Word: tibor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: Viola Concerto (William Primrose, viola; the New Symphony Orchestra of London, Tibor Serly conducting; Bartok Records, 2 sides LP). Bartok sums up his own distinctive chromatic and rhapsodic language in this, one of his last compositions. A magnificent first recording of the concerto by the violist who commissioned it and the composer-conductor who completed it after Bartok's death...
When Hungarian Correspondent Tibor Merai spoke contemptuously to Levi about Tito, the Yugoslav retorted: "Where was [Hungarian Deputy Premier] Rakosi when our peoples were fighting for their liberation? In a hotel in Russia eating caviar, while Tito was fighting in the mountains." Sputtered Merai: "You call yourself a Communist...
...fact that greatly pleases U.S. operagoers-she represents a new trend in opera. As Conductor Tibor Kozma says: "Operagoers no longer will stand for three-ton tanks in the roles of innocent 15-year-old girls, or singers who stand in front of the prompter's box and do their daily dozen. They want acting. They want dramatic realism. Munsel and some others are representatives of a young generation of singers who are really singing actors." Patrice's manager, Sol Hurok, says with box-office candor: "You can listen with your eyes open...
...instruments survived, and one 130-year-old copy turned up at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week in the hands of Musician Francis Lantos, a Hungarian-born refugee. Lantos' countryman, Composer Tibor Serly (who deciphered and scored Bartok's famed Viola Concerto), had written his plaintive Chamber Folk Music for violin, piano and tarogato in 1948, but until recently had found no one who could make the instrument sing. Lantos, who broadcasts over
Bartok: Deux Images for Orchestra (New Symphony Orchestra, Tibor Serly conducting; Bartok Records, 2 sides LP). Early Bartok, with a touch of Debussy and a full share of Bartok's own masterful orchestral technique. Performance and recording: excellent...