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...Budapest String Quartet played three Beet-hoven quartets to a large and receptive Sanders Theatre audience yesterday afternoon. The Quartet played with thorough understanding and calmness, although always conveying the music's excitement...
...Budapest Quartet plays with poise and assurance. Joseph Roisman, the first violinist, asserts vigorous leadership with amazing economy of motion. Jac Gorodetzky, the new second violinist, is a distinct improvement over his predecessor who always seemed to play his important motives too softly. The Quartet is one of the finest groups in the nation, and their appearance here was one of the season's highlights...
Notified that U.S. diplomats in Hungary were restricted to an 18-mile zone around Budapest, the State Department dispatched a curt note: "Effective immediately, members of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in the United States . . . are prohibited from staying "or traveling beyond a specified area except by express permission . . . The designated area is fixed at a distance of 18 miles from the White House, Washington...
...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...
...premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript...