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...repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates to be called atonal: "I hear my music with the same kind of ear I use to listen to Beethoven...
...bent with arthritis, led the Chicago Women's Symphony through his First Symphony and Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, then played the violin in Brahms's Concerto in D Major. Shy, slight Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with no dye), 64, Hungary's top composer since the death of Bela Bartok, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his bustling, folk-tunish Peacock Variations. Enesco is now an honorary Rumanian deputy; Kodaly an honorary member of Hungary's Parliament...
Last week she sang song cycles by two great French song writers, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, and two songs by a 28-year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
Only George Lukacs (who was Commissar for Culture in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic, and has since lived in Moscow) again & again urged the subordination of the individual, especially the intellectual, to the community...
Kinkeldy, former professor of Musicology at Cornell, will he visiting Lecturer in music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, which as in the past sponsored such men as Bela Bartok, Georges Euesco, Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, and Hugo Leichtentritt. Kinkeldy will conduct a seminar in musical history this fall and will also teach the University's introductory course in music research...