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Violinist Joseph Szigeti was jubilant over the manuscript that had come to him from Soviet Russia. Said he: "When Prokofiev was the very bad boy of music, I pioneered for him, and he has never forgotten." Twenty-three years ago in Prague it was Szigeti who had started Prokofiev's masterful Violin Concerto No. 1 on its way to fame. Last week in San Francisco, Szigeti bowed and plucked his way through the U.S. première of Prokofiev's new Sonata...
...Szigeti had been letting it "run through my head" for four months, but it was so knotty that he propped the score up before him in San Francisco's opera house. Of one movement, a furious crossfire between piano and violin, Szigeti said: "It is the ugliest thing going. It is terrific." After that came a third movement as lyrical as something out of Puccini, followed by a fast, gay finale...
Beethoven: Concerto in D Major (Josef Szigeti, violinist, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). The second time Szigeti and Walter have teamed up in Beethoven's only violin concerto, again with happy results. Recording: good...
...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...