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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...
...orders from the Justice Department, famed Hungarian-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti was put behind the wire fence last week on Ellis Island. Arriving in New York for his 25th U.S. concert tour, he was picked off the liner Ile de France, and refused admittance to the U.S. Immigration officers would only say that he was "temporarily excluded." Presumably, though the tight-mouthed immigration officials would not say so, Szigeti was being held under the new McCarran internal security law. Said the bewildered 58-year-old virtuoso, a California resident for the past nine years: "It makes me a prisoner. What...
Four days later, without answering his question, officials let Szigeti into...
...excellent performances of the superb Sonata No. 1, Alexander Schneider's (Mercury, 1 side LP) is for those who prefer a hardness of tone and a rather blunt forthrightness; Tossy Spivakovsky (Columbia, 1 side LP) plays with more beauty of tone and slightly softer phrasing. Violinist Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 1 side LP) has no competition in his performance of Sonata No. 5 (or, on the other side, in the Concerto No. 1, with the New Friends of Music Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry conducting). Recordings: good...