The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Part I. Essays
6. Out of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music 3
7. Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed? 64
8. The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary 79
9. Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945 101
10. Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama 119
11. The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok 149
12. Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s 172
13. Part II. Writings bt Bartόk
14. Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Béla Bartόk 203
15. Béla Bartόk: An Interview by Dezső Kosztolányi 228
16. A Conversation with Béla Bartόk 235
17. Part III. Writings About Bartόk
18. Recollections of Béla Bartόk 243
19. A Change in Style 276
20. Bartόk's Third String Quartet 278
21. Bartόk's Foreign Tour 282
22. Two Bartόk Obituaries 290
23. A Selection of Poems Inspired by Béla Bartόk
24. Cantata profana 296
25. With Thundering Steps: Listening to BartόK's Second Piano Concerto 297
26. Joy 298
27. Béla Bartόk 299
28. Bartόk's String Quartet No. 5 300
29. Bartόk's Farewell 301
30. Bartόk's Homecoming 302
31. Bartόk 302
32. Index of Names and Compositions 307
33. List of Contributors 313