Word: bela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other arts of Communist politics. Most of his adult life has been spent either in Hungary's jails or in Moscow's schools for sabotage. On Moscow's orders, he framed Cardinal Mindszenty, executed his colleague Laszlo Rajk, helped the Russians to kidnap Majority Leader Bela Kovacs, and forced Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile...
...world, capable of far more clarity than a booming mass chorus and far more power than the usual smaller ensemble. In three intricate chansons by Debussy and three more by Ravel, his singers performed with gymnastic precision. Finally they went on to the first U.S. performance of Bela Bartok's exotic secular cantata, The Enchanted Deer, and handled it with perfect form and ease...
Previous awards under the fund, established by Mrs. H. A. Lamb in honor of Horatio Appleton Lamb '71, went to Georges Eneeco in 1929-30, Gustav Holst, 1931-32. Hugo Leichentritt, 1933-34, Bela Bartok, 1943. Aaron Copland, now Charles Eliot Norton Professor, in 1944, Otto Kinkeldey, 1946-47, and, Carl Weinrich...
...Juilliard made its first big splash three seasons ago by performing a cycle of the six quartets of Bela Bartok for the first time in the U.S., and playing them in a ruggedly impressive manner. With the last note, Russia's Dmitri Shostakovich, who was in Manhattan for a peace-front powwow, rushed backstage with congratulations. A Columbia Records executive signed them up for recordings...
Bartok: Excerpts from Mikrokosmos (Bela Bartok, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Another of the "Meet the Composer" series, this one contains 35 of the original set of 153 studies in Bartokian rhythm and melody. Sample titles: Alternating Thirds, From the Diary of a Fly, Wrestling, Minor Seconds, Triplets in 9/8 Time. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...