We're going to spend two hours with composers from central and eastern Europe this week.
We'll hear music from Renaissance Hungarian and Polish composers whose names are lost to us. Works of ethnomusicologists like Bartok and Kodaly, music of emigre composers like Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, pieces by 19th century superstars like Liszt, and lots more.
The Russians are coming ---- and so are the Romanians, the Transylvanians, the Slovaks and others, and we'll still barely scratch the surface of this rich olio of cultures.