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James Caesar Petrillo, tough little A.F. of L. boss of the big American Federation of Musicians, last week put a hammer lock on two famed fiddlers and a famed orchestra. Boss Petrillo forbade two of the Boston Symphony's scheduled soloists-Fiddlers Efrem Zimbalist and Joseph Szigeti-to fill their dates (two each) this season. Petrillo could call the fiddlers' tune because they had joined his A.F. of M. after resigning from the American Guild of Musical Artists (the boiled-shirt union which Petrillo has been trying to bust...
Violinist Zimbalist said he was disappointed. But he and Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...
...Joseph Szigeti was born 48 years ago in Budapest. Fiddler Jenö Hubay taught him; Fiddler Joseph Joachim, the 19th Century's greatest, pronounced him a comer. He made his debut at 13. Szigeti has spent most of his musical life in London and Paris-where he had to leave most of his possessions in a bombproof shelter...
...Joseph Szigeti's favorite game is listening to the radio, labeling compositions and performers. Sharp-eared, sharp-minded Szigeti has had some notable successes, as checkups proved, in identifying a player's background (a violinist was "a pupil of a pupil of Auer"), or guessing at a lady-pianist's love-life (none...
...friend of Jazzman Benny Goodman, with whom he plays clarinet-violin-piano works by another friend, Modernist Béla Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...