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Gateways to Music (Thurs. 5 p.m., CBS). The Columbia Concert Orchestra, playing Intermezzo, from Kodály's Háry János Suite; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia; Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Humperdinck's prelude to Hänsel und Gretel, Schumann's Third Symphony, Kodály's Dances of Galanta. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
Bartók Béla (as Hungarians call him) as a mouse-poor student roamed his native land, bending a sensitive ear to its folk songs. Among the peasants Bartók met, by purest chance, another composer with the same idea: Zoltán Kodály. The two got together, noted down several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bart...
When Hungary went briefly Communist, in 1919, its dissonant Government put Bartók, Kodály and its third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot...