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...Karolyi Palace, concertgoers gathered to pay Zoltan Kodaly homage on the 25th birthday of his best-but not best known-work. First they heard the Budapest Symphony Orchestra galumph pleasantly through the concert suite from Kodaly's bright, bumptiously good-humored opera Háry János...
...past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...
Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...
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...
Beethoven: Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9, Op. 59 (Paganini Quartet; Victor, 3 volumes, 26 sides). The new Paganiril Quartet plays the three famed "Rasoumowsky" quartets with competence but without fire. The first one has been done better by the Roth Quartet, and the other two by the Budapest. Recording: good...