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Horror Vacui
Horror Vacui – selection from the contemporary art collection of Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler.
Since 1992 Zsolt Somlói (38) who works in the media industry and Katalin Spengler (40), journalist and editor have been active in art collecting and the art trade in Hungary. They began their collection of around 300 pieces of contemporary art ten years ago, in 1996. It is now of international interest and they are still adding to it. http://www.budapestitavaszifesztival.hu/btf2007/?t=h&id=1903&l=en
Budapest, April 7 (MTI) - Budapest's second annual Spring Wine Festival opened on Saturday at Budapest's City Hall park and will continue throughout the Easter weekend. Budapest deputy mayor Miklos Hagyo, opening the 30-million-forint event supported by the city council, said, "viticulture is an inalienable part of Hungary's cultural treasure, and however many times it starts to decline, it does so in tandem with the weakening of Hungarian culture; but when it really takes off again, like today, it presages a new flowering of the nation." Thirty winemakers are represented at the festival, which also includes food and cultural events. Entrance to the festival grounds is free of charge. At the opening, winemakers were given awards in three categories, as well as a special Palinka prize. (Palinka is Hungary's eau-de-vie). In the red wine category, Meszaros Cellar's 2003 Bodzasi Kekfrankos (Blue Frank) won first prize. For white, Valejjo Haraszthy Cellar's 2006 Zenit Kiralyleanyka (a local grape) was considered the best while in the desert stable, Arvay and Partners' 2003 Sweet Life Cuvee was feted. Marton and Daughters' 2006 Irsai Oliver grape palinka got the top trophy. Last year 28,000 people visited the festival and this year the organisers expect 35,000-40,000 foreign and Hungarian visitors to turn up. Chairman of the Hungarian Wine Academy Jozsef Sumegi told MTI that annual wine consumption in Hungary is around 3 million hectolitres and exports total 500-600,000 hectolitres. The producer price of wine averages at 150-200 forints per bottle and the sector generates revenues of 70-80 billion forints per year, he added. Sumegi noted that Hungarian winemakers are facing increasing competition at home. Wine imports were estimated at 60,000 hectolitres last year, which is expected to double this year.
19.04.THURSDAY @ 21 PM. A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side Incognito (UK) at Ship A38 The basic band of the acid jazz from the nineties renewed in all senses and strikes Hungary again! Old club-hits along with new soul-funk tunes for an incrazed dance-party in our Blue Music serie.
An acid jazz project with surprisingly deep roots in the 1970s jazz/funk/fusion world, Incognito was originally formed by Jean-Paul Maunick (aka Bluey) and Paul "Tubbs" Williams. Both were leaders of the late-'70s disco-funk group Light of the World, who scored several moderate British hits, including a cover of "I Shot the Sheriff." Just after the release of Light of the World's third LP (Check Us Out), Maunick and Williams shifted the lineup slightly and renamed the conglomeration Incognito.
Incognito debuted with the single "Parisienne Girl" and released the 1981 LP Jazz Funk, but was inactive during the rest of the 1980s. Maunick continued to write material for his group, even while working with Maxi Priest and others. (Williams later moved to Finland.) By the beginning of the 1990s, DJ legend and early Incognito fan Gilles Peterson had founded the Talkin' Loud label and he made Incognito one of his first signings. The 1991 single "Always There" (with vocals by Jocelyn Brown) became a Top Ten hit as part of Britain's booming acid jazz scene, prompting the release of Incognito's second album overall, Inside Life.
It was largely a studio affair, with Maunick and engineer Simon Cotsworth directing a large cast with many of the best musicians in Britain's fertile groove community. With 1992's Tribes Vibes + Scribes, Maunick added a more established vocalist, the American Maysa Leak. A cover of Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" became another Incognito hit, and the album ascended Britain's pop charts even as it rose on America's contemporary jazz charts. The third album, Positivity, became the group's biggest album success, with much attention across Europe as well as Britain. Leak unsuccessfully attempted a solo career with Blue Note, leading to the temporary vocal replacement Pamela Anderson (not the Baywatch pinup) on 1995's 100° and Rising. Leak returned, though, appearing on the following year's Beneath the Surface.
Incognito later expanded its discography with 1996's Remixed, 1998's Tokyo Live, and 1999's No Time Like the Future. The group's next two albums were again made without Leak, 2001's Life Stranger Than Fiction and 2003's Who Needs Love, which featured Brazilian vocalist Ed Motta. Leak returned for 2004's Adventures in Black Sunshine. Bees + Flowers + Things appeared at the end of 2006. The album was a mix of cover versions along with re-recordings of four Incognito classics. (by: John Bush, All Music Guide)
20.04. FRIDAY @ 9 PM A38 boat Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
PUTUMAYO GIPSY GROOVE TOUR - !DELADAP (A) WITH ROMANO DROM (H), DJ STANI VANA (A), DJ INFRAGANDHI (H)
world music, folk, electronica A night with real stunning roma music that meets electromic dance beats. !DelaDap comes with a new project, in which electronics will mix with Romano Drom’s authentic live roma folklore in an all-night long performance, also with the help of DJ Stani Vana and DJ Infragandhi. !DELADAP (A/CZ/H) For the last two years, Prague born producer Stani Vana developed his concept of cultural communication. He did not only cross borders but even centuries as he created his own facet of Jazz which you may call "Nu-Roma" or "Nu-Gipsy" or simply !DelaDap.
Culture - be it sculpture, writing, painting, speech or music - is all about migration. Meeting new people, learning, adopting new ideas, but keeping your roots. In ancient times, when ethnic groups consisted of not more than a few thousand people, they were all moving around - and thatís where our cultural diversity comes from. Later national borders were established and "keeping" for some reason became more important than "sharing".
But a minority kept moving and although they were always considered outsiders, over the centuries they were in fact "couriers" for cultural exchange. In the minority culture, and especially in their music, European cultural variety reflects as in a kaleidoscope.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Roma or "Gipsy" culture had a big influence on the development of Jazz. Think of three of Europeís most important Jazz musicians and chances are that at least two of them have some "Gipsy" roots. The ability to adapt, extract, and of course a deeply felt musicality are the real grounds for Jazz to grow.
Line up Stani Vana: programming, gadgets Eva Banyakova: vocals Simona Senkiova: vocals Stefan Banyak: violin Dezider Rigo: double bass Aleksander Stoic: guitar Hoffmann Endre: percussion
Discography Dela Paji, 2006 Cigani Ruzsa & Angelo, 2004 ROMANO DROM Romano Drom group was formed around father and son. The two Kovács Antals - who left Andro Drom group, where they spent fifteen years - made an own formation which has been on its own way for seven years now promoting Valachian Romani music from Hungary.
Romano Drom means in Romani language "The Road of the Gypsies" and presents a special cuiltural trasposition from generation to generation. Their art based on oral tradition and songs sung inn mother tongue mingle with new music influemces, as the sound of the bucket and the spoon meets the sound of the guitar, accordeon. and double bass.
Passion, honesty and energy are typical for the music of the Romano Drom, which proudly brings ahead the ancient traditions, but is also open to the inféluences of other cultures at the same time.
