The strict division between academic music and folk music is evidently unjustified and it lays the groundwork for a sheer non-comprehension of music art. However, it is true that the consumeristic society makes evanescent any competent approach to what is folk but not manipulated yet. Therefore I have approached the intuitions of Bartok and Kodali, here in their capacity of ethnomusicologists: I have been fascinated by pre-industrial, rural culture melodies. This is why in my performance, called Folkollection, music from territories, I propose Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, but also some Jewish melodies, especially from the Spanish area, as well as music from Celtic tradition. Celtic culture, obviously, has nothing to do with "pre-industrial rural society": Celts are simply pre-Roman Europe. They sound arcane. Finally, I have included in my concert the great Mutto's blues for harp: I feel they are very "folk".
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