Hello everyone, Re the alternate ending to Concerto for Orchestra, I have come across three alternate endings to this piece. When I first started surfing the...
Hello everyone, Apologies for the repetition. This message is for people in the group who have elected to receive special notices. I am Christine Gleeson and I...
... isn't it? I have been always very impressed by the second movement of the second Piano Concerto. I made the following story, which I think suits well to...
Hello everyone, Pierre has described very well his Experience of Bartok's concept of "night music". Recently on Australian Classic FM Radio, there was a...
... This concept of night music in Bartok originated from the fourth piece "The Night's Music" of his suite for piano "Out Doors". Bartok scholars speak about...
Regarding September and the commemoration of Bartok's passing: I'll make a note of it and let you know if WMUK here in Kalamazoo has plans to do so. All I can...
* Christine, thank you for your kind welcome. I couldnft find any group where we can talk about Bartok in Japan, so I appreciate the existence of good group...
On 5/1/05, Aki Fujishiro <leioporu5@...> wrote: [snip] ... Yes indeed. I play the concerti often while on the way to work to get my day started. ... --...
... Konichiwa Aki-san! No, I don't think Bartok studied Galician music. And the bagpipe is an istrument which has been played by almost all of european ...
... This is not a music-historical non-sense. Bartok knew and loved a lot of Bach's pieces. You know that Bach composed many church cantatas, but also some...
Pieru-san, Arigato-gozaimasu! Thank you for giving me some interesting facts, adding Bartok's connection with Portugal. The first case in 1906 is curious, and...
Where does that quotation take place in the 2nd PC? ... "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard...
... The "Final" movement of Stravinsky's Firebird (I mean the Suite) begins with the following notes, played by the Horn solo: F# E D# F# C# B (E D# C# E D#...
Tetzlaff and Jarvi played the 2nd Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony this past fall (an incredible performance) and used the original ending. It was ...
Hello everyone, I am just going to be slightly off topic here. During the years of World War II, many people escaping the war in Europe sailed from Lisbon as...
... it ... end ... Government ... to ... there ... know. ... I remember reading a biography of Bartok and I thought he emigrated in 1939, not 1940. I may be...
... According to his son Bela Bartok Jr., in 1940, Oct.12. Bartok and her wife Ditta travel from Budapest (Hungary) to Geneva (Switzerland) by railway, through...
... I think you are right, Christine. However, I try to give you a hasty translation (surely rough and not very exact) of an excerpt from a letter Bartok wrote...
Hello Pierre and Eric, Many thanks for your reply to my questions and queries. Also Pierre thank you for the translation of the letter. It must have taken many...
Hello everyone, The following message is reproduced from the Bohuslav Martinu List. Eric, I hope this is OK seeing that there is relevance to the Bela Bartok...
Thank you Christine for reproducing this here. It was, as a matter of fact, reading Kaufmann's book that led to curiosity on my part as to what Bartok's music...
Fellow Bartokians, Did you know our favorite composer's name was actually Bela Viktor Janos Bartok? Well, I didn't until a very short while ago (literally) ...
Christine Gleeson wrote about a book, published in 1957, ... As a complement of the interesting epoch-testimony of this book, I can add this information: In...
Hello everyone, Thank you Pierre for this very informative information. Is this volume "Bela Bartok, the Man and his Work" published in English? It would make...
... Alas no. I think it exists only in French, and must be out of print since a long time. If you look for books about Bartok, you should consider books ...
It's Menotti. He'll be 94 this July. I did a paper on him in my authorship of cinema class. Scott ... === message truncated === Scott Andrew Hutchins ...
Yes, Menotti it is ... and did you know that he was born on what would have been Gustav Mahler's 51st birthday ... except Mahler had died 7 weeks and a day...
The night music in the middle of the second movement of the second piano concerto has always stood on a level all its own with me. I never went looking for...
I have the recording of the three Piano Concerti with Kovacevich as soloist and Colin Davis conducting, Philips (Silver Line Classics) 426 660-2. It's...
