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...
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:...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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?...
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 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...
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...
Gilbert Varga, the British conductor with Hungarian roots, found his way “back home” last February when he performed in Hungary. That day, it seems that something touched him deeply while playing with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, in their concert hall at their hometown Pécs. In October, it was a breaking...
The Land of Smiles, Müpa, 1 February 2019, 7 pm We caught the incredibly nice opera singer, Karine Babajanyan, for an interview about Ferenc Lehár’s operetta The Land of Smiles, where she sings Lisa’s role. The piece had its premiere in Shanghai at fall 2018. This monumental coproduction of Müpa...
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