Line up Ifj. Kovács Antal: guitar, vocals, percussion Balogh József: ének, guitar Rafael Zsigmond: bucket, mouth bass Farkas "Harcsa" Róbert: violin Máté Kovács: derbuca, cahon
Albums Ande Lindri, 2003 Romano Trip, 2003 Ando Foro, 2001 Déta Dévla, 1999 DJ STANI VANA (CZ) The Prague-born Stani Vana has been living for more than a decade in Vienna, where he fouinded his !DelaDap titled project. The group melts together the authentic roma folklore with electronic dance music. Stani Vana as a DJ also works in the same style, making his nights flame with hot music from the Balkans. DJ INFRAGANDHI The all-eater and all-round DJ Infragandhi says a Prokofiev piece had such a shocking influence on him, that he started off with turning round the vinyls. His rocket-like carreer brought him to the Est FM radio, then Radio Café, where he is an editor now. He has been doing one of the most exciting programs of contemporary electronic music there since, the Deck Attack, and has been organising party-gigs under the same name too. He has been best known for his sets that include from jazz to world music, from funk to hiphop all desserts you can imagine.
21.04. STURDAY @ 9 PM A38 boat Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
House of Riddim (A) feat Jah Meek (D), Marlene Johnson (D), Jah Sesco (D), Riddim Colony (H), Love Alliance & MC Kemon (H) reggae, dancehall, dub, ska The Austrian roots-reggae band known all around Europe with selected frontmen. A total, all-night-long lasting reggae-madness on the A38 Ship. House of Riddim (A) The “House of Riddim” near St. Pölten, Austria, proves to be a first-class creation place of wonderful groovy Roots Riddims.
The crew already worked with Jah Mason, Gentleman, Dr.Ring Ding, Everton Blender, Joy White, Elijah Prophet, Turbulence, Perfect, Phenomden, Anthony-B, Million Stylez, Mykal Rose, Luthan Fyah, Spectacular, Ranking Joe, Luciano, Taffari, Ward 21, Marlene Johnson, Natheisha, Jahmali, Lukie D., Nosliw, D-Flame, Ziggi, Warrior King, Geoffrey Star, Cali P., Martin Jondo, Tolga, Heli Deinboek, Natty King, Mellow Mark, Pyro, Maxim, Sista Sonic, Rebellion the Recaller, Black Dillinger, Ras Charmer, Mono & Nikitaman, Ras Gonda, Natty Flo, Ganjaman, Jahcoustix, Al Pancho, Tom Lugo, Paco Mendoza aka Criminal, Dodo, Conscious Fiyah, Uwe Banton, Sun One, Junior Mango, Benjie, El Condorsito, Iriepathie, Thai Stylee, Jah Meek, Raggamaffia, Julian Levy, Cappuccino, Marlon B., Daddigon, Jahyute, Kimoe, Lyrics Factory, Brilliant, Bobby Buster, Ill Inspecta, Infinity, Shocking Murray, Anthony Locks, Victor Morgan, Likkle Lion, Jah Tiger, Fita Warri, Isha Blender, Jah Sesco, Riha, Edge Michael, 3gga, Sebastian Sturm, Ras Mac Bean, Wildlife, Utan Green, Mark Wonder, Tombo, Ronny Trettmann, Texta, Yalla Yalla Movement, Sister Progress, Rebel One, Junior Randy, Baron Black, I Trinity I, Dubiterian, ...
Paired with Austrian charm the House of Riddim offers a source of inspiration and creativity for the artists.
Line up Parvez Syed: keyboards Johannes Maria Knoll: guitar Mafred Scheer: bass guitar Sam Gilly: drums
Albums House of Riddim, 2004 Chapter II, 2005
Jah Meek (JAM/D)
Jah Meek was born and grew up in Robin's Bay on Jamaica's northeast coast in 1971. He began singing whilst at school and entered his first talent competition at the end of the 80s and came first. However, despite singing on local sound systems, he did not want to part of the hustling culture around local dub cutting studios on the island, prefering more spiritual vibes.
In the early 90s, JAH MEEK worked closely with his friend Jahmali, now one of Jamaica's leading roots artists, and they wrote and sang many songs together. JAH MEEK visited Germany firstly in 1994 and began to work with artists around the Frankfurt dub and dancehall scene such as Tricky Cris and the Raggamuffin Sound System with whom he made his first single "The Riddim" - Global Youth feat. Jahmeek in 1997. This single was broadcasted on VIVA and MTV and was number 10 on the radio chart list. JAH MEEK recorded his first track "Look Before You Leap" (Logic Sound Studios), which remains unreleased. A second visit to Germany a couple of years later led him to sing the lead vocals on the track "Riddim" by Global Youth which was released by Sony Music and the resultant video being featured on satellite television. Other JAH MEEK releases include "Open Your Mind" and "Each One Teach One", both released on Elektrolux Records in Germany.
Jah Sesco (D)
Satarted off his career in the early nineties in his native homeland Trinidad & Tobago as a reggae soundsystem MC. He moved in 1994 to Germany and joined the Loop Town hiphop project, and from 1997 on has been publishing with his Dutch-German formation, the RoughCut his albums that brought in huge success for him.
In the new millenium he joined the Frankfurt-located Riddim Wize Crew as a singer and their first album titled Keepin It Real has been relesed lately.
Marlene Johnson (D)
The all-round singer and author of lyrics turned up on the reggae scene as a backing vocal of Jah Meek. Besides reggae she is engaged in other fields as well, among others g witin the frames of the Frankfurt-located Electro Club Hacienda (Ministry Of Sound) can be heard on Samy Deluxe’s album her song released by the remarkable Future Sound Of Jazz serie. Her first solo reggae-soul EP was made in cooperation with Marlon B, Jah Meek, Ward 21 and the House Of Riddim titled Runaway and released in 2005 by the Velocity Records.
Riddim Colony
Riddim Colony is one of the freshest actors on the Hungarian dancehall-reggae scene formed last year. The ten-member band with three ragga-singers has a growing fan club and recognition. They play mainly own songs in a modern roots reggae and dancehall style.
Love Alliance
Members DJ Bosi: selector MC Kemon: rap, vocal, selector Dr. Dermot: selector
23.04. MONDAY. @ 9 PM. Mezzoforte (IS) A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Blue Music jazz
Hot jazz-funk from the land of geysers! Mezzoforte from Iceland gave the greatest hits of jaaz-rock to the world, and are by the way more active than ever. They strike in our Blue Music serie aboard!
Mezzoforte (IS)
Mezzoforte as a group, holds a very special place in their native Iceland. They were after all the the first Icelandic musicians to open the gates to the world market as well as opening the eyes of the world to the fact that in the high north, not unlike the deep south, there is some great music to be found, music that reflects the unique inventiveness, buzzing energy and general Fortissimos of its creators.
Mezzoforte have been at it since they were 15 . They´re still Playing for Time, still Rising, and seemingly with No limits. It now looks like they´re in it for a lifetime. Whether you belong to the formidable congregation of faithful followers or have just joined the club, you´re in for a treat. Mezzoforte are preparing for a 21st Century Garden Party and it´s about to start. I´m counting on being on the guest list....
