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The New York Times Béla Fleck, a 15-time Grammy winner, is widely recognized as one of the world's premier banjo players. He's here to perform some songs for us. Join us in the comments for analysis from NYT reporter Jon Pareles.

Béla Fleck Performance

107 months ago

The New York Times Béla Fleck is widely recognized as one of the world's premier banjo players. He's doing a soundcheck before performing a live concert for us. You can submit your questions for him, and watch his full performance here: http://nyti.ms/2oze7Rs

Soundcheck with Béla Fleck

107 months ago

The New York Times Béla Fleck, a 15-time Grammy winner, is widely recognized as one of the world's premier banjo players. He'll join us for a live performance and audience Q&A at 4:30 p.m. ET today. Submit your questions ahead of time.

Live Performance and Q&A With the Banjoist Béla Fleck

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The banjoist Béla Fleck will be at The New York Times headquarters on Wednesday, April 5, to perform songs and answer audience questions at 4:30 p.m., Eastern time. Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The Times, will be in the room to ask those Read more ... questions. He will be joined by Caryn Ganz, The Tim...

107 months ago

Slate.com While there were good coaches and good gymnasts in the United States when the Karolyis arrived, there wasn’t an expectation of success.

Bela and Martha Karolyi Transformed American Gymnastics With a System From the Eastern Bloc

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This piece is adapted from The End of The Perfect 10 by Dvora Meyers, published by Touchstone, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. When Bela and Mar ...

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Maribel Martinez Hoy es el día! Toma una foto familiar a la hora de la cena. Postea la foto al hashtag #mifamiliacomoladenazaret

130 months ago

HelloGiggles We CANNOT. STOP. SINGING. ALONG. Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn know their '80s metal!

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn dazzle us with their ‘Final Countdown’ cover

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If you've been dying to teleport back to the days of metal hair bands (and we know you have), today is your lucky day. Kind of. In honor of The Onion's A.V. Club video series, "Undercover," banjo legend Béla Fleck and his wife Abigail Washburn, join Read more ... ed forces to cover the iconic '80s classic, "The Fi…

130 months ago

The Economist Many consider Bela Bartok's six string quartets, completed between 1908 and 1939, to be second only to Beethoven’s.A long with Franz Liszt, he is regarded as one of Hungary’s greatest composers. http://econ.st/1OkS6wR

A sonata in two movements

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Bela Bartok. By David Cooper. Yale University Press; 436 pages; £25. To be published in America by Yale in June. ALONG with Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, who died in...

131 months ago

National Geographic Our editor's video of the day: These elephants in Bela Bela, South Africa, have a special talent: the ability to sniff out traces of TNT brought to them from the battlefield.