Lucian Ban, John Surman and Mat Maneri bring a fresh treatment — and musical chemistry — to the bare-bones folk transcriptions of the 20th-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. This is FRESH AIR.

SARANAC LAKE — Historic Saranac Lake announced an upcoming concert by Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri titled “Transylvanian Dance” at the Left Bank Cafe. The event, which will take place from 5-7 p.m. Sept.

It's been six years since Mat Maneri last appeared on ECM, collaborating with singer Robin Williamson on the British traditionalist's exploratory The Iron Stone (2007); even longer since the violist ...

Note: Stacked potatoes is a substantial and filling regional dish from Transylvania. Ask 10 different Transylvanian cooks to make it and you’ll probably end up with 10 slightly different versions.

The Transylvanian breed cat, the first of Romanian origin recognized internationally, was presented at the WCF WorldShow in Timișoara, which took place on February 21-22.  The event brought to the ...

Neglected masterpieces aren't all that unusual (no reading public is perfect), but one that runs to almost 1,500 pages would seem hard to lose sight of. Starting in 1934, Count Miklós Bánffy strapping ...

Cheese lovers, we have a new one for you. Our local Aldi is currently stocking an interesting cheese marketed just for Halloween. It's a pale yellow, firm wedge sold under the Aldi Happy Farms brand, ...