Word: bart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...
...Washington, at a reverent chamber-music festival, Composer Bartók at the piano collaborated with an eminent friend and compatriot, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (pronounced zig-get´ty), in his First Rhapsody and Second Sonata. The same pair gave the Rhapsody a repeat performance in Manhattan. The Philadelphia Orchestra played two "Bartók Images, fairly easy on the ears. The League of Composers had scheduled an all-Bartók concert in Manhattan for this week, once again with "Bartók and Szigeti on the stage...
...Bartók, a precise, percussive pianist, was to play pieces with titles like From the Diary of a Fly, Syncopation, From the Island of Bali, from his Mikrokosmos, which was published last week...
...Bartók Béla (as Hungarians call him) as a mouse-poor student roamed his native land, bending a sensitive ear to its folk songs. Among the peasants Bartók met, by purest chance, another composer with the same idea: Zoltán Kodály. The two got together, noted down several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bart...
When Hungary went briefly Communist, in 1919, its dissonant Government put Bartók, Kodály and its third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot...