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...Bela Bartok published only six string quartets, but as far as many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also...
Before the eight-week festival is over, audiences will hear works of Bela Bartok, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Peter Mennin, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith and Composer Harris himself. Said he: "I'm not worried about people liking contemporary music; all I want is for them to get acquainted with it." People who don't get acquainted this summer will have another chance next year...
...Most recent: Hungarian Bela Bartok, who died broke in Manhattan in 1945, was buried by ASCAP...
Cumberland Music Festival (Sat. 1:30 p.m., NBC). First of a new series of modern chamber music by Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev, others...
...lectureship, created in 1928 by the gift of Mrs. H. A. Lamb, has brought to the College such prominent musical figures as Georges Enesco, Bela Bartok, and Aaron Copland in previous years...