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Bartók meets ska: PASO launches its new album!
#Béla Bartók #KRSA #Müpa #PASO #ska

Bartók meets ska: PASO launches its new album!

Ska, which originated in the Jamaican music movement of the 1960s, was originally based on brass and was a blend of jazz, rhythm and blues and Caribbean musical influences. Over the years, it has evolved and taken on characteristics of many other musical styles, such as rocksteady, reggae, punk rock...
Honorary Hungarian Uri Caine plays the Bartók Project with friends
#Bartók Spring #Béla Bartók #Győző Nagy #Müpa #Uri Caine

Honorary Hungarian Uri Caine plays the Bartók Project with friends

There was a time when musicians kind of felt obligated to create their own versions for jazz standards. Then there was a time when playing covers seemed like a lack of originality. Nowadays, luckily, those days are gone and nobody cares if a new band becomes famous with a good...
Péter Eötvös: I ran away from Bartók’s works to avoid falling into repetition
#Bartók Spring #Fanni Molnár #Müpa #Péter Eötvös #Sleepless

Péter Eötvös: I ran away from Bartók’s works to avoid falling into repetition

Péter Eötvös was fifty when he started writing his first opera, Three Sisters. He completed his latest operatic work, Sleepless in 2020; following its première in Berlin, a concert performance of the work arrives on stage at Müpa. How many books does he read when looking for a subject, and...
Monsieur Bartók: The influence of Béla Bartók in contemporary jazz
#Bartók Spring #Béla Bartók #Gábor Köves #jazz #Müpa #Uri Caine

Monsieur Bartók: The influence of Béla Bartók in contemporary jazz

In the afterlife of Béla Bartók’s music, the expiry of copyright protection for his works (2016) brought a significant change. In the years that have elapsed since, there have been a number of outstanding adaptations of his compositions, into which new life has been breathed – not surprisingly – in...
Dénes Várjon speaks beautifully about Bartók’s music
#Anna Rácz #Bartók Spring #Béla Bartók #Dénes Várjon #Müpa #Nóra Fehér

Dénes Várjon speaks beautifully about Bartók’s music

Imagine a premiere where the audience is screaming in outrage, throwing stink bombs, and the noise they make is so loud that the orchestra can't be heard. This is what we would have seen and heard if we had entered the Cologne Opera House in 1926 for the premiere of...
Béla Bartók at the bus stop ~ by Nóra Fehér
#Béla Bartók #Nóra Fehér #short story

Béla Bartók at the bus stop ~ by Nóra Fehér

Béla Bartók at the bus stop As my mind went for a walk under the blanket of night, it came across an old acquaintance. He was sitting cross-legged, grey and avuncular in a bus stop pavilion, smoking a cigarette. His mouse-coloured eyes shared the look of those who see the...
Bartók Spring comes with a Bosch exhibition and special premieres
#Bartók Spring #Müpa #Nóra Fehér #Zsolt Várkonyi

Bartók Spring comes with a Bosch exhibition and special premieres

Although we are just entering winter, Müpa Budapest is already preparing for its 2nd Bartók Spring International Art Weeks, an all-arts festival in April 2022, which will feature many well-known figures from the Hungarian and international art scene, and a host of premieres. The first names of the festival were...
Levon Eskenian: Bartók got to Armenians only after the genocide
#Armenia #Gurdjieff Ensemble #Levon Eskenian #Müpa

Levon Eskenian: Bartók got to Armenians only after the genocide

Four and a half years ago, I had a very impressive discussion with Levon Eskenian, leader of Armenian Gurdjieff Ensemble (with a Hungarian article as a result). They were founded to play ethnographically authentic arrangements of the music of the legendary spiritual leader G. I. Gurdjieff, but through that work,...
The Concerto reveals a lot about an ill Bartók’s mental and physical state
#Bartók Spring #Concerto #Müpa #Tamás Juronics #Tamás Márok

The Concerto reveals a lot about an ill Bartók’s mental and physical state

Béla Bartók plays a very important role in the career of dancer-choreographer Tamás Juronics. He composed a dance play on The Wooden Prince which was presented at the Szeged Open Air Festival in front of the cathedral, and he also created a piece on the basis of the Dance Suite....
The music of Bartók is my native language, says violinist Barnabás Kelemen
#Barnabás Kelemen #Bartók Spring #Jonian Ilias Kadesha #Katalin Kokas #Vashti Mimosa Hunter #Zsuzsanna Deák

The music of Bartók is my native language, says violinist Barnabás Kelemen

The power couple of Hungarian music scene, Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas, celebrate the return of post-lockdown life with a Béla Bartók marathon. The violinist husband and wife play every single violin quartet by Bartók (the first part was on 20 May and the second will be on 23 May)...
Conductors from all over Europe – Bartók Spring starts with online broadcasts
#Bartók Spring #classical music #conductor

