Word: bela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with which, incidentally, the Glee Club compares quite favorably. Before covering Italy, Germany, France, and England on Side Two, the Club creates a various and delightful performance of Bela Bartok's Five Slovak Folksongs...
...start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old Violinist Stefi Geyer. The 26-year-old Bartok expressed his devotion in two mistily adolescent letters and in one piece of music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left...
...BELA FABIAN...
...measure up to the vigorous and imaginative music of the 1920s, in which he so brilliantly enlarged the neo-classical movement. But Hindemith rarely listens to the critics. In all the 20th century, he insists, there are only two men who deserve the name Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. And perhaps, his admirers believe, Paul Hindemith...
...political proper nouns, the heroes of the other three biographies are interchangeable. All had remarkable, up-from-the-shoetops careers; all are so faultless and sinless that they must certainly be potential candidates for beatification as well as the U.S. presidency. The Nixon biography is the work of Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian refugee who, according to the dust jacket, learned English by going to American movies. This is undoubtedly true. The book includes a replica of Mother Hannah Nixon's handwritten recipe for cherry pie, as well as the information that young Dick won one of his first elections...