The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist
1983movie38mReleased
Documentary
Director: Barrie Gavin
Overview
In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe, and he called his discovery 'a miraculous circumstance'. In this film the late A. L. Lloyd retraces Bartok's journeys through Hungary and Romania to rediscover that treasure of native music.
