by Robert Leeper In the years before the World War I, Béla Bartók traveled the countryside in his native Hungary and the surrounding areas collecting, cataloging, and even primitively recording […]
by Robert Leeper Photo credit: Hiroyuki Ito, The New York Times After the Calder Quartet's last show at the Met, which was clean but lacked a certain edge, they regrouped
by Robert Leeper California's Calder Quartet appeared Saturday night at the Met Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the first in a series of programs pairing Bartók's string quartets with music by contemporary
Amidst all my running around this weekend, it almost slipped past me that today would have been Bartók's 131st birthday. As timeless and transcendent as Bartók's music continues to be, sometimes we
When I visited Budapest earlier this month, the last stop I made on my way back to Vienna was Béla Bartók's residence, high up in the Buda hills. The house,
