Word: szigeti
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...Szigeti...
...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...
Flight 3 moved on through the night, into a bright Midwestern dawn. At Albuquerque, N.Mex., room had to be found for 15 officers and men of the Army ferry command, returning to their Coast base. Four passengers gave up their seats: one was Violinist Joseph Szigeti...
Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...