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Previous awards under the fund, established by Mrs. H. A. Lamb in honor of Horatio Appleton Lamb '71, went to Georges Eneeco in 1929-30, Gustav Holst, 1931-32. Hugo Leichentritt, 1933-34, Bela Bartok, 1943. Aaron Copland, now Charles Eliot Norton Professor, in 1944, Otto Kinkeldey, 1946-47, and, Carl Weinrich...
...Juilliard made its first big splash three seasons ago by performing a cycle of the six quartets of Bela Bartok for the first time in the U.S., and playing them in a ruggedly impressive manner. With the last note, Russia's Dmitri Shostakovich, who was in Manhattan for a peace-front powwow, rushed backstage with congratulations. A Columbia Records executive signed them up for recordings...
...year-old stage number that was long too hot for Europe got its U.S. premiere in Manhattan last week, and hardly anybody raised an eyebrow. The work: a nightmarish ballet fantasy entitled The Miraculous Mandarin, set to the 1919 music of Hungarian Bela Bartok. Its main characters: a prostitute and a Chinese mandarin whose love for her is stronger than death...
Bartok: Excerpts from Mikrokosmos (Bela Bartok, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Another of the "Meet the Composer" series, this one contains 35 of the original set of 153 studies in Bartokian rhythm and melody. Sample titles: Alternating Thirds, From the Diary of a Fly, Wrestling, Minor Seconds, Triplets in 9/8 Time. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...