Jazz Articles about Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri

Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri at the Northampton Center for the Arts

by Tyran Grillo
October 8, 2025

Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri Northampton Center for the ArtsNorthampton, Massachusetts October 1, 2025 In the early 20th century and throughout his life, composer Béla Bartók endeavored to document the folk songs of Hungary and beyond. Of the approximately 10,000 examples he preserved on wax cylinders and later transcribed, a significant handful reflected the dying traditions of his native land, along with the people and places in which they might have been consigned were it ...