Life Archives - arthereartnow.com https://arthereartnow.com/category/life/ Art website - film, literature, music, theater, fine arts Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:09:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 141696643 Young Woman and the Sea Review: Breaking Barriers and Jabbing Jellyfish https://arthereartnow.com/2024/11/10/young-woman-and-the-sea-review-breaking-barriers-and-jabbing-jellyfish/ https://arthereartnow.com/2024/11/10/young-woman-and-the-sea-review-breaking-barriers-and-jabbing-jellyfish/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:09:33 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5258 Daisy Ridley stars as Gertrude, and she does so with all the earnestness of someone who might have actually been born in a swimsuit.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2024/11/10/young-woman-and-the-sea-review-breaking-barriers-and-jabbing-jellyfish/feed/ 0 5258 “Call Me Kate” Review: Celebrating the Coolest Icon in Hollywood History https://arthereartnow.com/2024/06/29/call-me-kate-review-celebrating-the-coolest-icon-in-hollywood-history/ https://arthereartnow.com/2024/06/29/call-me-kate-review-celebrating-the-coolest-icon-in-hollywood-history/#respond Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:11:15 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5142 Hepburn won four Academy Awards, which she repeatedly said she did not care about. "Put it in a bag or something," she said.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2024/06/29/call-me-kate-review-celebrating-the-coolest-icon-in-hollywood-history/feed/ 0 5142 Renaissance poet Bálint Balassi meets an actor and an orchestra https://arthereartnow.com/2023/03/02/balint-balassi-mupa-early-music-artur-kalid-tercina/ https://arthereartnow.com/2023/03/02/balint-balassi-mupa-early-music-artur-kalid-tercina/#respond Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:15:53 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=4617 Balassi still belonged to the generation who wrote poems to melodies, so they are a great match to early music.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2023/03/02/balint-balassi-mupa-early-music-artur-kalid-tercina/feed/ 0 4617 Korngold, the genius whom Hollywood loved but Vienna expelled https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/30/korngold-hollywood-film-classical-music-concert/ https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/30/korngold-hollywood-film-classical-music-concert/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:57:55 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=4581 A heart attack delayed his journey back to Europe with two years. His symphonic serenade was played by the Vienna Philharmonics in 1950.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/30/korngold-hollywood-film-classical-music-concert/feed/ 0 4581 Prokofiev Marathon: is piano a percussion instrument?! https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/23/prokofiev-marathon-mupa-piano-percussion-instrument/ https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/23/prokofiev-marathon-mupa-piano-percussion-instrument/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:19:05 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=4573 Prokofiev Marathon in the Müpa! Meet the genius who sometimes composed 14 hours in a row and skipped meals for it...

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2023/01/23/prokofiev-marathon-mupa-piano-percussion-instrument/feed/ 0 4573 Chick Corea composed this work shortly before his death https://arthereartnow.com/2022/03/11/chick-corea-concert-jazz-rip-mupa-composition/ https://arthereartnow.com/2022/03/11/chick-corea-concert-jazz-rip-mupa-composition/#respond Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:46:59 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=4090 Chick Corea was scheduled to return to Müpa Budapest in November 2021, with a piece to celebrate the institution's 15th anniversary.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2022/03/11/chick-corea-concert-jazz-rip-mupa-composition/feed/ 0 4090 Laramie L. Bahr: One hasn’t really lived until they have faced and cheated death https://arthereartnow.com/2022/02/04/laramie-l-bahr-one-hasnt-really-lived-until-they-have-faced-and-cheated-death/ https://arthereartnow.com/2022/02/04/laramie-l-bahr-one-hasnt-really-lived-until-they-have-faced-and-cheated-death/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2022 06:59:00 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=4011 Laramie L. Bahr discovered a true love for teaching, something he had done a great deal of as a soldier, but not on the same level.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2022/02/04/laramie-l-bahr-one-hasnt-really-lived-until-they-have-faced-and-cheated-death/feed/ 0 4011 Lost his son, could never move on: an astonishing and tragic life https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/26/gyorgy-cziffra-memorial-year-concert-janos-balazs-mupa/ https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/26/gyorgy-cziffra-memorial-year-concert-janos-balazs-mupa/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:06:56 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3781 Pianist György Cziffra described himself as a man who had set out from shocking poverty to conquer the world's music stages.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/26/gyorgy-cziffra-memorial-year-concert-janos-balazs-mupa/feed/ 0 3781 A married couple on the stage of heaven https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/04/mari-simon-gabor-meszoly-gyula-boszormenyi-eulogy-necrology/ https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/04/mari-simon-gabor-meszoly-gyula-boszormenyi-eulogy-necrology/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:47:54 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3712 Mari Simon, actress, and Gábor Mészöly, writer and dramaturg, recently passed away. Writer Gyula Böszörményi says farewell to them.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2021/10/04/mari-simon-gabor-meszoly-gyula-boszormenyi-eulogy-necrology/feed/ 0 3712 Jazz musicians need to be as open as the genre itself! – remembering János Gonda https://arthereartnow.com/2021/08/24/janos-gonda-jazz-hungary-concert-commemoration-remembering-mupa/ https://arthereartnow.com/2021/08/24/janos-gonda-jazz-hungary-concert-commemoration-remembering-mupa/#respond Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:05:46 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3654 He did so many things that it is almost impossible to imagine how it could be only one person’s life work.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2021/08/24/janos-gonda-jazz-hungary-concert-commemoration-remembering-mupa/feed/ 0 3654 We celebrate György Kurtág’s 95th birthday – with a four-day festival https://arthereartnow.com/2021/02/18/kurtag-gyorgy-birthday-95-marta-love-romance-music-online-broadcast/ https://arthereartnow.com/2021/02/18/kurtag-gyorgy-birthday-95-marta-love-romance-music-online-broadcast/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:27:41 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3439 The audience can get closer to the ever-shining, pure and enormous love and everlasting romance that kept Márta and György together.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2021/02/18/kurtag-gyorgy-birthday-95-marta-love-romance-music-online-broadcast/feed/ 1 3439 Postumus exhibitions in two Budapest venues keep Tamás Konok’s legacy alive https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/27/tamas-konok-rip-postumus-exhibitions-ludwig-museum-ani-molnar-gallery/ https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/27/tamas-konok-rip-postumus-exhibitions-ludwig-museum-ani-molnar-gallery/#respond Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:32:10 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3365 It is painful that Tamás Konok, at the zenith of his creativity, did not live to see the opening of these exhibitions.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/27/tamas-konok-rip-postumus-exhibitions-ludwig-museum-ani-molnar-gallery/feed/ 0 3365 The living memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky will stay with us forever https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/17/dmitri-hvorostovsky-memory-remember-video-concert-opera-aria-evening/ https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/17/dmitri-hvorostovsky-memory-remember-video-concert-opera-aria-evening/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:03:36 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3343 Dmitri Hvorostovsky lived 55 years, with around 30 constantly on stage. His legacy consists of many albums and videos.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2020/12/17/dmitri-hvorostovsky-memory-remember-video-concert-opera-aria-evening/feed/ 0 3343 The way of non-forgetting the late poet Szilárd Borbély https://arthereartnow.com/2020/09/30/szilard-borbely-dispossessed-poetry-poem-night-literature-mupa/ https://arthereartnow.com/2020/09/30/szilard-borbely-dispossessed-poetry-poem-night-literature-mupa/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:46:48 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=3198 Literature is no easy, joyful game for Szilárd Borbély, be it poetry or prose. It is more like self-discovery, self-crucifixion...

