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Bela Bartok.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Bela Bartok. The Miraculous Mandarin; Dance Suite; Hungarian Pictures. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557433, 2005.
Given what we know about Bela Bartok's deep aversion to urban life (and even, it could be argued, to modernity itself), it seems only natural that he would team up with the Expressionist writer Menyhert Lengyel to create the pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin. The dark and gruesome story line deals primarily with thuggery, prostitution, and elaborate murder in the inner city, and Bartok described the music he composed for it as "hellish." At its premiere in Cologne in 1926, the ballet was received with such vociferous animosity that it was immediately banned; Bartok never saw the work performed again. To today's perhaps more jaded listener, the music may not carry the same emotional ...
- New recordings show the exotic, opulent side of Bela Bartok. (Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Duncan, Scott November 30, 1993 700+ words
Bela Bartok's reputation is...1917) and ``The Miraculous Mandarin'' (1919). Several...Philharmonic in ``The Miraculous Mandarin'' on EMI Classics...performance of ``The Miraculous Mandarin'' is equally gripping...
- Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Fosler-Lussier, Danielle March 1, 1999 700+ words
...A schism has long divided scholars studying the music of Bela Bartok: Anglo-Americans have tended to an analytic, music...such a variety of styles, from the expressionism of The Miraculous Mandarin (1919) to the hard, Stravinskian sound of the First Piano...
- Bela Bartok.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Notes Laki, Peter June 1, 2005 700+ words
Bela Bartok. I. Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester...ca. 23 min. [euro]28.95.] Bela Bartok. 14 Bagatellen fur Klavier, Op. 6...00934-5; Z. 934. $13.95.] Bela Bartok. Allegro Barbaro for Piano Solo, Edited...
- Bela Bartok commemorated on his 125th birthday.
- Newspaper article from: Turkish Daily News October 8, 2006 700+ words
...famous Hungarian composer and scholar Bela Bartok was commemorated in Istanbul this week...Rey Concert Hall today. The life of Bela Bartok: Bartok's life and work seem particularly...After the early death of his father Bela Bartok Sr., when he was eight, his mother...
- Swedish choir wins 21st Bela Bartok choir competition.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire July 31, 2004 700+ words
...nna Sangen choir of Sweden won the grand prize of the 21st Bela Bartok international choir competition that ended on Saturday evening...is named after Hungarian composer, pianist and music scholar Bela Bartok (1881-1945).
- Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. (Book...
- Magazine article from: Notes Schneider, David E. December 1, 2001 700+ words
Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera. By Carl S. Leafstedt. Oxford and New York...in musical theater, most memorably as the subject of Bela Bartok's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle. As Carl Leafstedt...
- Bela Bartok.
- Magazine article from: Notes Leafstedt, Carl December 1, 2003 700+ words
Bela Bartok. Musik fur Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta: Faksimile des Partiturautographs und der Skizzen. Herausgegeben und kommentiert...
- Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts and Autograph Sources.
- Magazine article from: The British Journal of Aesthetics Howell, Tim April 1, 1998 700+ words
...literature is extremely fragmented, the product of isolated, individual approaches. As chief editor of the forthcoming Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition and longtime Director of the Bartok Archive in Budapest, Laszlo Somfai is especially well placed...
- Bela Bartok Studies in Ethnomusicology.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Dopp, Bonnie Jo February 15, 1997 700+ words
...ed. by Benjamin Suchoff. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8032-4247-6. $40. MUSIC A continuation of Suchoff's Bela Bartok Essays (Univ. of Nebraska, 1992. reprint), this work contains the published ethnomusicological writings that were omitted...
- Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources.
- Magazine article from: Music & Letters Gillies, Malcolm May 1, 1998 700+ words
...accumulated wisdom of Somfai and his small team of Hungarian workers; this situation appears unlikely to change for many a year. Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources is, surprisingly, Somfai's first through-written book about Bartok...
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