Having worked with some of the world´s most renowned wind instrumentalists, Mezzoforte has now proudly added Icelandic reedman Oskar Gudjonsson to their stable of repectable side men. The latest version of the live band is completed by trumpetist/keyboardist Sebastian Studnitzky, percussionist Thomas Dyani and guitarist Bruno Mueller who takes the place of Fridrik Karlsson, whose busy schedule with musical projects of his own as well as session work for various artists has limited his flexibility to tour. Fridrik remains fully active in the writing and recording part of the bands activities.
Line up Eythor Gunnarson: keyboards Johann Asmundsson: bass guitar Guli Briem: drums +
Bruno Müller: guitar Sebastian Studnitzky: keyboards, trumpet Oskar Gudjonsson: saxophone
24.04. TUESDAY @ 7:30 PM A38 boat Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Jorn Lande (NO) Everwood (H) album promotion rock, heavy metal Jorn Lande started off in the company of one of the ex-Whitesnakes, The Snakes.On the A38 Ship we will hear songs from his solo album first of all, but also famous tunes by the ARK and the Masterplan, while also some rock evergreens from the seventies will be featured.
26.04.THURSDAY @ 9.PM A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Besh o Drom, Akkezdet Phiai
world music, folk, hip hop, funky, soul
A special mix of styles: fast tempo world music from the Balkans by the a Besh o droM will meet the masters of the loosy pulsating hiphop, the Akkezdet Phiai. Besh o droM The futuristic wedding band Besh o droM is a 10-piece electroacoustic collective, combining ethnic folk roots, driving beats and wild jazz improvisation to spectacular effect. Their sound exemplifies the vital creative energy that is flourishing throughout the region and fusing east and west in myriad new ways.
Band members Gergő Barcza: sax Ádám Pettik: percussions László Békési: sax, clarinet József Csurkulya: cimbalom Attila Sidoo: guitar Péter Tóth: trumpet Tamás Zsoldos: bass Dr. Csaba Talabos: tapan
Ujonc (Rookie) and Saiid started writin beats and lyrics in 1996 as HTA (Higher Tone Alliance. First lyrics were in english, then after about a year, they chose to use their mother tounge for rappin, thus the name had to be changed to HUngarian too, so the group's name was finally changed to Akkezdet Phiai (Son's of Outset) in 1999. These were the times when the first tracks were put out on demo cds, tracks like Phasskivan, Tartsdmegatavot, Ujtanek that are now on the debut album, and some of them like Spangli Rabja and Ittvakeringy didn't make it, so they're only available in demo versions. These demos spread through the country quickly. Sometimes during this period, Streetnoyz Entertainment was founded by Fari Saiid, which will bring a new line of hiphop into Hungary in the year 2005. The demos aired a lot on the famous Rocksteady Beat Show on EstFM Radio thanx to DJ Gyoremix!, then it quickly spread out in all different versions within the underground scene. As the music spread more performances followed, and next to small hiphop clubs in the country the group also performed on big events in front of huge crowds, they opened for Rza, Masta Killa, and Tekitha on the Rza SHow in Budapest 2001, had gigs on the famous Pepsi Sziget in 2003 and 20004, opened for De La Soul on the 2003 DMC World Championships in Budapest, and shared stage with Planet Asia, Declaime and several US artists. As the group became known, they were requested to make the soundtrack for dm Csaszi's "1 Het" (1 Week), which is a movie about one week of a gypsy struggling in the streets of BUdapest, and which won the jury's award on the Amateur Movie Awards of Hungary in 2004, and the main track took the award for Best Soundtrack in 2004. The demo was so successful, that it was time to make a studio album, which includes most of the tracks appearing on the demos. This is how Akkezdet got into a connection with WacuumAirs label and CEO Bobakrome. After about 6 months in the studio perfecting the music, the debut album entitled Akkezdet was released on 10 April 2004. The album contains almost 80 minutes of music and was released under the first independent hiphop label in Hungary, WacuumAirs. This album was the first Hungarian album with a booklet containing all the lyrics on the cd. Tracks on Akkezdet were all produced by Saiid except for "Van Gond" (We have a problem) produced by Fari for Streetnoyz Ent., which has the imfamous hook with Hungarian comedist Geza Hofi's (RIP) words about politics, and poverty. The album was mastered by Bobakrome, the cover design with the robots was made by Digital Reality. Akkezdet LP was reviewed in several magazines and webpages, and most of the time it received 9 stars out of 10, was called and "instant classic", "a milestone in the Hungarian music scene", and "the first real Hungarian hiphop".
Featuring: Pest County Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Tibor Noseda
J. S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 Schumann: Etudes in Canon Form No. 4 J. Reubke: Sonata in C minor (94th psalm) Daquin: XI Noël en Recit en Traille Guilmant: Sonata in D minor for Organ and Orchestra
A new phase in the extensive professional cooperation between the Palace of Arts and the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music comes in the form of offering the opportunity to certain graduating students to give their diploma concerts in various halls of the Palace. The first two graduates from the 2006/2007 year to perform will be Dániel Sárosi and Petra Soltész (May 2) who will sit at the monumental concert organ at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall which will be a lifetime's experience for both of them, and their audiences of course.
After Music Academy students have “invaded” the first floor foyer and “played in” its superb Steinway piano at their afternoon concerts, final year students now stake a claim on the Glass Hall with its superb panorama of the Danube. The series of pianists’ diploma concerts will be started by Sebestyén Nyírő on June 26th but many more are sure to succeed him, making full use of the excellent possibilities of the Palace of Arts.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3300, 555-3301, 555-3303
The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 and is one of the oldest symphonic orchestras in the world. Every year they give around one hundred and eighty concerts and in December 2004 gave their fourteen thousandth ever recital – no orchestra anywhere can match that statistic. Since 1917, they have made close on two thousand recordings, of which five hundred are still obtainable today.
Lorin Maazel first conducted the orchestra at the age of 12 (yes, twelve!) and has worked as a guest conductor over a hundred times. In 2002, he accepted the post of music director, following the footsteps of such illustrious predecessors as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta and Kurt Masur. He is one of the great living conductors and in his seventy seven years, he has conducted some hundred and fifty orchestras in some five thousand concerts and opera performances.
Glenn Dicterow has been concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic since 1980 and is also a professor at the Juilliard School. He is also a busy soloist. He performed the Tchaikovsky concerto at the age of eleven with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his father was a member for close on fifty years. Carter Brey has been principal cellist of the orchestra for the last ten years and in 1997 performed the Tchaikovsky Rococo variations as soloist with conductor Kurt Masur. When Masur retired as music director in 2002, Brey and Dicterow also performed the Brahms Double concerto in A minor (the composer’s last orchestral work, written in 1887) at Masur’s farewell concert series. Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Concerts with students of the Academy of Music Budapest Bartók Choir
Glass Hall
Lajos Bárdos: Cantemus Palestrina: Exultate Deo Melchior Frank: Gehet hin Liszt: Salve Regina Tamás Daróci Bárdos: Praise the Lord Lightfoot: Jubilant Gloria György Orbán: Missa secunda Gloria / Credo Lajos Bárdos: Starflower Lajos Bárdos: At the Patkó Family Kodály: Evening Song Kodály: Pictures from the Mátra
With: Eszter Dóri - piano Conducted by: Tamás Hornyák and Árpád Zólyomi
One of the most important aims of the Palace of Arts is to bring the genre of classical music closer to the audience. With the Atmosphere Concerts we manage to fulfil this aim a physical sense, too: the concerts take place in the Vestibule or in the Glass Hall on Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons. What is even more important is that these concerts provide admission free, informal occasions of special atmosphere for meeting the genre and its young artists.
