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 )

1931

despite technical difficulties.

16 April - He writes Universal Edition about matters of dispute with AMMRE.

19 April - He tells his mother and aunt that the Temesvár

people

still keep silent, they don’t want the Hungarian inscription on the memorial tablet.

24 April - Upon his visit to his mother he brings a Paris article regarding String Quartet No. 4 which keeps achieving increasing success.

29 April - He gets elected honorary member ofthe Hungarian Ethnographic Society. In the evening he gives a lecture at the Society, entitled Gipsy Music? Hungarian Music?, which his mother also attends.

30 April - He brings her the reviews of the lecture, and they discuss again the extension of her residence permit.

8 May - He writes Zoltán

Baranyai that

for the meeting of the Intellectual Collaboration Committee of the League of Nations, scheduled for the beginning of July, he will arrive on the 5th, and he would not like to stay at a first class hotel, if possible.

10 May

- He notifies the secretariat of the Committee that he would attend the sessions.

11 May

- He writes Universal Edition that, although in Vienna on the 13th, he will confer with them only if getting an appropriate answer to his letter of 16 April.

13 May

- At his radio concert in Vienna he plays Kodály

’s Dances

of Marosszék, old

Italian pieces, and his own compositions (Ballad, Old Dance Tunes, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, 3 Burlesques, Song, Tambourine, AU’Ungherese, Rumanian Dance No. 1 ).

14 May

- Having terminated his contract with AMMRE, he modifies his agreement of 27 December 1928 with the Rózsavölgyi

and

Co. firm regarding the mechanical and gramophone rights.

18 May

- In the company of his mother and Mr and Mrs Kodály

he

listens to Händels

Oratorio

Esther, conducted by Jenő

Ádám. Mária

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