On Bartók and the Dangers of Presumption
"The Refuge" for Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024
Public Valedictory
80 years ago today, the Boston Symphony closed its Friday afternoon concert with the premiere (click image) of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation as a gesture to the ailing, impoverished composer, it became his most popular work. He died 10 months later in New York at 64 from leukemia. Tri…
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