Our initiative met the intention of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, this school of great traditions, to provide its students with the largest number of performance possibilities. Performers of these concerts are talented young artists appearing in front of the audience with productions mature enough for the stage.
We heartily recommend them to your attention.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
05.05. Saturday 8:00PM Amorphis (FIN) A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
heavy metal
Founded in 1990 in Helsinki, Amorhis have worked their way to the apex of the European metal scene. The big break-through came in 1994 with their album Tales From The Thousand Lakes, that won the band a massive fan base around the world.
The show of the soloists of the Hungarian National Ballet
This two-part production comprises foreign and Hungarian, modern and classical concert pieces performed by stars of the Hungarian National Ballet, as well as work by young Hungarian choreographers Miklós Dávid Kerényi, András Lukács, Andrea Merlo and Mariann Venekei. Audiences have welcomed all the Palace of Arts ballet events with great interest so far. We hope that this gala-style production will be first of a long tradition and that the number one Hungarian ballet troupe will find new devotees to extend its existing base of supporters.
Further performances: Festival Theatre, 19.00 May 7; June 22
A production by the Hungarian National Ballet Foundation
First Act:
Duet Music: R. Wagner Choreography: Wayne Eagling Dancers: Anna Tsygankova, Bence Apáti
Whirling Music: Philip Glass Choreography: András Lukács (Harangozó Prize) Dancers: Ildikó Bacskai, Levente Bajári (Harangozó Prize)
’Gopak’ from the ballet ’Taras Bulba’ Music: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy Choreography: Fjodor Lopuhov Dancers: Miklós Dávid Kerényi, András Szegő
About the Hungarian Dance Academy: We aim at giving young artist students an opportunity to gain as much practice and stage routine as possible. Promising students of the Hungarian Dance Academy are coming up next, who have achieved significant results at noted international ballet competitions.
Sleeping Beauty – Act 3., female version Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky Choreography: M. Petipa Dancer: Eszter Ledán - HDA, 8th year, 2005 Helsinki International Ballet Competition – 2nd Prize
Swan Lake – Act 3., female version Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky Choreography: M. Petipa, L. Ivanov Dancer: Laura Nistor - HDA, 8th year
Don Quijote – male version Music: L. Minkus Choreography: M. Petipa Dancer: Richárd Szabó - HDA, 8th year, 2004 Berlin Dance Olypmics – 2nd Prize, 2005 Helsinki International Ballet Competition – Special Recognition 2006 St Petersburg Vaganova Competition – 2nd Prize, 2006 Pekingi International Ballet Competition – 3rd Prize
Me, Myself and I Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky Choreography: Marianna Venekei (Harangozó Prize) Dancers: Miklós Dávid Kerényi, István Koháry, Levente Bajári (Harangozó Prize), Roland Liebich, András Szegő
Le Corsaire - Pas de Deux Music: R. Drigo Choreography: M. Petipa Dancers: Aleszja Popova (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Harangozó Prize), József Cserta (Harangozó Prize)
Second Act:
Sleeping Beauty - Pas de Deux – Act 3. Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky Choreography: M. Petipa Dancers: Radina Dace, Zoltán Oláh (Harangozó Prize)
Spartacus - Pas de Deux Music: A. Khachaturian Choreography: László Seregi (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Excellent Artist) Assistant: Ildikó Kaszás (Artist of Merit) Dancers: Katalin Volf (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit), Bence Apáti Photo: Vera Éder
Métamorphoses Nocturnes – Part One Music: György Ligeti (String Quartet No. 1, Movements No. 1-4.) Choreography: Andrea Paolini Merlo Lighting: Andrea Paolini Merlo Costumes: Mónika Herwerth Dancers: Zsófia Gyarmati, Ildikó Bacskai, Orsolya Gáspár, Adrienn Pap, Alexander Komarov, György Szirb, Dániel Fodor, Bálint Katona
The Cedar - Pas de Deux Music: Frigyes Hidas Choreography: László Seregi (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Excellent Artist) Dancers: Krisztina Keveházi, József Cserta (Harangozó Prize) Assistant: Ildikó Kaszás (Artist of Merit)
Esmeralda – female version Music: C. Pugni Choreography: M. Petipa Dancer: Ágota Ecseki - HDA, 6th year, 2004 Berlin Dance Olympics – 1st Prize
Grand Pas Classique – female version Music: D. F. Auber Choreography: V. Gsovsky Dancer: Lili Felméry - HDA, 6th year, 2004 Berlin Dance Olympics – 1st Prize, 2006 St Petersburg Vaganova Competition – Special Recognition for Best Partner
Swan Lake - Pas de Deux and Coda – Act 3. Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky Choreography: M. Petipa, L. Ivanov Dancers: Anna Tsygankova, Zoltán Oláh (Harangozó Prize)
This is our heArt Music: Moloko, Zagar Choreography: Kerényi Miklós Dávid With: Alexandra Kozmér, Tünde Sára Kerényi, Marcsi Bánovics, Csaba Solti, István Koháry, Mátyás Sarvady, Miklós Dávid Kerényi Assistant: Alexandra Kozmér Costumes: Vidra Film: Márton Karczag Photos: Mátyás Sarvady Standard breaker: Lumpi
Gil Shohat: Jewish Festive Overture Saint-Saëns: Piano concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22 Verdi: The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera entitled Nabucco Bernstein: West Side Story Highlights
With: Keren Hanan (ISRAEL) - piano, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (ISRAEL), Noa Tishby (IZRAEL), Mariann Falusi, Boldizsár László - vocals, Honvéd Men’s Choir (choir master: Péter Drucker), and the Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra Budafok
Conducted by: Gábor Hollerung
The concert will take place in the frame of the event series Israeli Cultural Spring, which aims at presenting the colourful beauties of the numerous faces of Israel on occasion of the anniversary of the independence of the state of Israel, with the help of noted Israeli and Hungarian artists.
Organised by: Interkultur Hungaria Kht. Supported by: Foundation for the Understanding Between Peoples Chief patron: David Admon, Ambassador of Israel
Music: Nikola Parov Costumes: Zsuzsa Imrik Sets, paintings: Géza Barcsik Choreography: Ildikó Németh, Gábor Mihályi, Béla Ónodi, Tamás Szappanos, Miklós Végső Musicians: Mihály Borbély, Ferenc Kovács, Beáta Salamon, Zsigmond Lázár, László Major, Mihály György, Kálmán Balogh, Ferenc Kovács, Zoltán Orosz Solos sung by: Ágnes Herczku, Ferenc Németh Dance company leader: Richárd Kökény Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga Director-choreographer: Gábor Mihályi, artistic director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
The creators of the Sun legend have added an original, unprecedented world of spectacle and sound to the existing range of Hungarian and international dance productions. The Sun legend is fresh, creative, a thoroughly 21st-century dance theatre performance, which uses the special means of this art form to represent the cult of the Sun, its role in our life, the connection between its course across the firmament and the path and turning points of a human life. The choreographer Gábor Mihályi has amalgamated the most dynamic and sweeping motifs of Hungarian and Central East European folk dance in a performance by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. In acknowledgement of this achievement, he was awarded the prize “Creator of the Year” in 2000 by the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists. The composer for the production is Nikola Parov, who has travelled the world as a soloist for Riverdance. Parov worked from East European folk music tradition to create a new, original musical world, in which the saxophone, drums, brass instruments and the violin fuse in perfect harmony. This piece, created in the style of folk and world music, is an enchanting combination of tradition and the mystical.
