Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bartok: Piano Concerto...
...Gyorgy Sandor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). First recording of one of the major works of a composer whom the U.S. is only beginning to appreciate (TIME, March 18, 1946). Dying in Manhattan in 1945, Hungarian Bela Bartok put aside other projects to write this concerto, hoping it would help support his widow. He had finished all but the last 17 measures (and had outlined them) when he died. The concerto, melodic and original, is free of the harmonic obtuseness which put listeners off many of his earlier works. Performance: excellent...
Tonight's selections include works by Aaron Copland, Leroy Robertson, Richard Franko Goldman, Roy Harris, Roger Sessions, Bela Bartok, and Zolton Kodaly. Also featured will be "improvisation," by Walter Piston '24, professor of Music, and Two Etudes by Virgil Thomson...
...themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates to be called atonal: "I hear my music with the same kind of ear I use to listen to Beethoven...
...with arthritis, led the Chicago Women's Symphony through his First Symphony and Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, then played the violin in Brahms's Concerto in D Major. Shy, slight Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with no dye), 64, Hungary's top composer since the death of Bela Bartok, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his bustling, folk-tunish Peacock Variations. Enesco is now an honorary Rumanian deputy; Kodaly an honorary member of Hungary's Parliament...