Conductors from all over Europe – Bartók Spring starts with online broadcasts

You know that one when the Belgian, the English, the Italian and the Russian go in a… well, nowadays rather nowhere. Four conductors, just like their orchestras and singers, still cannot travel to Budapest to take part in the first Bartók Spring, so they will all broadcast a wonderful concert...
Music of the wild happiness of romance – concerts on the birthday of Béla Bartók
#Béla Bartók #birthday #Müpa #Müpa Home #Zsuzsanna Deák

Music of the wild happiness of romance – concerts on the birthday of Béla Bartók

After Bach’s birthday last weekend, today we celebrate the last one of the “Four Big B’s” (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók). And it is even a round anniversary: the composer who defined 20th century music fundamentally, not only in his homeland Hungary but internationally, was born 140 years ago. We can...
Kálmán Balogh and the cimbalom players of the future stir special emotions in our hearts
#cimbalom #Kálmán Balogh #Müpa #young musician

Kálmán Balogh and the cimbalom players of the future stir special emotions in our hearts

On Sunday evening, the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall at Müpa Budapest will be filled with the incomparable, familiar yet constantly surprising sound of the cimbalom. The legendary teacher of the Academy of Music will present seven young cimbalom players in an evening entitled Kálmán Balogh and the Cimbalom Players...
Christmas mood with a talented organist and an angelic choir
#Advent #Anna Rácz #Béla Bartók Women's Choir Szeged #christmas #Müpa #Zsolt Máté Mészáros

Christmas mood with a talented organist and an angelic choir

It has become quite a usual thing for Hungarian classical music lovers to be able to choose from a wide range of concerts to celebrate the upcoming festive season. But even in this wide selection, it is rare to find a programme that offers a wider range of works to...
Rising Stars to feature a Hungarian young talent again
#ECHO #Júlia Pusker #Mathis Kaspar Stier #Müpa #Rising Stars #Sean Shibe #Sebastian Heindl #Sonoro Quartet

Rising Stars to feature a Hungarian young talent again

Year after year, the Rising Stars series showcases Europe's most promising young musicians in the continent's most prestigious concert halls. Thanks to the initiative of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO), an association of the most outstanding performing arts institutions, five talented musicians will be performing at Müpa Budapest again...
Old horror, live music: why to watch “silent” movies
#Müpa #Nosferatu #Sebastian Heindl #silent movies

Old horror, live music: why to watch “silent” movies

I think many people don't like Halloween because they don't understand what it's really about. It's not just about scaring each other for the fun of it, but more about making fun of our greatest fears, passing and death, on the eve of All Saints Day, and thereby being set...
Dóra Barta: I was pondering about time, whether it exists
#Dóra Barta #Falling Out of Time #Müpa

Dóra Barta: I was pondering about time, whether it exists

Dancer and choreographer Dóra Barta, who has received several prestigious awards and the title of Merited Artist, founded her own company in 2008 under the name Badora Dance Company. This time, the independent theatre company is preparing a monumental, disturbing and philosophical show entitled Falling Out of Time, which will...
György Orbán: my Requiem is a tribute to a childhood friendship
#György Orbán #Müpa #Requiem #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

György Orbán: my Requiem is a tribute to a childhood friendship

Two Requiems. In one case, the composer died during the process, and in the other, fortunately, both the composer and the recipient are alive and well. I talked to György Orbán, a contemporary composer born in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mures), about how his 2004 Artisjus Prize-winning Requiem came about, and what...
Szakcsi Jr: everyone will remember my father in a slightly different way
#Béla Szakcsi Lakatos #commemoration #Müpa #Szakcsi Jr

Szakcsi Jr: everyone will remember my father in a slightly different way

We have had a sad anniversary on 2 October: it has been more than one year now since Béla Szakcsi Lakatos passed away. A man whose life work is literally impenetrable and incomprehensible, who continuously shaped and reformed Hungarian musical life, and who is considered an eternal inspiration by thousands...
Lusine Grigoryan and the neverending Hungarian-Armenian dialogue
#Armenia #Levon Eskenian #Lusine Grigoryan #Veszprém

Lusine Grigoryan and the neverending Hungarian-Armenian dialogue

Two years ago during our interview, Levon Eskenian, leader of the Gurdjieff Ensemble, explained how they had to change their concert programme because his wife, pianist Lusine Grigoryan, was not allowed to travel to Budapest in the midst of the pandemic. Time did justice to her, however, as she will...

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