Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
World War II. Second and Third American Tour (1939–1945)
1 942 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE the interests of Hungarian citizens in the United States; all postal services and connections between Hungary and the USA stop. For the remainder of the war Bartoks contacts with his home country are cut off definitively. 1942 7 January - In Evanston (Illinois) Mr and Mrs Bartok give a concert of two pianos at the Scott Hall of Northwestern University’s Cahn auditorium. Programme: Friedemann Bach’s Sonata in F major, Couperin’s Allemande, Domenico Zipoli’s Suite, Mozart’s Fugue in C minor (Zipoli got printed in the programme as author of this piece, too), Debussy’s Lindaraja, Colin McPhee’s Ceremonial Music from Bali, Bartok’s four pieces from Microcosmos, and Brahms’ Sonata in F major Op. 34. Reviews are well mixed, but more on the bad side. 21 January - From New York Bartok writes Douglas Moore about further elaboration of the Parry collection planned for 1942/43. 23 January (mistakenly dated 1941) - He writes their concert programme for Amherst College to Professor Henry Mishkin. 23 February - In Amherst (Massachusetts) concert of two pianos at Amherst College. Programme: Christian Bach’s Sonata in G major, Domenico Zipoli’s Suite, Friedemann Bach’s Sonata in F major, Colin McPhee’s Ceremonial Music from Bali, Liszt’s Concerto pathétique, five pieces from Microcosmos (six are printed in the programme), and the two pianos version of Suite No. 2. 28 February - From New York he writes Carl P. Wood and Lee P. Sieg that his commission at Columbia got extended for another semester until the end of 1942, so he can go to Seattle only for school year 1943/44. 2 March - He writes Wilhelmine Creel in Seattle that he regrets not having met in Chicago (on the occasion of the concert in Evanston), and that 476
