43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Starting page: 19
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Obituaries: Since the last issue of folkMAGazin two important figures from dance house circles have passed away: Béres János 1930–2022 Kossuth award winning Hungarian flute player. Born in Gagybátor, in Hungary’s Borsod Country, he studied music, then danced and played flute in the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble early on 1951–53. He devoted the rest of his life to folk music. He worked also at Hungarian Radio from 1951 until 2005. His work was recognized with many national awards. Sebők Géza 1950–2022 was a Hungarian ethnographer from Pozsony (Bratislava), Slovakia. Printed here is part of an interview with him from 2019 where he tells about meeting the famous Hungarian dance ethnographers Pesovár, Martin and Lányi – as a young dancer with the group Szőttes after a performance in Eastern Slovakia.