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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...
...minarets and mud walls, soaring spiked fences and rambling cattle. Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) is Rumania's second city-with a population of 170,000 and an undeserved reputation as headquarters for Dracula, the world's first Batman. Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent hearing, and the late Rumanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi is much admired...
BARTOK: STRING QUARTETS 1-6 (Columbia; 3 LPs). The Juilliard String Quartet, after many performances of the works and a previous set of recordings, attacks each quartet with consummate skill and understanding. The musicians are warmly expansive in the romantic first quartet (1908), pungently Magyar in the second (1915-17), and harshly abrasive in the ugly, expressionist third (1927) with its abusive hammerings and pluckings, yawling glissandos and jerky rhythms. The strings sing again in the last three quartets, which in spite of some jagged polyphony, frequently dissolve into swaying melody. The result is an album of the finest chamber...
...SUITE (London). These high-spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Háry János, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...
...bloc nation, despite the continued presence of Red Army troops. Last year some 70,000 Hungarians traveled in the West, while 200,000 Westerners-mainly Austrians, Italians and West Germans, as well as 12,000 Americans-came in and spent money. Budapest, with its fine but expensive restaurants, its Magyar beauties in beehive hairdos, its "Rockola" jukebox parlors, its elegant Hotel Gellert surrounded by Jags, Mercedes and Alfa Romeos, is by far the most European city in the bloc...