Word: sarolta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the death of his first wife, who was 18 years his senior, he married a comely blonde music student, Sarolta, who was 56 years his junior. She acted as intermediary and hostess for Kodály who, as the dean of European composers and Hungary's most revered citizen, received an endless stream of visitors in his Budapest apartment during his last years. A shy, slight, spade-bearded man with the face of an El Greco apostle, he admonished people to "go to the peasants. Hear them sing. You can't learn from musical scores only...
...swimming pool, journeyed out into the country to gaze up wonderingly at California's giant redwoods, and once drew a little girl aside with a promise of a secret, then whispered in her ear: "I love you." Always at his side was his striking 27-year-old wife, Sarolta, interpreting, smoothing his way, even firmly sending him to bed at 7 p.m. to rest from a tiring...
...have a special paradise, it will be like this," remarked Japanese Cellist Ko Iwasaki as he gazed around a sunlit meadow. Pianist Rudolf Serkin was in animated conversation with Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Hungary's greatest living composer, Zoltán Kodály, 82, and his blonde wife Sarolta, 26, were talking over old times with Cellist Pablo Casals, 89, and his dark-haired wife Marta, 24. Under an oak tree Violinists Shmuel Ashkenasi (from Israel) and Charles Avsharian (from the U.S.) were playing a bridge game with Tenor Jon Humphrey (Robert Shaw Chorale soloist) and Horn Player Steve...