In the frame of Hungary L!ve Talks on May 5th at 7.30 pm (GMT + 2) Beata Barda (Trafó House Budapest), Kristin Marting (HERE Arts Center New York) and Christina Liata (Onassis Stegi Athens) will share their thoughts about the current situation and about the long-time effects of the crisis...
The Coronavirus pandemic, as well as disrupting our daily routines, has had a significant impact on our vocabularies. Hitherto unfamiliar, barely used – or even previously non-existent – terms are now confidently peppered into our (mostly digital) conversations: social distancing, self-isolation, stockpiling, and panic buying. Hearing them conjures similar images...
In the first days of the quarantine, when my acquaintances in Austria, Hungary, then in Great Britain were suddenly stuck in their homes, my WhatsApp- and Messenger communication tremendously multiplied. I received many pictures and texts by people of my age but also the elderly, and among them, many to...
Stay home if you can. We have been hearing this all over for over a month now. Wash your hands, wear a mask and gloves if you still have to leave your home. And if you want a theatre or concert experience, you have the internet - I mean, if...
Anikó Petri is currently in her third year of her Art History studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This is her first publication on Art Here Art Now. Air pollution – the silent killer that is too abstract to truly grasp just how pervasive it is in our lives....
MÜPA CAN BRING SOME JOY AND COLOURS IN QUARANTINE LIFE Even some months ago we could not have imagined that we will have to stay at home and the online space will be our only way to consume cultural contents, even the greatest concerts and shows. COVID-19, however, changed our...
Müpa Budapest celebrated its 15. birthday this month. Although they had to cancel planned concerts due to the covid-19 situation, you can still celebrate the round anniversary with them. On their website, you can now enjoy 80 HD concert video recordings and 40 literature night audio recordings without registration. We...
I like the English description of the dance performance Girls, especially the alliteration part where it states that the girls are on this stage to please, to protest, to pacify. I still wonder, however, how could "to protest" completely disappear in the Hungarian translation and be replaced with “to be...
Dresdner Kammerchor and Le Concert Lorrain, Müpa, 19.12.2019, 7.30 pm Another Englishman who found his way to Germany! After James Wood, now it is conductor Marcus Creed who is coming to Budapest, and he is also bringing a German ensemble: the renowned Dresden Kammerchor that has been a well applauded...
It’s not easy to draw a portrait on Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel. This shining star of our times has been been performing on many stages all around the globe, but no matter where he is, a part of his heart is still in Wales. He shows his patriotism not...
Not so long ago, going to university was a privilege of a small percentage of the population. Same applied to listening to such music we call "classical" today - fun fact: in Hungarian, it is widely referred to as "serious music". But is it really that serious? Nowadays, public universities...
White glasses frames, piano and a unique voice I don’t want to sound clear and nice! – says Cécile McLorin Salvant, three-time winner of the Grammy award, who is about to come to the Müpa on 18th November. Originally a classical singer, she discovered jazz as the genre where she...
The Erdődy Chamber Orchestra has an innovative spirit in many ways, says violinist, concert master and artistic leader Zsolt Szefcsik, who is also a founder of the group. Their goal is to have a repertoire of 18th century Hungarian pieces that are usually not played in Hungary. Later, contemporary composers...
Sometimes I think dark humour was the only way for people to survive the Stalinist regime. How else would have it been possible to enrich our culture with a Master and Margarita, or with The Witness, an iconic Hungarian film depicting an antihero’s struggle through a show trial? But I...
Annunciation by Susan Anwin It started with that dream. There was this super-hunky guy, I mean, super-hunky, and he goes; "you are to bear a child." And I'm like; "yeah, don't think so. I'm only sixteen, gimme a break." And he goes, like he didn't hear me; "you shall name...
Klang der Stille - RIAS Kammerchor & Amadinda Percussion Group, Müpa, 20 October 2019, 7:30 PM Silence, calmness, spirituality, mystical experience of the divine - music from the 20th and 21st century evokes an experience which is with us since the very beginning of humankind. This is the joint project...
Two choreographies by János Feledi, winner of scholarship at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, will be performed on the stage of the Müpa on the 19th of October. One is Orpheus, a play premiered last year, and the other is a new piece called Revenge (Electra). We were talking to...
Myousic, Trafó, 11 & 12 October 2019, 8 pm There were some popular quotes from the works of Tamás Vekerdy, famous Hungarian child psychologist who passed away the day before yesterday. If a child listens to a tale, their own world will be created and turn to reality for them,...
“We believe that with some help, people can grow closer to music of our age” Gábor Hollerung, conductor of the Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra in Budafok, believes that neither romantic nor emotional music can go out of fashion. Characteristics of old music are also feasible in contemporary musical environment, and...
In the Caucasus, several local ethnicities have a music culture which is strikingly similar to Hungarian folk song types. Gergely Agócs has been conducting research in this geographical area for almost two decades. Paternal Branch, presented in the Béla Bartók Concert Hall on 24 September, investigates the Eastern connections of...
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