisco's audience bravoed Szigeti to five curtain calls and fans followed him to his dressing room. Glowed Szigeti: "I think it got under their skins. I could feel it taking hold of them. This music-it is inescapable. A German composer could have diluted this sonata into enough material for a couple of symphonies...