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...exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant past, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, 64, who ruled from 1948 to 1956 and now seeks a popular mandate. On the election outcome hangs not only the future of Haya and his APRA...
...which brings $1,000 in cash and appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Denver symphony orchestras. Onto a stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art paraded four other finalists: Ralph Votapek, who gracefully turned the willowy phrases of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4; Bela Szilagi, whose Brahms and Liszt were played with cohesive intensity; Marilyn Neeley, a petite brunette who mastered the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky with brute female strength; and Stephen Manes, whose forte is clarity...
...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...