It was one day in 1978 that flutist Carol Wincenc discovered some captivating Romanian folk tunes and asked me to make an arrangement of them for us to play at her forthcoming Naumberg recital (4/23/1979). I certainly loved this music and the idea of this project, but I thought that Daniel Paget was the right person for the job. What he accomplished was nothing short of magnificent, using the actual tunes but creating all the instrumental color, ornament, rhythm and texture around them and building the whole into a monumental virtuoso entertainment. To re-live this world of improvisatory folk music on flute and harpsichord with Carol has been a rare pleasure. One of the delights and challenges of Romania! is the uninterrupted accelerando that drives the last half of the work. In three decades - dozens of performances - it has never been the same twice. I measure Carol's magnetic attraction to it by the ride back to New York City from a performance we did in Long Island some years ago. Carol was driving and we were listening to the tape in the car; I was watching her foot slowly press the accelerator closerand closer to the floor.