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...cold and colorless as the sour cream with which Magyars anoint the spicy stew they call szekely gulyds. Ever since he crushed the 1956 revolt, Premier Kadar has kept his picture off office walls and newspaper pages, remains so unfamiliar that even today he can walk the streets of Budapest without being recognized by many Hungarians. All the same, the new style in Communist circles these days is separation of party and government leadership, and so Kadar last week turned his government into a duumvirate...
...rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores, written in the master's hand between 1762 and 1780, were in various states of disrepair. Landon set himself to the task of preparing them for production. Last week the Landon-restored Le Pescatrici (The Fisherwomen) opened at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam to critical acclaim: "A score which swarms with pleasing musical finds"; "Some arias and duets are jewels which nobody other than Haydn could have...
Landon was unruffled. "Some may accuse me of heresy," he said, "but if you did not do what I did, you simply could not play it. I want those operas onstage, not buried in an archive in Budapest...
Sunday, June 13 LAMP UNTO MY Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 am) An examination of Hungary's diminished but still active Jewish.community, with rare films of Sabbath Eve services in Budapest's Dohany (Tabak) Synagogue-the center of the Jewish ghetto during Nazi occupation. LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 am) "The Evolution of Church Music." An explanation of the ethnic adaptations of liturgical music, an analysis of the Gregorian chant, and illustrative performances by Composer-Conductor C. Alexander Peloquin's Chorale comprise the first of a three-part series...
...Russia and its satellites. Going farther, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting urged the U.S. to "open channels of communications with the people of Communist China." Last week the trade drive picked up speed in three European capitals. The U.S. opened its first trade show in Budapest amid the whir of computers and the roar of tractors; West Germany unveiled a $6,000,000 industrial display in Bucharest; and the Red Chinese showed up at the Paris Trade Fair with the biggest and best display of the 37 nations present...