One of Hungary's most popular old folk tunes is called "The Peacock." In the late 1930s, Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly took the kernel of the tune and wove a set of orchestral variations around it.

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On this week's episode, we're listening to music of Hungary, including Johannes Brahms' recreations of Gypsy tunes, György Ligeti's avant-garde offerings, and folk- inspired music by ...

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As a boy in the dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. “I would stand ...

We're in concert in the Wyoming mountains, where conductor Michael Stern is in charge of the orchestra at the Grand Teton Music Festival. It's a high-altitude performance of the "Dances of Galanta," ...

Zoltan Kodaly searched for the roots of gypsy music he heard as a child and made the material his own. The Dohnanyi Orchestra Budafok presents Kodaly's work alongside the folk music that inspired it.

In 1923, it had been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan ...