Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
GREAT CONCERT TOURS ON TWO CONTINENTS (1 922-1 931 ) 1926 31 January - Bartok and his wife join in with a letter to Béla Bartok Jnr s long account to the widowed Mrs Béla Bartok. They are happy about the arrangement of the pension, and they also let her know of a new event: Bartok is going to perform at the Radio, twice in the springtime and six times next season. He asks his mother to look for an acquaintance in Pozsony who has got a radio (radio transmissions started at this time in Hungary, too) in order to be able to listen to the Budapest performances. 1 February - Bartok is negotiating with the Budapest Opera House concerning the performance of The Miraculous Mandarin, which is being prepared for a March premiere. 9 February - He writes conductor George Georgescu in Bucharest with details regarding the performance of Rhapsody there. He also forwards the programme for his concert having been planned (eventually cancelled) for 24 February. - In the evening, at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy) he plays Elegy No. 2 and the 2nd series of Kolindas as No. 9 in the programme of Nyugat editor Oszkár Gellért s author s evening. 14 February - He writes Matica Slovenská in Turócszentmárton: he is glad that they made progress and promised the last third of the Slovakian material for September. - The settlement of the previous half years accounts of 23 million crowns arrives from Universal Edition (equivalent of about 3 months’ salary of his). 11 millions of this amount are royalties of about 25 performances of Dance Suite and 365 copies of its pocket orchestral score. 19 February - He travels to Bucharest. 20 February - However, his Bucharest recital announced for this day is cancelled, to Bartoks great annoyance. 22 February - At the Bucharest Palace Athenaeum he plays Rhapsody, conducted by George Georgescu. 24 February - Instead of the concert originally planned for Bucharest, 249
