Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooted in their esthetic laziness. "I'd much rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those young things who rave about their Klee paintings and their Bartok quartets . . . Today Brahms can no longer be tolerated, but Rossini is very chic...
Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz; Dallas Symphony conducted by Walter Hendl; Victor). Miklos Rozsa, best known as a movie composer (Spellbound, A Double Life), writes music that is recognizably Hungarian-after Bartok and Kodaly made the style familiar-and also, by some strange chemistry of the ear, Hollywoodian. Its message is easygoing, its orchestration competently conservative. The concerto was written for Heifetz, who helped out with parts of it, and who plays it as if he had written...
John Moriarty, pianist, will play Bela Bartok, Chopin and Liszt at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in Jordan Hall...
...Columbia). Argentine Concert Pianist Enrique Villegas. whose gears shifted to jazz a long time ago when he first heard Duke Ellington, ripples through some fine old tunes in a style that should put his listeners in high. Into his giggly musical hopper Pianist Villegas topples everything from burlesque to Bartok, turns out some unique...
...Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinsky...