Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since handsome young Hungarian-born Conductor Antal Dorati went to Dallas four years ago, he has labored to make his new countrymen conscious of one of his old: the late great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. Season after season he pounded Bartok at Dallas-and Dallas music lovers had almost adopted Bartok as their own. Dorati would be leaving (to take Dimitri Mitropoulos' podium in Minneapolis next season-), but he had promised himself to do something that people would remember-and connect with the Dallas Symphony. He succeeded. On NBC's Orchestras of the Nation broadcast last week...
...doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens the door looking out upon Bluebeard's rich manorial lands; harp arpeggios when Judith comes upon door No. 6 and the pool of water signifying the vale of tears. Hungarian Bass Desire Ligeti and Soprano Olga Forrai had few standout moments; Bluebeard, with its conversational style of recitative and declamation, reminded some, of Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande. But Bartok's music, less fiercely dissonant and rhythmic, but more melodic than some of his later works, was indeed...
Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...
When Rudolph came into the world, in 1858, his father promptly made him a colonel of Hungarian Light Infantry, and before he was six years old, put him in the care of a senior army officer. Sickly, timid Colonel Rudolph was toughened by being awakened at midnight with a fusillade of revolver shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted...
...Mindszenty, the Hungarian government formally announced that "under the weight of evidence against him [he] made a confession." But, so far, the Communists have not published any confession, with or without his signature. Cardinal Mindszenty, despite the human frailty he knew, was a strong man. Just before his arrest, he had written: "This is now the word of the Sermon on the Mount: 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...