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Japanese lady found alternative ways that led to Hungarian composer – interview with Ryoko Aoki

Péter Eötvös is internationally well-known and acknowledged, and he’s even Artist of the Year at the Müpa (he will perform with the Hungarian National Philharmonics, and conduct his own pieces soon). He’s kind of a headliner whose name makes audience pay attention. There is another name, though, on the margin...

Dark Sister, Part 2 ~ A story by Susan Anwin

Dark Sister (Part 2) by Susan Anwin Wednesday Next day he came to me with his face veiled in illusion, with Esty in tow.  "Today you’re firstborn", he said before I could lift my hand to check. "Oh. And why is that?" "We are seeing Lily and the babe!" Esty...

International jury awards Brigitte Kowanz’s work for the 13th Cairo Biennale

The internationally renowned artist Brigitte Kowanz has been honoured for her installation "United in Diversity" for the 13th Cairo Biennale with the "Biennale Prize 2019". The internationally renowned jury, consisting of Catherine David, deputy director, Musée national d’art moderne (MNAM) – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Teresa Grandas, curator, MACBA Museu d’Art...

Troubled history through the eyes of two artists from ex-Yugoslavian states

DATES, a collaborative project by Roman Uranjek and Radenko Milak began in 2014, after realizing that both of them tied their artistic work to the domain of cultural and political activism. Each of the two artists was born and raised in Tito’s Yugoslavia and lived through its political collapse, the...

Great things are coming to the reconstructed Trafó next year – interview with director Beáta Barda

Now it is a system closed from its upper side, with new people entering it each year, so the only way to finance newcomers might often be to take money from the older ones – says Beáta Barda, executive director of the Trafó whom we asked about the current situation...

Amazonas, carnivals, rainforests – a composer’s fabulous life in music

Magicians of Music, PFZ, Kodály Centre, 25 May 2019, 6 pm Heitor Villa-Lobos still counts as the most famous South American composer. During his 68 years of life, he composed more than 2000 pieces, played three instruments and also conducted. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1887, in...

Europe through the eyes of a Finnish and a Hungarian girl – interview with Jenna Jalonen

Long Time No See!, Trafó, 13 May 2019, 8 pmOfficial selection of Festival d’Avignon and Aerowaves 2019Nominated for Rudolf Lábán Prize 2019  I wrote her in English as I only knew that she is a Finnish dancer. To my great surprise, she answered in Hungarian, and we even started to...

Jazz Spring welcomes three great female jazz musicians this year

Ida Nielsen & Band, Festival Theatre, 3 May 2019, Friday, 8 pmJane Monheit and the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, 4 May 2019, Saturday, 8 pmTia Fuller's Diamond Cut, Festival Theatre, 5 May 2019, Sunday, 8 pm Jane Monheit and the Song Book Jane Monheit was born...

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

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:...

The Far East Draws Near

The splendidly vivid, non-narrative performance by the National Dance Company of Korea has travelled many thousands of kilometres to join us, while the new premiere by Artus whisks us off to the Far East on the wings of the wind. The two productions meet in the middle: Sagunja and Tai...

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...

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...

Positive Energy ~ A short story by Susan Anwin

Positive Energy by Susan Anwin She dreamed about Fox again. He didn’t seem entirely human with his long, slender limbs, narrow hips, and with a bit of imagination, she could almost see pointy ears under that shock of red hair. "One day you’ll return to the hidden world and leave...

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

“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...

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...

Tomoki Sakata: I admire Liszt and Hungary is my all-time favorite

Péter Dobszay and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Müpa, 24 February 2019, 7:30 pm Thinking about he is only 26 and how much he is praised already by masters like Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vásáry Tamás, Ivan Moravec or Leslie Howard, he still seems to be a quite humble man. Instead...

It’s not about you in the music, it’s about music in yourself

She answers the phone and I’m astonished how beautiful her voice is. I can imagine her leading a meditation group or helping a cranky kid to fell asleep. Sometimes she tells me to stop her if she talks too much, but it’s simply not much at all: I simply love...

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