Transylvania, notwithstanding Count Dracula fans, is a beautiful country with gentle rolling hills in northern Romania (formerly Hungary). I remember it well, having toured there in 1963, and as our touring company mistakenly sent the harpsichord to Warsaw instead of Bucharest, I had several nights off as the Clarion Orchestra toured this lovely area. Dinner one night, I recall, consisted only of delicious pastries. In a WNYC radio interview on the Ask the Composer series at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (7/2/1944), Bartók explained that "Evening in Transylvania is an original composition, that is, themes of my own invention, but it's in the same style as a Hungarian Transylvanian folk-tune. There are two themes - the first one is a parlando-rubato rhythm and the second one is more in a dance-like rhythm. The second one is more or less an imitation of a peasant flute playing, and the first one, the parlando-rubato, is in imitation of a vocal melody. The form is A-B-A-B-A."