Sandor Salgo
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(1909-2007)
Sandor Salgo was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary in 1909, Sandor Salgo studied music in Budapest. A clear standout, his early career was affected by the prewar antisemitism then prevalent in Hungary. In 1937, Sandor Salgo and a string quartet would serenade the bed-ridden wife of the American Ambassador to Hungary. America's walls were closed to immigrants, but the Ambassador refused to leave Mr. Salgo behind and he was afforded a special visa to America in 1937. In 1939 (with no formal training in English) Sandor Salgo taught at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Getting up early in the morning to study English, teaching the afternoon, and giving concerts by night Mr. Salgo managed to find time to court and marry Priscilla Salgo. It was during this time at Princeton that Albert Einstein attended one of Mr. Salgo's concerts. He sent him a letter of appreciation and the two played occasionally in a quartet together. Sandor Salgo was asked to conduct the Israeli symphony but politely declined saying, "I came here to be an American." From 1949-1973 Sandor Salgo taught and conducted the music and opera programs at Stanford University. Sandor and Priscilla Salgo began directing the Carmel Bach festival in 1956 and turned it into an internationally acclaimed festival. When he was in his nineties, Mr. Salgo wrote the book Thomas Jefferson: Musician and Violinist about the musical life of Thomas Jefferson.
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- http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1997/sepoct/departments/saacorner.html
- http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/1/30/professorEmeritusOfMusicSalgoDies
- http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/sandor_tribute_1_23_07.php
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