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Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
Hungary. Searchlights swept the skies of Budapest and air-raid protection squads in steel helmets patrolled the streets. The French Legation hastily removed important files to Belgrade and a speedy truck stood ready in the courtyard of the British Legation for a quick trip to the frontier. Believing that a former archenemy might have sufficient interest in balking Germany to the extent of lending at least moral support, Hungarian statesmen also discussed the best way of approaching the Soviet Union, hoping to ward off a German invasion that will certainly come to the landlocked Magyars if Hitler finds himself...
When Hungary went briefly Communist, in 1919, its dissonant Government put Bartók, Kodály and its third well-known composer, academic Ernst von Dohnányi, on musical pedestals. Enormously shy, Bartók lives in Budapest in extreme quiet with his wife and son. He has an almost inaudible voice, dislikes conversation, has one shy-rude trait. When addressed (in European manner) as maestro or maitre, he replies curtly: "My name is Mr. Bartók." Vigorously anti-Nazi, he will not allow his music, if he can help it, to be broadcast within earshot...
They have hated all their rulers: Hungarians, Mongols, Turks, Habsburgs, Rumanians. During their latest affiliation to Hungary (1868-1918), their repression of the Rumanian majority in Transylvania was appalling. Nevertheless it was on behalf of this Hungarian minority that Budapest was last week crying...
...another Budapest announcement made it look as if Count Csáky's diplomatic visits are not always what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...