Apparently this story broke a day or two ago, but I am only just learning of it. Perhaps you are, too.
Joseph Kovacs was concertmaster of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (unrelated to the present organization) under Nicholas Harsanyi, back in the 1950s. He studied under Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music, where he won the prestigious Hubay prize. Kovacs died on April 27 at the age of 91.
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