Melinda Berlász

Melinda Berlász

MELINDA BERLÁSZ Music historian, retired senior research fellow at the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Melinda Berlász is laureate of the Sándor Veress Prize, the László Lajtha Prize and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Award. She is a member of the Musicology Committee of the Academy of Sciences, of the Academy’s General Assembly, and of the OTKA Social Sciences Board. Her main research interest includes the history of Hungarian music in the 20th century. She is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY’S ‘JOURNEY OF TRIUMPH’ IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA

Dedicated to Zoltán Kodály, on the 50th anniversary of his death and his visit to Santa Barbara, and to Ernő Dániel, on the 40th anniversary of his death In 1972, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Zoltán Kodály’s death, Muzsika, a Hungarian magazine dedicated to classical music, invited