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...work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer with a gold-leafed baton, and bull-necked Communist War Minister Peter Veres, a self-educated peasant who makes a point of never wearing a necktie on formal occasions, gave Kodály a wreath of fresh Hungarian wheat...
...honoring a composer who could be there, many a Hungarian felt as if he were also paying respect to another composer who couldn't. Wrote one critic: "We are able to honor Kodály in his lifetime-which, sadly, we were unable to do for Bartók." (Bartók died, neglected, in New York City...
...young men, Kodály and Bartók, both ardent nationals in music, had squirmed together at the Budapest Conservatory under German professors who, snorts Kodály, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." They had tramped the hills recording more than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities...
Politically, they were both militant liberals then (Bartók refused a decoration from the Admiral Horthy regime). Today Kodály is content to play along with the Communist government. Although he says he is not a party member, he composes little nowadays because so much of his time is taken up as president of Hungary's Arts Council, Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Music, and as a member of Parliament. Once a sandaled Bohemian, he is now one of Budapest's most elegant dressers, lives in fashionable Andrássy Ut. This fall in London...
...everything," and no one knows this better than the prospective graduate student. He has tried to find it out the hard way, however, by thumbing through piles of catalogues--many of them outdated and otherwise far from adequate-- by pounding out reams of letters to various universities, and Ly depending too heavily on the personal preferences of his local instructors...