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...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...
Hungary's late great Composer Bela Bartok used to refer fondly to his First Piano Concerto as his "stepchild." Critics have often used harsher terms. "Unmitigated ugliness," wrote the Nation at the work's U.S. premiere. That was in 1928, when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode...
...devotion. Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner studied under Bartok at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Early in his career, Reiner started championing Bartok's works. "We were both from the same stable," he says, and adds in a rare burst of humility: "Of course, he was the great Bela Bartok, and I was only the little Fritz Reiner...
...ranking member of Hungary's last freely elected Parliament, he came to the U.S. and rallied other Hungarian exiles. Over the years he prayed that his country would not be forgotten by the free world. To Bela Varga, last week's honor was a quiet sign. Said he: "After 15 years I was not forgotten; the work for freedom in Balatonboglar was not forgotten. They who suffer for freedom in Hungary today -they, too, will not be forgotten...