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Posthuman visions, Sleeping Beauty dead, dreams coming true – at this year’s Art Capital
#Art Capital #ArtMill #Balázs Deim #Dmitry Kavarga #dream #Eva Schlegel #Ferenczy Museum #film #Gábor Gulyás #Hungarian Surrealism #Kriszta Nagy #press conference #Sleeping Beauty #Surrealism #Szentendre #theatre #visual art #visual art festival #Zsolt Várkonyi

Posthuman visions, Sleeping Beauty dead, dreams coming true – at this year’s Art Capital

On the 25th of May, Art Capital, Middle-Eastern-Europe’s biggest visual art festival, launched in Szentendre. The central topic of this year is ‘dream’, with 18 new exhibitions and 52 programmes waiting for visitors until the 1st of September. The press conference of the day was held on the 24th May,...
Traumas of the past come to light in the sordidest ways – interview with Kristóf Kelemen
#contemporary theatre #drama #Hungarian Acacia #Hungarian theatre abroad #Kristóf Kelemen #Observers #play #public life #public sphere #Trafó #Zsolt Várkonyi

Traumas of the past come to light in the sordidest ways – interview with Kristóf Kelemen

Contemporary Hungarian cultural policy doesn’t like when artists show you a mirror. This is also a bad reflex from the times of state socialism, as the main point of democracy is dialogue – says Kristóf Kelemen, director and dramaturge of the Radnóti Theatre, whose two plays run in the Trafó...
Why do musicians fear Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3?
#Ádám Brandenburg #Ádám Cser #composer #Martín García García #Miskolc Symphonic Orchestra #Müpa #pianist #piano #piano concerto #piano concerto no. 3 #Rachmaninoff #Sergei Rachmaninoff

Why do musicians fear Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3?

Ádám Cser and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, 28 April 2019, Sunday, 7:30 pm „I wrote it for elephants”, said Sergei Rachmaninoff, according to some sources, to Vladimir Horowitz. Josef Hoffmann, original recipient of the piece, never played it in front of the public, and Gary Gaffman was sad to remark...
These three films can profoundly change audience’s view on dance – interview with Gábor Pintér
#contemporary dance #dance #dance film #documentary #film #Gábor Pintér #modern dance #Parallel Art Foundation #postmodern dance #Trafó #What is Dance? #Zsolt Várkonyi

These three films can profoundly change audience’s view on dance – interview with Gábor Pintér

What is dance? is a series of programme, launched in the Trafó on the 8th of April, broadcasting three documentaries on three important personalities of US-American postmodern dance. Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance was the first, followed by Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers. The final film, Feelings are Facts:...
Survival instinct: best Nature shot at the World Press Photo Awards
#award #Bence Máté #frog #nature #photo #photography #Survival instinct #winner #Word Press Photo Awards

Survival instinct: best Nature shot at the World Press Photo Awards

Hungarian photographer Bence Máté's photo "Survival instinct" won first prize in Nature category at the World Press Photo awards, the organisers said in Amsterdam on Thursday. The photo shows frogs struggling to the surface, surrounded by frogspawn, after their legs have been severed for culinary purposes and they were thrown...
Bauhaus: The Style We Have Never Known
#Bauhaus #Bauhaus100 #BSF Magazine #Budapest Airport #Budapest Spring Festival #Dániel Somogyi-Tóth #Dávid Zubreczki #Kodály Philharmonics #Kristóf Baráti #Ludwig Museum

Bauhaus: The Style We Have Never Known

Bauhaus: The Style We Have Never KnownThe Bauhaus celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, and here in Hungary, we somehow consider the style our own. In Budapest, there is no end to centennial walking tours, while countless exhibitions on the topic keep opening. But what is Hungary’s connection to this...
Free Music Under the Open Sky
#Akvárium Klub #Akvárium Spring Terrace #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Endre Dömötör

