Bela Bartok had a breakthrough moment in his early 20s, when he heard a peasant woman singing folk songs. From that point on, he collected, recorded (on an Edison phonograph) and notated hundreds of ...

In 1987, after she built her house in Berlin, Vt., pianist Sylvia Parker began hearing rumors about the neighborhood’s musical history. “People started asking me, did I know anything about a musician ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

The KSO string section present the music of Bartok alongside Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s “Primal Message”. Concertmaster William Shaub and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra string section present the music ...

The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

At the start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old ...

Historic Saranac Lake recently received a donation of personal effects that once belonged to composer Bela Bartok, who spent three summers in the... Mar 18, 2022 — Historic Saranac Lake recently ...

In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Cutting through the marketing noise and TikTok ...

Rejoice, fans of Béla Bartók. One of the nation's most acclaimed string quartets is bringing the music of your man to Elizabethtown College not once but six times over two nights. Translation: six ...