"For most people, music is a kind of bath to wash in," laments the 83-year-old patriarch of Hungarian music, Zoltan Kodály. "They react with their nerves, not their minds." With saintly dedication to the idea that good music is "the food of the soul," Kodály has labored most of his life to make it understandable as well as enjoyable. To souls nourished on dissonant modern music, Kodály's brand may seem like rather stale strudel. His themes remain resolutely melodic, and his rhythms never stray far from Slavic dances. Still, few 20th century...
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