Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand delegates to the World Youth and Student Festival at Budapest, August 14 to 28, heard or read these descriptions of American. This was the second such festival, dedicated to "peace, independence, democracy"; it grouped representatives from 82 national groups...
Marking the delegation's two-week stay in Budapest were incidents of intra-group wrangling and suspicion, during which the majority frequently attempted to silence dissenters from its policy. The delegation also ran into friction with the U. S. Embassy, and one instance of out-and-out crime...
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...
Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 64 No. 5 (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). This quartet, the "Lark," does not fly with quite the grace and charm of Haydn's earlier and better quartet, "The Bird" (Op. 33, No. 3). The Budapesters don't soar with their earlier ease either. Recording: fair...
While Chicago was triple-billing soloists, California's Mills College double-billed the famed Budapest and Paganini String Quartets. First it was the Budapest's turn, with Darius Milhaud's new, dryly dissonant Quartet No. 14. That over, the Budapest retired, and the Paganini played Milhaud's more melodic Quartet No. 15. Then, while chamber-music lovers waited uneasily, the Budapest returned, sat down alongside the Paganini, and the eight players played the two quartets simultaneously. The result: critics found it a superb feat of musicianship, but most listeners looked as if they were hearing...