Free Music Under the Open Sky

Free Music Under the Open SkyTwenty-three concerts, including well-known international performers, the crème de la crème of Hungarian pop, and exciting newcomers: between the 5th and 22nd of April, get ready to spend your early evenings in the heart of Budapest at the Akvárium Spring Terrace in the company of...
Temperamento Ungherese
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Concerto Budapest #János Ács #József Ács #Leoncavallo #Leonóra Mörk #Pesti Vigadó #Requiem

Temperamento Ungherese

Visitors to the Budapest Spring Festival will have the chance to indulge in a world premiere: the Concerto Budapest will play Leoncavallo’s Requiem, never before performed with a symphony orchestra, at the Budapest Vigadó. The reconstruction of the work spanned ten years, and was carried out by József Ács, the...
Bach’s Keyboards
#András Schiff #Balázs Szokolai #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Endre Tóth #Ji #Johann Sebastian Bach #Liszt Academy #piano

Bach’s Keyboards

Countless theories, different approaches, and readings keep circulating about how Bach should actually be played. According to legend, when the composer himself was asked about the secret of his keyboard technique, he explained that there was nothing especially difficult about it: one simply had to play the right notes at...
Presenting All the Beauty of Vertical Dance
#Adél Hercsel #BANDALOOP #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Kálvin Square #Müpa #STRINGS #Thomas Cavanagh #Trafó

Presenting All the Beauty of Vertical Dance

With their special technique of dancing on cables, they have conquered countless bridges, historical buildings, and modern skyscrapers over the years. They debuted in Hungary two years ago on the glass wall of an office building on Kálvin Square, and now, BANDALOOP is back, but this time with a traditional...
Bohemian Lace and Russian Frills
#Ábrahám Consort #Aura Musicale #baroque #Bohemian #Borbála Dobozy #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Concerto Armonico #Czech #Ferenc László #Festetics Palace #Hof-Musici Baroque Ensemble #Hungarian National Museum #jabot #Russian

Bohemian Lace and Russian Frills

The Jabot Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival’s invitation to indulge in musical time travel, will once more be held in splendid concert venues in Budapest’s Palace District. This time, the focus is on musicians far removed from their tsarist and imperial homelands, in a series of concerts of early music,...
He Comes, He Sees, He Conquers
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Cinderella #Erkel Theatre #Iolantha #Máté Csabai #Müpa #Prokofiev #Tchaikovsky #Valery Gergiev

He Comes, He Sees, He Conquers

“He gets bored when things are too well planned,” said stage designer George Tsypin of his close colleague Valery Gergiev. This phrase is a telling thumbnail sketch of the essence of the Russian conductor, whose calendar has room for two hundred concerts annually, press conferences, and even political events, but...
The Sherlock Holmes of Russian Opera
#Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Dániel Mona #Dezső Ránki #Gergely Dubóczky #János Bojti #János Kovács #Khovanschchina #Maurice Ravel #Müpa #Mussorgsky #Pesti Vigadó

The Sherlock Holmes of Russian Opera

Find a story that’s full of mysteries. Stick with it till you solve them all, even if this takes decades. And finally: share it with others. Music researcher János Bojti’s investigative work, spanning over forty years, is so systematic in nature, we might even call it the “Bojti Method”. Thanks...
Crackling fire, mulled wine, Satan ~ A short story by Susan Anwin
#Crackling Fire #Mulled Wine #Satan #short story #Susan Anwin

Crackling fire, mulled wine, Satan ~ A short story by Susan Anwin

Crackling fire, mulled wine, Satan by Susan Anwin Based on a true story. Despite the fact that I travel extensively, for this essay I chose to write about Hungary, my country of origin, and my favourite place in it and perhaps in the whole world; Dobogókő, a mountainous area not...
Glittering like gold – five personalities, five special-themed concerts
#baritone #Barnabás Kelemen #Béla Bartók Concert Hall #brass #Gilbert Varga #gold #gold standard #Ludwig Mittelhammer #Mayu Kishima #Müpa #Pannon Filharmonikusok #Péter Frankl #PFZ #piano #Szabolcs Zempléni #Tibor Bogányi #violin

