Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Dance (A multimedia performance) (Fire Museum Presents)

Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri:

Transylvanian Dance (A multimedia performance)

Drawing from their acclaimed 2024 ECM Records duo release Transylvanian Dance, pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri will re-imagine live through improvisation the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of early 20th Century folk songs from Transylvania bringing back to life century old songs using video projections featuring rare archival footage, audio from the original Edison wax cylinder recordings, handwritten manuscripts and photographs taken by Bartók himself in his field trips.

The 20th century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók loved the folk music of Transylvania in western Romania. He famously experienced an epiphany in 1904 when he heard an 18-year-old woman singing songs from her Transylvanian village and was soon on the road in search of more music. Between 1909 and 1917 he transcribed thousands of melodies, recording hundreds of folk musicians on wax cylinders and would call the completion of his…