Africa and More! - Nancy Vieira / Djénéba & Fousco, Müpa, 28.11.2018, 8 pm I have an ambivalent feeling about talent shows. Of course, I know what is shown there is mostly an illusion – that those average-looking people with tremendous voices don’t just walk in the studio from the...
Can someone be a classical composer if he plays in a hardcore band that has “shit” in its name? Or who invents a new instrument with robots playing on it? And who writes soundtrack for Hunger Games? And what about a man who dislikes being called “classical”, but everything listed...
World festival, competition, gala and a stunning experience of classical music… in one? Yes, this is a real thing, coming soon in the Müpa Budapest between May 18 and 21, and it’s called the International Choral Celebration. Thousands of people will turn up at several locations and concerts – professional...
Social media have left their mark on classical music too. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have quite a say in how a musician presents themselves. The upcoming generation of world stars seems to care little either for tried and trusted methods, or for our what we’re used to. Or are we...
A more colourful example of the ability of music to transcend cultures could hardly be found: Columbia, Uzbekistan, and Austria meet in Budapest, in the spirit of Beethoven, Bartók, and Stravinsky. An orchestra dear to our hearts, but once barred for decades from performing in the Hungarian capital, arrives in...
Though a few decades ago Herbert von Karajan, the conductor who long defined the profile of the Berlin Philharmonic, declared that women’s place was in the kitchen, not a symphony orchestra, there is no corner of classical music where they are not present. Nowadays more and more women are taking...
I’ve heard that Kurt Elling is a quite busy artist who is hard to reach even through his manager to answer some e-mail questions. I can’t even imagine how does a Grammy-awarded jazz singer, composer and lyricist live his life. But I guess he has little time for long, coffee...
Many people think that church music is something old, boring, left from the period of powdered wigs, not being able to tell anything new to today’s society. For years, as a member of permanent or temporary church formations, I’ve been trying to persuade people to give this genre a second...
You don’t have too much luck if you search for informations on Dona Onete in English. Her website is only available in Portuguese, her biography is brief, and there is hardly anything else about her in the big music databases. She is so humble and hiding, as if she herself...
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