A Holocaust survivor who fled Hungary for Brazil in 1956, Ian Guest revolutionist music teaching and appreciation in his new country.
His life was celebrated three years ago in a film, The Imperfectionist.
His death has been reported this weekend.
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Just this brief clip is beautiful. So grateful that Brazil was able to welcome and treasure Jews escaping the Holocaust.
Guest survived the Holocaust in Hungary; what he was escaping was the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Brazil had welcomed many Holocaust escapees; Guest happens not to have been one of them.
Does anyone know what his Hungarian birth name was?
Aha — my query answered in the film trailer.