In the early 20th century, composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) revolutionized the musical world by allowing the folk songs of his native Hungary to shape his orchestral compositions. Elliott Antokoletz, professor of musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how the composer created sounds and rhythms unimagined by his contemporaries, in the process becoming a founding father of modern music. UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance students will perform Bartók’s works. Co-sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.