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Moderator Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, spoke in place of Professor Bridgman, whose illness kept him away...
...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
Tuesday, November 2, at 8 p.m., "The Milky Way," by Professor Bart...
Much of the fourth volume of Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply...
...three years in Dallas, Dorati has become a kind of Hungarian Texan (and a U.S. citizen) who knows how to get along with Dallas businessmen. He is also a fine musician who has helped carry many a Texan the long distance from San Antonio Rose to Bartók "without going out of my way to annoy them." Dorati has given Dallas world premieres of works by Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston and George Antheil. Some Texans now brag almost as much about their symphony orchestras as about the size of their state...