Glittering like gold – five personalities, five special-themed concerts

Gold Standard – a series of the Pannon Philharmonics in the Béla Bartók Concert Hall, Budapest A gold medallist Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved playing the violin – and she did it on an extraordinary level. By the time she was nine, the old...
Budapest opens festival season in Europe – 39. Spring Festival launches on 5 April
#A38 ship #ballet #baroque #Bauhaus #Bebel Gilberto #Borbála Dobozy #Budapest Airport #Budapest Spring Festival #Cinderella #classical music #Csaba Káel #Czech #Czech Republic #David Lynch #electropop #Emanuel Gat #Enikő Nagy #Ferenc Liszt #Ferenc Snétberger #Festetics Palace #Fülöp Ránki #Gábor Goda #Georg Anton Benda #GoGo Penguin #Hungarian Radio Orchestras #jabot #Jan Dismas Zelenka #János Ács #János Bojti #János Kovács #jazz #Ji #Josef Antonín Štěpán #Joseph Calleja #Judith Hill #Khovanschchina #Kirill Gerstein #Kodály Philharmonics #Kristóf Baráti #LEJ #Liszt #Liszt Academy Symphonic Orchestra #Mariinsky #Michelangelo #Mōrk #Müpa #Museum of Fine Arts Budapest #Mussorgsky #National Dance Theatre #opera #Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart #POKET #press conference #Russia #Russian #Sándor Kányádi #Sztalker Csoport #Tchaikovsky #Teodóra Bán #Tevje #The Gate of Wind #Trafó #Urania #Valery Gergiev

Budapest opens festival season in Europe – 39. Spring Festival launches on 5 April

BSF 2019 – #THISISMYPLACE This year again, 39-year-old Budapest Spring Festival offers its usual huge amount and diversity of programmes and venues, from 5 to 22 April. The main topics are Liszt, Russian culture and the 100-year-old Bauhaus. After we attended the press conference in the new main hall of...
They forgot that Hitler and Eichmann were also Austrians
#András Dési #antisemitism #Austria #documentary #Enikő Nagy #Kurt Waldheim #nazis #Ruth Beckermann #second world war #The Waldheim Waltz

They forgot that Hitler and Eichmann were also Austrians

How can someone have moral strength, somebody that you trust when he claims that he has supreme power, without any control above him? And why people don’t realize that these two concepts are not really hand in hand? Is it worse to be a war criminal or to lose credibility?...
A series of Susan Anwin’s short stories is launching at Art Here Art Now tomorrow
#literature #short story #Susan Anwin

A series of Susan Anwin’s short stories is launching at Art Here Art Now tomorrow

Let us introduce you writer Susan Anwin whose short stories are going to appear on our website from tomorrow on for six weeks! My name is Julianna Bihari, I use the pen name Susan Anwin in writing. I was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. I received a B.A. and an M.A....
Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience
#Branford Marsalis #Enikő Nagy #jazz #jazz quartet #Kenny Kirkland #Müpa #Sting

Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience

Branford Marsalis returns to Budapest, Müpa, 5 March 2019, 7:30 pm Branford Marsalis is one of the most renowned American jazz saxophonists. Apart from his jazz quartett, he also plays together with pop musicians and at classical concerts, and he even appeared in a film by Spike Lee. He played...
Twenty-two students join professional musicians at the Classical Chill Out concert
#Attila Szabó #Classical Chill Out #classical music #International Spring #Kodály Központ #Pannon Filharmonikusok #PFZ #students #university #University of Pécs

Twenty-two students join professional musicians at the Classical Chill Out concert

Classical Chill Out, Kodály Centre, 13 March 2019, 9 pm Attila Szabó is in a perfect position to raise young people’s interest in and fondness for classical music in Pécs. After seven years with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra where he worked as chief ticket agent, now he’s at the Centre...

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