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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Violinist Erica Morini...
Standing in front of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the 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...
...orchestra rather than in front of it, Szigeti again proved himself a master musician. Among the warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...
...Remote Corners. For Violinist Szigeti, that has been the goal ever since he went to England as a young man and his work with Composer-Pianist Ferruccio Busoni caused "the scales to fall away from my eyes." He concentrates on trying to play a composer's music "from the inside out" instead of putting a "superficial" gloss on it. Though he has a reputation for struggling painfully to prepare every concert, he actually practices very little. Says Szigeti: "Visitors always seem to find me in my shirtsleeves when I have finished 25 minutes of practice, and think I have...