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2020/09/30/szilard-borbely-dispossessed-poetry-poem-night-literature-mupa/feed/ 0 3198 Amazonas, carnivals, rainforests – a composer’s fabulous life in music https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/25/amazonas-carnivals-rainforests-a-composers-fabulous-life-in-music/ https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/25/amazonas-carnivals-rainforests-a-composers-fabulous-life-in-music/#respond Sat, 25 May 2019 15:46:44 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=2321 Heitor Villa-Lobos applies Johann Sebastian Bach's characteristic harmonies and counterpoints to Brazilian folk music, and also honoures Mozart...

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/25/amazonas-carnivals-rainforests-a-composers-fabulous-life-in-music/feed/ 0 2321 Éva was murdered with 13, now her diary is published on Instagram https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/02/eva-was-murdered-with-13-now-her-diary-is-published-on-instagram/ https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/02/eva-was-murdered-with-13-now-her-diary-is-published-on-instagram/#respond Thu, 02 May 2019 13:00:27 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=2212 Actors and actresses recall what happened to Éva in 1944 in Hungary: from discriminative laws through the ghetto until the transports to Auschwitz.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2019/05/02/eva-was-murdered-with-13-now-her-diary-is-published-on-instagram/feed/ 0 2212 They forgot that Hitler and Eichmann were also Austrians https://arthereartnow.com/2019/03/08/waldheim-they-forgot-that-hitler-and-eichmann-were-also-austrians/ https://arthereartnow.com/2019/03/08/waldheim-they-forgot-that-hitler-and-eichmann-were-also-austrians/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:00:02 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=1945 After Waldheim was elected, big discussions started. Nowadays, nobody would call Austria a victim of the war. The history books changed.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2019/03/08/waldheim-they-forgot-that-hitler-and-eichmann-were-also-austrians/feed/ 0 1945 Here is Erik Satie, maybe the only real hero of the (not so) belle époque https://arthereartnow.com/2019/01/13/here-is-erik-satie-maybe-the-only-real-hero-of-the-not-so-belle-epoque/ https://arthereartnow.com/2019/01/13/here-is-erik-satie-maybe-the-only-real-hero-of-the-not-so-belle-epoque/#respond Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:00:52 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=1847 Easy Grace – PFZ, Müpa, Béla Bartók Concert Hall, 25 January 2019, 7:30 pm „We should have a music of our...

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2019/01/13/here-is-erik-satie-maybe-the-only-real-hero-of-the-not-so-belle-epoque/feed/ 0 1847 I Hear America Singing https://arthereartnow.com/2018/04/27/i-hear-america-singing/ https://arthereartnow.com/2018/04/27/i-hear-america-singing/#respond Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:00:06 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=1553 From his mid-20s right until his death, Leonard Bernstein was America’s favourite, and the pride of the nation: the first American-born conductor to conquer the world. He understood and felt the American style...

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