Gretchen Ehrenberg: >This Obituary crossed the wires. I am not familiar with this artist. >Any information? > >The world-renowned violinist and conductor, Tibor Varga, has >died at his home in the Swiss Alpine village of Grimisuat at >the age of 82. His version of the Nielsen concerto on a Turnabout LP was the first I heard. It still cuts the mustard. I also heard many Swiss Radio tapes from the Tibor Varga Festival and remember them as introducing me to much unfamiliar music. Richard Pennycuick