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Like many another composer, Hungary's Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got played, if at all, before esoteric little groups of modernist composers and musicians, who had built up a tolerance to what the uninitiated regarded as barnyard music...
...Modernist? The Council's constitution forbids the drawing up of any common creed, and bars from membership extremely "liberal" churches which deny Christ's divinity. In 1944, the Council voted against admitting the Universalist Church (45,000 members). Other sizable nonmember churches: Unitarian, Southern Baptist, most Lutheran groups.' Chief complaint of most Baptist and Lutheran groups, who are basically fundamentalist, is that the Council itself is too modernist, leftist and pacifist...
...surprising $2,500 first prize winner* was a cluttered, satirical Soda Jerker by 5 9-year-old Manhattan-born modernist Paul Burlin. Pepsi-Cola, which reproduces prizewinners on a calendar, carefully omitted Soda Jerker. Burlin painted it nine years ago, before he ever heard of Pepsi-Cola, to show the drugstore "as an ironic, decorative melange. It's a hell of a place...
Died. Béla BartÓk, 64, prolific Hungarian composer of piquant, sometimes cacophonous orchestral and chamber music; longtime student of Magyar and Yugoslav folk music; after long illness; in Manhattan, his home since 1940. A radical modernist, BartÓk in 1938 wrote Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin especially for his friend Joseph Szigeti's violin and Benny Goodman's rippling clarinet...
...Modernist position had seldom been stated so bluntly. A Fundamentalist Presbyterian group in Philadelphia accepted Fosdick's challenge and objected so insistently and so violently that the Presbyterian General Assembly was forced to ask Fosdick to become a Presbyterian. He refused, on the grounds that the ministry should not be a denominationally "closed shop...