THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 13, 1978 31
Detroit Symphony Introduces Israeli Composer Oedoen Partos
Detroit Symphony Orches- music and musicians in Is-
tra audiences last Saturday
rael.
night and Sunday were in-
Partos' "Netivim"
troduced to an important (Paths) led off the two pro-
Israeli composer, Oedoen grams which included a no-
Partos, and in the program table Beethbven and De-
notes were presented with hussy program for which
his analyses of _the status of the orchestra, under the di-
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was a student of the late
Mr. Partos, who died a year
ago.
A native of Budapest,
Hungary, Partos attended
the Liszt Academy of Mu-
sic, where he studied com-
position with Zoltan Kodaly
and violin with Jeno Hubay.
Following his graduation in
1925, he was active giving
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he became a viola virtuoso
and concertized on that in-
strument as well.
Partos settled in -pre-state
Israel in 1938 when Bonis
law Huberman, creator of
the Palestine Philharmonic
Orchestra, asked Partos to
be his principal violist. He
also was the violist of the
Israeli String Quartet.
In 1951, after gaining a
reputation as one of the
driving forces of the musi-
cal life of Israel, Partos was
appointed director of the
Rubin Academy of Music.
He resigned his post with
the Israel Philharmonic
(the former Palestine Phil-
harmonic) to devote himself
entirely to composition and
music education.
In 1961, Partos was ap-
pointed professor of musi-
cology at Tel Aviv Univer-
sity.
Unusual interest attaches
to the program notes which
included Partos' comments
on Israel's music. The
lengthy statement by Partos
in the program notes are:
"When I came to Pales-
tine, 'my first desire was- to
get to know the folklore of
the East. Sometimes I used
to ask myself why it was
- that I turned to the folklore
of the East and not to that
of Europe. Possibly it was
on account of the Zionist
upbringing I had had that I
looked towards the East
rather than in any other
direction. Perhaps it was
the European weariness
which had affected me. In
any case, I spent several
years of hard work getting
to know Sephardic and Iraqi
folk music and indeed any
other Oriental folk music I
could lay my hands on.
Here I should like to place
on record the debt of grat-
itude I owe to Bracha Tze-
fira, who greatly helped me
to find my way into that
new world. -
"It soon became clear to
Me that I could under no
circumstances carry on
composing as I had begun in
Europe. Realization of that
fact led to my producing
nothing over a period of
years. This, together with
the extent of my work in
other fields- of music, is ac-
countable for the relative
paucity of my output.
"When I consider the
problems which confront
me today, I find that they
concern musical form
rather than style, As I see
it, the style of our age has
already been clarified and
elucidated, and I think we
are inclined to make too
much fuss about it. The
question of form, however,
has by no means found its
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"The history of our own
folk music is that of the
various waves of immigra-
tion to this country (Israel).
Each successive wave
brought its own songs with
it, which are part and par-
cel of the country's way of
life. That is how the glom'
found its way into the coun-
try and made- itself at home
here despite its Bessarabian
origin. The same goes for
the- Russian folk songs
which came to us during the
Second Aliya. Those songs
have become our posses-
Sion, and the fact of their
existence is not disputed. Of
late we have witnessed the
penetration of distinctly Ori-
ental elements into our mu-
sical life and even into
Songs whistled in the
streets.
"I would say that what
our composers have in com-
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folklore."
Meanwhile, Marshall W.
Turkin, executive director
of the orchestra, announced
a 30 percent increase in
attendance in his year-end
report.
"We are pleased to report
increases on every front this
season," said Turkin, "in-
cluding a 13 percent overall
increase in season ticket
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thus far for subscription
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figure for all Dettroit Sym-
phony events at Ford Audi-
torium between Sept. 23 and
the close of 1977 was
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