ELLIOTT ANTOKOLETZ studied violin at the Juilliard School of Music and re-
ceived his Ph.D. in musicology at the City University of New York in 1975. From 1973
to 1976s, he taught theory and chamber music at Queens College, where he was also
a member of the Faculty String Quartet. He has been professor of musicology at the
University of Texas at Austin since 1976. He is the author of four books -- The Music
of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music (1984),
Béla Bartók: A Guide to Research (1988), Twentieth-Century Music (1992), and George
Perle: A Bio-Bibliography (forthcoming). He is currently writing two new books:
Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók ( Oxford University Press)
and The Music of Georg von Albrecht. He is also editor of the International Journal of
Musicology. He received the Béla Bartók Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the
Hungarian government in 1981.

PÉTER BARTÓK was born in 1924 in Budapest, Hungary. He studied music with
his father privately. After moving to the United States, he studied electrical engi-
neering at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He has operated Bartók Records,
producing long-playing records of various composers. Since 1986 he has been
working with corrections of published editions of Bartók's music.

DOROTHY LAMB CRAWFORD studied at the New England Conservatory, the
Vienna Academy of Music, Harvard University, UCLA, USC, and Vassar College. As
a concert performer she specialized in twentieth-century vocal works. She has taught
on the music faculty of UCLA Extension and directed seminars for the Arnold
Schoenberg Institute. From 1987 to 1994 she was host for broadcast interviews on
Los Angeles classical radio stations. She is the author of Expressionism in Twentieth-
Century Music ( 1993, with John C. Crawford) and Evenings on and off the Roof: Pio-
neering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1971 ( 1995).

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