Word: bart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honoring a composer who could be there, many a Hungarian felt as if he were also paying respect to another composer who couldn't. Wrote one critic: "We are able to honor Kodály in his lifetime-which, sadly, we were unable to do for Bartók." (Bartók died, neglected, in New York City...
...young men, Kodály and Bartók, both ardent nationals in music, had squirmed together at the Budapest Conservatory under German professors who, snorts Kodály, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." They had tramped the hills recording more than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
Musically, she admits that Bartók, Schönberg and the atonalists are not her dish, although she has always been willing to help pay the grocery bills. Some of her friends claim that at concerts of jangling modern music, she turns off her hearing aid when the going gets too tough...
...team is not without ideals (it intends to speak for the non-Wallace left), but one of its ideals is to make money. Already, says Bart Crum, the staggering $15,000 weekly loss has been nearly halved; he hopes to be in the black by Labor Day. Good management will help, and so will such sidelines as syndicating the Star's stable of talent. But the main chance is to steal readers from two tabloids that are past masters of rough-&-tumble newsstand methods. If the Star ever seriously threatens either the Daily News or the Mirror, New York...