Further performance: Festival Theatre May 23, June 30, 19.00
Ignite (USA), Death by Stereo (USA), Burn the 8 Track (CDN)
May 08. 2007 Tuesday @ 8:00 PM
A38 boat Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
heavy metal, rock
Tough rock and metal that connects the USA with Hungary, Hungary with Canada, and Canada with the USA. Rock above all!
Ignite (USA)
Orange County's Ignite aren't another punk rock/hardcore band. They don't wear make up. They don't care about image. They aren't a here today, gone tomorrow flash in the pan. They aren't tired scenesters, clinging desperately to the past. So what, you ask, are Ignite? That's easy.
Ignite, who've been making music together for over 10 years, are a successful, international act with a diehard global following. They've got a proven, rabid fanbase that populates over 30 countries, thanks to their Iron Man tour scheduling. People go crazy for Ignite all over Europe, Australia, South America, and in their native US, and that's why the band lives on the road, bringing the fans what they want and what they need.
Ignite are rock band with hardcore roots, a rock band that supports a series of environmentally and socially conscious groups like Doctors Without Borders, Habitat For Humanity, Sea Shepherds, Project Blue Sea, and Earth First. Ignite have donated the proceeds from a series of seven inches, ten inches, and splits to these causes. They've released three albums, A Place Called Home (2000), Past Our Means (1996) and Call On My Brothers (1995), all of which enjoy a place in the hardcore canon. Our Darkest Days is their latest full-length, and first for Abacus Recordings.
Ya Basta! Sound System Live - DJ Solal vs. Bucky Baxter (F/USA) introduction to the Moonshine Sessions, DJ Philippe Solal (F, Gotan Project), Daniel Haaksman (D)
electronica
One of the most influential on the downtempo electronic scene of this decade was the Gotan Project-album titled Revancha del tango released in 2001. The trio defined a new direction for the electronic world music based on the fantastic tradition of Astor Piazzolla. The founder of the Gotan Project Philippe Cohen Solal released Moonshine Sessions, a fantastic. loosy electro-country-pop album with Bob Dyílans frequent partner, the steel-guitarist Bucky Baxter. After their live act of Moonshine Sessions Solal will do a marathon dj-ing of four hours to incraze all.
10.May, Thursday 7:00 PM Győr Ballet Phantom of the Opera
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3300, 555-3301, 555-3303
Festival Theatre
Music: Franz Liszt, Carl Maria von Weber, Pablo de Sarasate, Jules Massenet, Adolphe Adam, Henryk Wieniawski, Franz Schubert, Max Bruch, Attila Reményi Libretto based on novel by Gaston Leroux: Libor Vaculik Sets, costumes: Judit Gombár Voice of the Phantom: Géza Tordy Assistants: Gizella Horváth, László G. Szabó Director-choreographer: Libor Vaculik Artistic director, manager: János Kiss
Christine Daaé sees an apparition of her dead father, who promises the little girl to send to her the angel of dance. The Paris opera ballet is preparing for a new premiere. The title role is to be danced by Charlotte, the aging prima ballerina, but she suffers an accident. Only Christine, the new member of the troupe could salvage the production, as the Phantom has sought her out and taught her all the most delicate movements. In the end, the performance and Christine meet with huge success. Years later, she meets Raoul, who feels more for her than for an idol. Charlotte finds it hard to tolerate her younger colleague’s success on the stage and in private life. The Phantom takes Christine to his realm and organises her a splendid angelic concert. But when she removes his mask, he rages and leads her out of his realm. At the masked ball the Phantom hands his libretto to the two directors of the opera. He had written a role for his beloved, Christine. Charlotte is unable to conceal her jealousy and tears the libretto to pieces, which so enrages the Phantom, that he tears down the chandelier, which squashes Charlotte. Christine realises that she had been the cause for all the mishap and flees to her father’s grave to find solace. The Phantom reveals all his secrets to Christine and confesses his love. He says that he would do anything for her and would even kill Raoul, who stands in his way. He would leave him alive only if Christine were to marry him. She accepts, for Raoul is more important to her than anything. The Phantom later understands the folly of his demand and disappears from the life of the young lovers. Perhaps he has moved to another theatre, for every theatre has its own phantom…
13. Sunday, May 2007 @ 7:30 PM Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Bea Palya – vocals, Miklós Lukács – cimbalom, Balázs Dongó Szokolay – saxophone, bagpipes, recorder, Csaba Novák – double bass, András Dés – percussion Guests: Zoltán Lantos – violin, Vincent Le Quang – soprano saxophone, Theodossii Spassov – kaval
Bea Palya, with her gorgeous voice, is the leading light of the younger generation of Hungarian folk singers. She is known for her work with Folkestra, Kárpátia and the Etnofon Music Society. She now presents a new French published album with her quintet. Much of the rich material, which is influenced by both Carpathian Basin and Western music, is constructed on Bea’s own texts, penetrating the folk music and modern song writing traditions with her highly personal voice. A Bulgarian melody, a French chanson or an arrangement of a Sarah Vaughan song are all heard sung with equal character, and Bea Palya is helped by such superb guest musicians as Theodossii Spassov or violinist Zoltán Lantos.
VI. International Acoustic Guitar Festival - Dylan Fowler, Peter Finger, Dean Magraw, Szabó Sándor Entry: 2000 HUF jazz, blues, rock Innovative, classical, improvising, virtuoso, folk and jazzy tunes from the masters of the acoustic guitar this time accompanied by am outstanding percussionist. Szabó Sándor In his music he blends the classical forms with meditative mood of the Eastern music, Hungarian folk musical elements and improvisation that he inherited from jazz. The athmosphere of his concerts is intimate and personal. Up to now, Szabó is repeatedly toured throughout Europe and also performed several times in the USA and Japan, Korea as a fingerstyle guitar player. He also did some master classes in the US and France of his special harmony concept. Sandor Szabo is continously working in his homeland to educate the audience for the acoustic guitar music. He is one of the organizers of the annual International Acousticguitar Festival in Hungary.
Albums Ritual of a Spiritual Communion (Major Balázzsal), 1986 The Clear Perception of Provenance within (Major Balázzsal és Gilbert Isbinnel), 1987 Sanctified Land, 1991 Hypnos (SzaMaBa Trió), 1993 Anima (SzaMaBa Trió), 1995 Opus Magnum (SzaMaBa Trió), 1996 Alexandria, 1997 Gaia & Aries, 1998 Echolocation I., 1999 Dreams within Dreams, 2000 Nearness of Earth, 2001 Hungarian Jazz Rhapsodie, 2003 The Art of the 16 String Guitar I., 2004 Acoustic Poetry, 2005
Concerts with students of the Academy of Music Mirjam Brezovácz - piano
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Elõcsarnok angol
Chopin: Ballad in F minor Rahmaninov: Etude in D minor, op. 39 Prokofiev: Sonata in G minor, op. 1 nr. 1 Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess One of the most important aims of the Palace of Arts is to bring the genre of classical music closer to the audience. With the Atmosphere Concerts we manage to fulfil this aim a physical sense, too: the concerts take place in the Vestibule or in the Glass Hall on Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons. What is even more important is that these concerts provide admission free, informal occasions of special atmosphere for meeting the genre and its young artists.
