Bartok Remembered

Bartَks virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra, his opera <em>Duke Bluebeards Castle</em>, and his <em>Mikrokosmos</em> for solo piano are some of the works by this great Hungarian composer that are admired and performed throughout the Western world. Yet Béla Bartَk, the man, remains something of an enigma--remote, ascetic, uncompromising in his person and in his art.