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...Bela, Bartok, noted Hungarian pianist, composer, and authority on folk music, joined the depleted ranks of Harvard's Music Department Tuesday afternoon by giving the first in a series of lectures under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund at the Music Building before a small but appreciative audience...
...Bela Bartok, internationally known Hungarian composer and authority on Balkan folk songs and modern music, will join the University teaching staff during the spring term, Professor Arthur T. Merritt, chairman of the department of Music, revealed recently...
...Dracula" probably represents the great horror drama of all time. The Harvard Dramatic Club's choice of this play reflects a sensitivity to popular reactions, for it has seldom been produced since its Broadway performance over fifteen years ago. Even if you did see Bela Lugosi do it in the movies a few years back, the play won't be mere repetition, since each Dracula is sinister in his own chilly way. You can hear were-wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness...
They were made in Yugoslavia in 1933 and 1934 by the late Harvard professor Milman Parry, for purely philological purposes. Bela Bartok is transcribing them for musical purposes. For most of these songs, handed down from generation to generation, have never before been put on paper...
Strange to U.S. ears are the songs Bela Bartok listens to. The 300 discs of love songs, recorded in wild, mountainous Herzegovina, have irregular, formless lines, queer vocal embellishments. Stranger still are the heroic songs, long, rambling tales of adventure and battle (the longest takes twelve hours to sing; many are several thousand lines long). They are chanted to a singsong type of melody, half speech, half music, whose short phrases are repeated with endless monotony. Under the voice runs a twanging countermelody, plucked out on the one-stringed gusla...