IN THE WEEK that Bratislava hosted its jazz festival, folk singer Zuzana Mojžišová, gave a live performance at Slovak Radio to christen her third album, entitled simply Zuzana Mojžišová. BBC radio saw ...

DURING its 55th anniversary celebration last October, Lúčnica danced to a 36-member orchestra. Current and former musicians of the folk dance and music ensemble gathered together to perform only for ...

According to Anna Macek, “the pride of Czechoslovakia” is its largest and most beautiful mountain – Tatra. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the pride of Bethlehem’s Slovak community is the ...

Though closely related to vocal forms, instrumental folk music in Slovakia possesses its own, specific characteristics and functional, social and socio-psychological relations. This paper addresses ...

At 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9, the Family Folk Machine presents Dreaming Iowa at the Englert Theatre, the first in a two-part ...

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia writes about the communists’ role in preserving Slovak folk culture. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World records, Ralph Rinzler Folklikfe Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be ...

Despite competition from Musikfest and the Muhlenberg Medical Center fair in Bethlehem, several hundred people still made it Sunday to the 11th annual Slovak Day at Klein’s Grove, Bath. Featured bands ...

The artists of the ensemble Russian Song talk to mos.ru about how their group was formed, how it turned into a theater and about its life today.