Our initiative met the intention of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, this school of great traditions, to provide its students with the largest number of performance possibilities. Performers of these concerts are talented young artists appearing in front of the audience with productions mature enough for the stage.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall Featuring: Judit Németh, Tamás Kóbor, István Kovács – singers, National Choir (choirmaster: Mátyás Antal) Conductor: Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, op. 17 – dramatic symphony
The Romeo and Juliet symphony of Hector Berlioz is one of the great emblematic creations of French romantic music. Berlioz himself conducted the work in 1839 at its Paris premiere. Berlioz uses a text by Emile Deschamps, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name, and fuses the devices of opera, oratorio and symphony to create a remarkable four movement work with an orchestral introduction and choral prologue. In the preface to the score, Berlioz makes it clear that this is not a concert opera nor a cantata. Berlioz entrusts the most important message, the drama and the interpretation of feelings to the orchestra.
jazz Latin madness with Samuel Torres, alias Pepito with his shaker-solo. Has already performed with Richard Bona on the A38 but now its time to hear crazy percussion from Columbia with their funky salsa, afro and carribbean folk.
Samuel Torres Group (COL) Born in Bogota, Colombia, Samuel graduated in Music Composition from Universidad Javeriana of Bogota. He started playing at age twelve and recalls learning a great deal from in-home jam sessions with friends of his musically inclined grand parents and relatives and began playing around with different bands in his hometown.
Although a classically trained percussionist, Samuel was drawn by the sound and rhythms of different styles, especially Latinamerican and Jazz. In 1998 he traveled to the United States, where he was contracted with Grammy Award Winner Arturo Sandoval with whom he toured throughout the world for four years.
Upon his arrival to the US Samuel has played with renowned jazz artists such as the late Tito Puente, Chick Corea, Poncho Sanchez, Caribbean Jazz Project, Pete Escovedo, Dave Valentin, Michael Brecker, Don Byron and Claudio Roditi amongst other.
He has also performed as a guest of the Florida International University’s big band, the 4th of July Esplanade 2000 with the Boston Pops, 2000, Singapore Arts Festival, the "5 de Mayo" Celebration 2001 with the Nashville Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Latin Festival 2001 with the L.A. Philharmonic, 2001 Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan and many more.
Samuel’s stellar playing landed him the Second Place at the 2000 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for Hand Percussion.
He creates beautiful, yet challenging music designed to appeal to the discriminating listener. With artfully, dynamic and relaxed chops that match speed with precision, The Boston Globe describes his playing: "a ferocious conga solo by Samuel Torres that seemed not humanly possible".
Samuel moved to New York in late 2002, where he is gaining recognition and respect in the most competitive of musical settings while continues performing in leading venues and festivals throughout the world.
Latin Percussion, Inc., the renowned percussion builder appointed him as the leader, producer, composer of "Drum Solos Revisited" a DVD targeted to those interested in learning and/or improving their technique and soloist improvisational skills. Founder of LP, Martin Cohen claims that "he had not met an arranger/producer so talented in over 25 year" .
In 2004 Samuel Torres began working with the exceptionally gifted bassist, Richard Bona, again demonstrating his commitment to taking his talent to all areas of music.
Bolero / Message of Angels / Bolero – a performance by the Hungarian Festival Ballet
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002 Festival Theatre
I. Bolero
Music: Maurice Ravel Desire: Mónika Misáczi / Gábor Nyári
II. Message of Angels
Music: J. S. Bach Costumes: Márta Pilinyi Soloists: Krisztina Loósz, Gábor Nyári, Mónika Misáczi, István Issovits, Márton Csöppüs Ballet: Éva Krenyác, Mariann Csernyi, Katalin Csizmadia, Szonja Stetina, Tamara Szlizs, Petra Goszton, Tamás Házi, Krisztián Kiss Choreographer-director, art director: Iván Markó On 17 and 18 May in the Festival Theatre, the Hungarian Festival Ballet, which was founded in 1996 by Iván Markó (the Kossuth Prize-winner Artist of Merit who turns 60 this year), will present two choreographies of Markó. The Message of Angels will be performed between the male and female versions of Bolero.
In the Markó-choreography created to the most erotic piece of music history, Ravel’s Bolero, Desire assumes a form, and chases men and women towards ecstasy and each other. Desire resurrects repeatedly to annihilate itself in the fulfilled loving embrace and revive itself afterwards. The choreographies of the male and female versions are almost completely the same, still the difference is immense: in Markó’s words ’as much difference as there is between the woman and the man.’
At the beginning of the third millennium, we have encountered a yet unparalleled need to protect our Earth and to revive the love and responsibility of people towards each other. The Message of Angels tries to interpret this feeling with the help of Bach’s wonderful music, and the through the means of movements and spectacle. The joy of music and dance, the eternal desire of man to overcome the force of gravity (that is to experience the feeling of flight) inspired the choreographer, Iván Markó. The emotional, spiritual and dynamic depth, soar and intensity of Bach’s music face the ensemble with an extremely difficult task. In our distressed and tense situation, the Message of Angels gives light and faith, which shows us the way to each other and helps us recognise our interdependence.
According to reliable sources, there are two hundred and forty different types of cheese in France and roughly the same number of musical trends. If we add to this the French speaking territory beyond France, then an entire universe of music opens up which would require months of exploration. We can’t undertake such a project now of course, but the performers of our “francophone” taster come from a truly broad geographic and stylistic spectrum. The Francophone Festival was made possible by support from the Bureau Export de la Musique Française Berlin and the Budapest French Institute.
Sixty eight year old Maurice El Médioni is one of the “pianorientalist” legends of our era. He was born in Oran and as a self taught pianist created his own unmistakable coffee house style from boogie-woogie, rumba and rai. In the fifties he moved to France where he played with legendary names but then fell into obscurity, only to re-emerge two decades ago with one of the most sensational comebacks of the nineties. His album Café Oran was made with Frank London, David Krakauer, Mahmoud Fadl and Sabah Habas Mustapha and recently he has also recorded a sensational album with Cuban Robert Rodriguez. The Bordeaux based Les Hurlements D’Léo have established themselves over their eleven years career as the most superb “students” of the “Les Negresses Vertes – Mano Negra school”. And yet they have a style of their own: the band overwhelm their audiences with the bohemian mood and poetry of French chansons in both concerts and recorded albums.
A night dedicated to the immense music and personality of Capleton. Admission free for those wearing the wrstband of the Capleton-gig.
Irie Maffia Soundsystem Its one of the leading troop of the Hungarian dancehall scene much connected with the Love Alliance crew. Classical, roaring dancehall/reggae along with a machine-gun tongued MC from Granada, fast-as-lighning Hungarian selectors and crazy riddimers. Irie Maffia is celebrating its first anniversary with this gig, and also celebrating its nice success so far on the international scene.
