Word: szigeti
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...Szigeti feels he is master of the ship and the institutions that go with it. He is no traditional romantic virtuoeo and certainly makes no pretensions to be. He relates that Shaw once told him, "You fiddlers no longer look the part. The only one who does look the part is--Einstein...
...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
...Including David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Zino Francescatti, Joseph Szigeti, Ivan Galamian, Arthur Grumiaux...
...orchestra, besides performing accepted classics, has kept the Cambridge public aware of new musical work. Music by Shostakovitch, Piston, Mennin, and Vaughan Williams has appeared on the H-R O program, despite the objections of reactionary elements in the Cambridge audience. Soloists such as Ruth Posselt, Joseph Szigeti, and Johanna Martzy have performed in Cambridge under Pierian's auspices, and university hopefuls also