Category: World Sounds, Folk Music

The balalaika is both prince and pauper, an instrument born in a Russian village and bred in the Tsar’s palace. In its construction, the music it plays, and its sound there is a mixture...

It’s a big country, this U S. of A.High, wide and long, it sprawls up against the shores of two oceans. Tying this far-flung space together are the highways, rolling ribbons of concrete and...

In the Square (with the Krokodiloes) and around Cambridge the new sound in singing groups is that of The Krokodiloes. The name is derived from one of the emblems of The Hasty Pudding Institute...

Once heard, Harry Belafonte will be remembered. He is a voice afire with an almost apostolic fervor. His burning need—to return to the people a sense of the magnificence of their own cultural heritage....

We received a letter from Hong-Kong yesterday which said in part “your Echoes are really excellent recordings — please accept our congratulations on your achievement.” Since the issuance of Feyer’s first record a little...

WILL GLAHE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Internationally famous accordion soloist and band-leader Will Glahe makes his debut in phase 4 stereo with a vivid musical portrayal of the sights and scenes of Bavaria and neighboring...

BILLBOARD, April 1954 noted the release of another Feyer record with this comment: “He plays in an unaffectedly simple manner which is almost a definition of sophisticated taste”. This simplicity — so easy to...

Ballads and folk songs, Vol II. (1949). VOCAL WITH GUITAR AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC SERIES Edited by Alan Lomax The man who has written most frankly about Burl Ives is Burl Ives himself. The fellow...

That dashing young man with the fine voice and the keen sense of humor, Roger Miller, offers you here a choice sampling of the type of song styling that has soared him to sensational...

GEORGE FEYER, born in 1908, studied at the Budapest Conservatory under Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Szekely. Being recognized as one of the most promising young concert-pianists in his country, he caused quite a sensation when...