Members Dr Dermot MC Kemon Jumurdzsak Busa
Suhaid Suhaid is one of Hungary’s most all-round djs, who consequently refuses style-fetishism. His favourites include though nu jazz and soul-funk of the seventies, contemporary underground hiphop, Hungarian evergreens, beat and bigbeat, and whatever else.
He likes performing with live acts, especially with those open-minded jazz sax-players who can easily make excursions into the spheres of dance music like János Vázsonyi or Béla. Ágoston. He is also a restless organizer of the Jazz Turbulence nights too.
DJ Bosi Bosi, it is Gábor Boskovits has been a well-known actor of the Hungarian reggae and dancehall scene for long. He got used to the Jamaican riddims in German clubs and continued playing them from the late 90-ies in Budapest. Along with Caspar, Mango and mates he formed the Love Alliance, probably the most important collective of the local dancehall-culture. Bosi besides being an excellent selector is a dedicated party-organizer as well, many well-known names from the international scene were brought to Hungary by him.
Bolero / Message of Angels / Bolero – a performance by the Hungarian Festival Ballet
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
I. Bolero
Music: Maurice Ravel Desire: Mónika Misáczi / Gábor Nyári
II. Message of Angels
Music: J. S. Bach Costumes: Márta Pilinyi Soloists: Krisztina Loósz, Gábor Nyári, Mónika Misáczi, István Issovits, Márton Csöppüs Ballet: Éva Krenyác, Mariann Csernyi, Katalin Csizmadia, Szonja Stetina, Tamara Szlizs, Petra Goszton, Tamás Házi, Krisztián Kiss Choreographer-director, art director: Iván Markó On 17 and 18 May in the Festival Theatre, the Hungarian Festival Ballet, which was founded in 1996 by Iván Markó (the Kossuth Prize-winner Artist of Merit who turns 60 this year), will present two choreographies of Markó. The Message of Angels will be performed between the male and female versions of Bolero.
In the Markó-choreography created to the most erotic piece of music history, Ravel’s Bolero, Desire assumes a form, and chases men and women towards ecstasy and each other. Desire resurrects repeatedly to annihilate itself in the fulfilled loving embrace and revive itself afterwards. The choreographies of the male and female versions are almost completely the same, still the difference is immense: in Markó’s words ’as much difference as there is between the woman and the man.’
At the beginning of the third millennium, we have encountered a yet unparalleled need to protect our Earth and to revive the love and responsibility of people towards each other. The Message of Angels tries to interpret this feeling with the help of Bach’s wonderful music, and the through the means of movements and spectacle. The joy of music and dance, the eternal desire of man to overcome the force of gravity (that is to experience the feeling of flight) inspired the choreographer, Iván Markó. The emotional, spiritual and dynamic depth, soar and intensity of Bach’s music face the ensemble with an extremely difficult task. In our distressed and tense situation, the Message of Angels gives light and faith, which shows us the way to each other and helps us recognise our interdependence.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Concertmaster: János Rolla Featuring: Markus Stockhausen – trumpet, Tara Bouman – bass clarinet
Britten: Simple Symphony Markus Stockhausen: Ascent and Pause for Trumpet and Orchestra – world premiere Markus Stockhausen: Symbiosis for Trumpet and Basset Horn – world premiere Britten: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge
The final subscription series concert by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra features the German married couple Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman who have appeared together regularly since 2002 in their duo Moving Sounds and with orchestras. Besides improvisations, their repertoire consists of many works by Markus Stockhausen who is an esteemed composer. Today, two of his works will receive their world premieres.
Stockhausen is also acknowledged as a jazz musician and been a member of the Key Quintet, the Rainer Brüninghaus Group and Kairos, and played with musicians such as Enrique Diaz, Arild Andersen, Fabrizio Ottaviucci and Hungarian guitar virtuoso Ferenc Snétberger. Péter Eötvös has also written a work for him, Jetstream, which he premiered in London in 2003. He also works with his brother Simon and they have collaborated on numerous film and theatre piece scores.
BMC Music Flash – A Night of Contemporary and Classical Music
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Glass Hall
László Melis: Black and White – excerpts Zoltán Lengyel - piano
Purcell: Suite in A minor
Zoltán Jeney: Farewell to György Ligeti
J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Adagio, Fugue - Allegro
Ádám Kondor: Hand ball paper
J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Siciliano, Presto
Liszt: Berceuse (Erste Fassung, 1854) Ildikó Vékony - cimbalom
Bartók: Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and piano, BB96 András Keller - violin, Dénes Várjon - piano László Melis’s work ’Black and White’ consists of pieces dance music, as its basis is a Baroque partita. Dances of later eras, like today’s trendy dance music, also appear in the work beside the usual movements. Each movement has a different set of tones, which are usually not „natural” scales. Musical humour is not missing either, putting the performer to a serious technical test in some instances. (László Melis)
’Why these kinds of music?’ – this is the question. There are some that I have been playing for a long time, and some that I have always wanted to play. There are some that are not my cup of tea, however sometimes we appreciate a bit of a change. There are some that I have always expected and still necessitate further years from me to get to the depths. And there are some that shakes me out of my routine to notice the moment when a sound is born.’ (Ildikó Vékony)
The violin rhapsody is a quite peculiar case of the folk music inspiration of Bartók: all themes of the piece originate from existing folk songs, mostly form Romanian material, with some Hungarian and Ruthenian melodies. Bartók divided these into Slow and Fresh movements according to the verbunk tradition, and created a higher artistic form, which lays half way between folk song adaptations and sovereign pieces of composed music. In a 1944 transcript, Bartók shortened the Fresh movement in several instances and wrote a new ending to it.
reggae, dancehall, dub, ska The leading protagonists of Hungarian ska celebrate their birthday in the form of - what else? - but a huge ska-, reggae, dub and wjatever more festivity.
Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra From Eastern Europe with a natural sound, the Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra a.k.a. PASO set off in 2003 to introduce Jamaican-style ska to Hungarian audiences. The folks liked the style, and as the band focused on live performances for about a year, emotions rapidly soared. Being one with the audience has never been a problem for the group. In the early days it was even hard to distinguish where the band started and the audience ended, this group of ten was everywhere. It was this heavy interaction with fans that helped them to fullfill their deepest aspirations and lay down the foundations of their totally unique style.
Some say it's hard to distinguish PASO's music from the jamaican originals. But the ones, who give the tracks a more careful consideration will ulitmately realise that this music is an exquisite blend of uptempo skanks, bedrock Reggae riddims, 2Tone tunes and deep dub echos, all merged with jazzy grooves and touches of the joyfully, realistic Eastern European musical heritage. This variety comes from the musicians' diverse roots. While they all share a love for ska, they come from different scenes in the Hungarian Underground ranging from hard core to big bands. From the beginning, PASO pledged to retain the genuine consciousness of the ska and reggae movement. Leading vocalist KRSA's initial appeal is that as the Preacher he chants the tolerance messages to the public. Backed by Hungarian rude boy legend Janos, the guys never miss to have an impact. Their lyrics condemn discrimination of any sort based on gender, race, nationality and sexual preference. While taking stands on social issues, the band retains its jolly, fun-loving attitude, which makes the audience run wild with broad grins on their faces.
