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...years following, he was, by his own admission, "thrown out of every school in Austria. I absolutely hated school-all that stupid talk." Aloof even then, he was dubbed "the irritable Christ" by his mother. At 14, he finally convinced his father, chairman of the board of the Austro-Hungarian steel trust, that he should be tutored privately. He took up singing and he tried painting, but he soon decided that both his baritone and brush were too shaky, so he got a job in a Vienna bookshop...
...those who do not qualify as legal travelers, there is always the more hazardous route past the minefields, barbed wire, watchtowers and border patrols that hem Communist frontiers. Last week two Hungarians escaped to Austria by flying their tiny sports plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train...
...first F.I.C.C. rally in an Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot...
...most people, music is a kind of bath to wash in," laments the 83-year-old patriarch of Hungarian music, Zoltan Kodály. "They react with their nerves, not their minds." With saintly dedication to the idea that good music is "the food of the soul," Kodály has labored most of his life to make it understandable as well as enjoyable. To souls nourished on dissonant modern music, Kodály's brand may seem like rather stale strudel. His themes remain resolutely melodic, and his rhythms never stray far from Slavic dances. Still, few 20th...
Revolutionary Techniques. Sixty years ago, Kodály and Fellow Hungarian Composer Bela Bartok trekked into the Magyar countryside to begin collecting folk songs, and later Kodály evoked those songs to give his compositions a simple expressiveness (best known in this country: the suite from his opera Háry Janós). Finding that many listeners still lacked the training to grasp his musical ideas, Kodály decided to improve the education of children. "I used to think the ideal age for beginning a child's musical education was nine months before birth," he once...