Toronto Summer Music Festival
Festival Insiders Events Series

Discussion presentation: 

"Bartok: Paths Not Taken"

This special Bartok event explores recently uncovered, an extraordinary, alternate movements that Bela Bartok wrote for his 6 quartets, but quietly shelved away in favor of the music we know today. 

This presentation will include projections of Bartok's manuscripts of these recoverd movements for quartets 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, illustrated by the Borromeos.

This remarkable material was uncovered by first violinist, Nicholas Kitchen, through his work in the Bartók Archive in Budapest.

All manuscripts will be shown with the special permission by Bartók’s son, Peter.