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 )

1928

singer is Crystal Waters in the programme, but Mária

Sámson according

to some of the reports. - He returns to Boston the very same day, and in the evening he gives a lecture and a Hungarian evening in the hall of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Programme: Kodálys

Epitaph

and Allegro vivace from Op. 3, then his own Sonata, Burlesque No. 1, Dirge No. 1, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, and Allegro barbaro,

furthermore Kodálys

Sonata

for Violoncello with Jean Bedetti.

17 and

18 February - Two consecutive performances of Piano Concerto No.

1 at the Symphony Hall of Boston, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. After the concert of the 18th he leaves for Detroit at 11:25 p.m.

19 February

- Detroit (Michigan). Lecture and Hungarian evening at the Institute of Art, with the 11 January programme. In the evening he leaves for Cleveland. Between Buffalo and Detroit letter to Ernő

Balogh.

20 February

- He arrives in Cincinnati via Cleveland. On the train between Detroit and Cleveland he writes his mother and aunt. Upon arriving in Cincinnati he participates in an orchestral rehearsal.

21 February

- In the morning another orchestral rehearsal in Cincinnati, then he returns to Cleveland.

22 February

- Lecture and Hungarian evening at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the programme of 11 January.

23 February

- He travels to Cincinnati again, where on the 24th and 25th in the Emery Auditorium he plays Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Frigyes

Reiner.

He stays at Hotel Gibson.

26 February

- He arrives in Chicago. He stays at Hotel Congress. He sends his last American greetings to his mother and aunt and János

Bu§i|ia,

also a letter to the Bechstein

firm.

27 February

- Lecture and Hungarian evening at the Chicago Cordon Club, with the usual programme.

28 February

- He leaves Chicago on the route Cleveland-Buffalo-New York, arriving in New York at 10:10 p.m.

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