That he found in Hungarian folk music, according to clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer, whose new album explores the composer’s lifelong obsession with the music of the Magyars.

The 65th annual Hungarian Festival returns. Read about this and more in this week's Talk of the Towns community column, featuring news and notes from Brecksville, Broadview Heights and North Royalton.

The event is presented by the American Hungarian Friends of Scouting and will feature plenty of food, live musical entertainment, colorful ethnic folk costumes, folk dance lessons and more.

It originates from a desire in Hungary in the early 1900s to preserve and promote traditional Hungarian music from the invading culture of Germany and Austria, and eventually developed into a new ...

The folk music of Eastern Europe was disruptive, dissonant, and dizzyingly complicated on the rhythmic level. The turn to folk music was not, for Bartók, nostalgic, but rather a way forward.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music program set the stage for a unique group of students this year: Hungarian folk ...

Bartok's obsession with folk music fueled his career. The Hungarian band Muzsikas joins the Takacs String Quartet for a concert of Bartok's own music, and the peasant dances and that inspired him.

A 26-year-old Venezuelan conductor made the orchestra the embodiment of Hungarian folk music while at the same time giving it an unmistakable Latin accent — and a new and different life.