Visitors to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall today may opt to listen to a traditional doina, an epic ballad, or taste mamaliga, a cornmeal mush. That’s because the 16th annual Romanian Festival is today on ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Britain's Prince Charles has joined in a traditional folk dance during his visit to Romania, Italy and Austria, a trip seen as an effort to reassure European Union nations ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intricate weave of Mat Maneri’s raspy viola and Lucian Ban’s full-bodied piano has been a jazz pleasure for ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

AMESBURY — For the 13 teenaged dancers and musicians of the Romanian folk dance ensemble Plaiurile Dornelor, their visit to Amesbury High School last week produced one highlight born of something that ...

Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

Britain's Prince Charles, left, joins a traditional folk dance in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 30, 2017. Britain's Prince Charles toured the Village Museum during his visit to Romania, Italy ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles joined in a traditional folk dance Thursday during a visit to Romania, the first stop in a three-nation trip seen as an effort to reassure European ...