The Kaláka Ensemble, whose poems set to music, film scores and concerts, formed a backdrop for the youth of several generations, is now forty years old. It is to the credit of this group that the catchy tunes of television serials such as Hungarian Folk Tales and Tales of King Matthias have become a part of the very fabric of our everyday lives. They gave Hungarian and foreign audiences alike an understanding and love of the works of Attila József, Sándor Weöres, János Arany, Endre Ady and Dezső Kosztolányi – to name only a few of the poets that they have helped to popularise. The members of the band are particularly good with children, as the little ones are given the opportunity to join in the performance, thus gaining admission to a musical wonderland. Over four decades Kaláka has written more than a thousand songs and released 25 albums. They have given several thousand concerts, and travelled the world. They don\'t even have any trouble enchanting children abroad. Since they were all pupils of the Lorántffy Zsuzsanna Musical Elementary School, the Kodály method of musical education is a part of their life and an important means of approaching audiences that consist of children. Although in the past decades they predominantly explored the world of ancient and modern Hungarian music, they have always been open to the musical traditions of other nations, and this is reflected in the Indian, Yiddish and Latin-American influences that can be detected among Kaláka\'s works.
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