Hello from Bela Bartok's No.1 Fan in Australia

This is the first time I have had a special interest page all for my self and to share with the world. As I write this I am listening to the Romanian Folk Dances by Bela Bartok, perhaps the most well known of his works today. But Bela was a most prolific writer and collector of Eastern European and North African Folk Music which he used in his classical works. You need to hear the original folk music to find out what Bela's music is all about.

This is short and sweet but I will add more of my reflections about Bartok and other folk music collectors and composers such as Percy Grainger, an Australian composer and folk music collector in the British Isles round about the time that Bela was collecting his music. I often wonder if the two of them ever met!