Last night (May 5, 2000) I heard one of my favorite groups in concert.
Muzsikás consists of 3 fiddlers, a bass player and vocalist Márta
Sebestyén, all from Hungary. Augmented by classical violinist and
mimimalist composer David Balenescu and two terrific dancers, they
performed a program based on
Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> In an act that amounted to charity, Bartok was appointed a research fellow
> in anthropology without teaching duties at Columbia University. According
> to an article by Paul Hume in the March 22, 1981 Washington Post,
> "Unhappily the funds, limited at best, that paid
Late one night in the early 1960s, I turned on Henry Cowell's weekly
ethnomusicology radio show on WBAI, (the local affiliate of the radical
Pacifica network) and heard some of the most electrifying music I have
heard in my life. To this day, the sounds echo in my mind. Cowell, who was
playing Bel
