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...Communist Chinese invasion of Korea was "aggression." but the West was also "not blameless"; the crushing of the Hungarian rebellion was unfortunate, but all the facts were not clear; when the Soviet Union broke the nuclear test moratorium last year, Nehru deplored "all nuclear tests...
Married. Zsa Zsa Gabor, 37 according to her marriage license, sometime Hungarian actress, alltime girl about town; and New York Industrialist Herbert Loeb Hutner, 53; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Zoltan Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite, best described as an interminable joke, constituted the second half of the concert. The suite recounts in six programmatic movements some tales of the Hungarian folk-hero Hary Janos, and is as much of a musical extravaganza as those tales were tall. "A magnificent orchestral sneeze"--a cross between an orchestra tuning and a radio warming up--opened the fairy tales. In the "Viennese Musical Clock," the percussion section went admirably wild; but the music beneath, no matter how heavily sugarcoated, tasted stale. The third movement, "Song," and the dance in the fifth, however...
Power to Spare. The real standouts, however, were Tenor Sandor Konya as Walther and Baritone Otto Wiener, who was making his Met debut in the role of Sachs. Hungarian-born Tenor Konya displayed a voice that had warmth, agility and power to spare; in his last act Prize Song he came as close as any man can to stopping a Wagnerian opera in its tracks. Baritone Wiener did not have a voice of flogging power, but he dominated the stage by sheer dramatic invention; he made Sachs a completely human figure...
...first recording in three years, Horowitz selected works of composers with whom he has long been identified-Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau in C Major and Etude-Tableau in E-Flat Minor, Schumann's Arabesque, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. ig. In all of them Horowitz triumphantly demonstrates that whatever it is that keeps him from the concert stage, it is surely not failing artistic power. The glittering, steely technique is still there; Horowitz can play the piano with a strength and a seething air of controlled violence...