Word: budapests
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Opportunism had paid dividends in 1940 when, by playing Germany's game, they had taken the long disputed province of Transylvania from Rumania. Germany bought their crops and paid for them. The collapse of Yugoslavia further .strengthened Hungary. Magyar counts strode haughtily along the Danube confident that Budapest would soon be capital of Southeastern Europe, a strong and respected buffer between Berlin and Rome, guardian of the status quo from the Black Sea to the Adriatic...
...year ago Hungary, Slovakia and Rumania declared war on the U.S. In Budapest last week the war-weary Hungarians told an apocryphal story of how their declaration of war had been relayed to President Roosevelt by U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
Mozart: Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (Budapest Quartet with M. Katims, viola; Columbia; 8 sides). A fine ensemble continues working the richest musical seams...
While the famed Budapest Quartet played compositions by Schumann and Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...