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...leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...Julliard String Quartet will present the six quartets of Bela Bartok in two concerts at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night at Sanders Theater, in a series sponsored by the Music Department...
When Russian-born Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky made San Francisco sit up and take notice a year ago with his blazing performance of Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), critics and music lovers wondered if he could keep up the pace. Fellow violinists said that Tossy had made the difficult Bartok concerto his own, but that playing the classic concertos might be a different story. Since then Tossy has proved that Bartok is just one well-done chapter in his concert book...
Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss...
...priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror in 1919, Father Pehm attacked him in a pamphlet. The Communists led him through the town's streets "in shame," then imprisoned him in the county courthouse...