https://www.rundel.de/read_and_listen/11266

When writing his BALKAN POLKA, composer Franz Watz travelled through time into his own past. As the child of Danube Swabian parents, Watz grew up in the Banat - a region that can be found in the present-day states of Romania, Serbia and Hungary. When he visited festivals with his mother and father as a young boy, he sometimes heard the other children singing songs in a language he didn't understand. With BALKAN POLKA, Franz Watz is now drawing on th...