As the group gained a substantial following at home, they started touring steadily in the central-Eastern European region showing their style to their brothers with performances on Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian stages. Being a pioneer in the area, their efforts earned them ferocious success wherever they went and encouraged them to dive further into the scene. They started organizing parties, hosting a radio program, and having regular jam sessions with their sound system. Having their name already well established in the region, they set sail for the high seas! So far they have shared the stage with The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, the Toasters, the Slackers, Dr.Ring-Ding, the Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation and played on the same day at the same festival with the legendary Skatalites! No more comments on this are needed!
PASOund System The PASOund System is the soundsystem project of the Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra. It means that some Budapest-located members of the PASO (basicly: Lipi and KRSA, at other times Frédi, Jani, Dávid and eventually Zsolti too), along with PASO’s regular selector Áfonya spread the jamaican soundsystem culture through their vinyls, live instruments, rapping and singing.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
Music: Nikola Parov Costumes: Zsuzsa Imrik Sets, paintings: Géza Barcsik Choreography: Ildikó Németh, Gábor Mihályi, Béla Ónodi, Tamás Szappanos, Miklós Végső Musicians: Mihály Borbély, Ferenc Kovács, Beáta Salamon, Zsigmond Lázár, László Major, Mihály György, Kálmán Balogh, Ferenc Kovács, Zoltán Orosz Solos sung by: Ágnes Herczku, Ferenc Németh Dance company leader: Richárd Kökény Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga Director-choreographer: Gábor Mihályi, artistic director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble The creators of the Sun legend have added an original, unprecedented world of spectacle and sound to the existing range of Hungarian and international dance productions. The Sun legend is fresh, creative, a thoroughly 21st-century dance theatre performance, which uses the special means of this art form to represent the cult of the Sun, its role in our life, the connection between its course across the firmament and the path and turning points of a human life. The choreographer Gábor Mihályi has amalgamated the most dynamic and sweeping motifs of Hungarian and Central East European folk dance in a performance by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. In acknowledgement of this achievement, he was awarded the prize “Creator of the Year” in 2000 by the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists. The composer for the production is Nikola Parov, who has travelled the world as a soloist for Riverdance. Parov worked from East European folk music tradition to create a new, original musical world, in which the saxophone, drums, brass instruments and the violin fuse in perfect harmony. This piece, created in the style of folk and world music, is an enchanting combination of tradition and the mystical.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall Conductor: Vladimír Válek
Smetana: Moldau Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F major, op. 76 Janáček: Sinfonietta
The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra come to Budapest as part of “In the Heart of Europe” exchange programme, which also involves the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and ensembles from four other Central-European cities – Vienna, Ljubljana, Bratislava and Prague.
The orchestra will perform three works by emblematic figures of Czech music. Bedřich Smetana’s famous and popular Moldau is the second of the composer’s set of six symphonic poems, Ma Vlast. Antonín Dvořák composed his Fifth Symphony in 1875 but it is rarely heard in concert these days. Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta is uniquely scored, asking for instead of the usual two or three trumpets, no less than twelve.
Blue Music reggae, dancehall, dub, ska, world music, folk The music, in which the Mediterranean meets the Carribean in the form of a fantastic salsa-festivity by the initiator of the style. Another star in our Blue Music serie.
Sergent Garcia (F) The charming and completely mad Bruno Garcigo got his nickname Zorro back in his early childhood, which became his real trade mark since. Seargent Garcia started off with a new style named by him salsamuffin whose most popular author and oerforming artist has been noone else but him since: oustanding energy, wild latin rhythms, all this enriched with tasty Jamaican reggae and ragga by one of the most interesting and energetic musicians of the world music scene, that can only be compared with the incrazed Manu Chao project.
Albums Viva Il Sargento, 1998 Un Poquito Quema'O, 1999 Sin Fronteras, 2001 La Semilla Escondida, 2003 Mascaras, 2006
Yvette Bozsik Company Music: W. A. Mozart Sets: Zsolt Khell Costumes: Krisztina Berzsenyi Lighting: József Pető Dramaturgy: Tamara Török
Performed by members of the Yvette Bozsik Company and guest dancers Director-choreographer: Yvette Bozsik The production was inspired by Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and experience from the eponymous dance performance staged in the autumn of 2006 at the Palace of Arts. That adaptation of The Magic Flute may have been playful but was directed mostly to an adult audience, discussing life, death and love, the fight between the good and the bad. It follows Mozart’s story line but lays greater emphasis on expressing the atmosphere and the ideas of that opera using the language of dance. The Magic Circus is intended for children. The characters are members of a travelling circus (the Queen of the Night is an animal tamer, Tamino is an acrobat, Papageno a clown and Papagena a rope-dancer), putting on a show at Sarastro’s palace. This is a rare opportunity for a dance troupe, to re-think and re-formulate an existing production for a different audience segment, to translate the story and the “meaning” of Mozart’s opera into a language that children can understand.
Yvette Bozsik Company The Magic Flut Dance piece in two parts
Music: W. A. Mozart
Sets: Zsolt Khell Costumes: Krisztina Berzsenyi Lighting: József Pető Dramaturgy: Tamara Török Film: Erik Novák Mask: Janka Haraszti Hairdresser: Bódis Arts Choreographer’s assistant: Katalin Fodor Director-choreographer: Yvette Bozsik
Sarastro: József Hámor Tamino: Szabolcs Gombai Queen of the Night: Hajnalka Lisztóczki Pamina, her daughter: Kinga Szent-Ivány First lady: Samantha Kettle Second lady: Dóra Szelőczey Third lady: Aliz Krausz Papageno: Tamás Vati Papagena: Rita Góbi Monostatos: Attila Gergely First boy: Tímea Fülöp Second boy: Dóra Hasznos Third boy: Zsófia Nemes Slave girl: Emese Jantner Priests: Gábor Bora, Zoltán Csere, Zoltán Katonka, Gábor Vida, Szabolcs Vislóczky, Ádám Zambriczky A joint production by the National Dance Theatre and the Yvette Bozsik Company The German music played was published in 2006 by Vox Arts. We owe special thanks to György Győriványi Ráth, István Matók and Ádám Horváth. In the last year of his life, Mozart composed The Magic Flute, a magnificent fairy story set to music. With all the trappings of a fairytale, it is a story with a moral, and is both rustic and philosophically exalted at the same time. The libretto is the work of Mozart’s fellow freemason from the same lodge, Emanuel Schikaneder, who hoped to give a boost to his theatre in the suburbs with this fairy opera.
The Magic Flute tells of the fight of the forces of the deep, the dark and the wicked against the principle of beauty, goodness and wisdom. While the choreography follows the story of the opera, it translates its “language” to that of dance. The dance production is a modern version of the opera, combining expressionism and present-day dance styles to reveal the fairy and playful, deep and mystical nature of the opera.
late night drum'n'bass: Miloopa (PL) live on the roof terrace electronica In the music of the band from Wroclav drum'n'bass mixes with downtempo fresh jungle with broken beats, lots of electroinica and a marwellous female voice.
Miloopa (PL) The name of the band reminds in Poland the favorite baby food which kept the last generations healthy growing. Actually the bands idea is to feed too, but obviously serves it’s specialties on a quite different level. Miloopa was founded in 2001 in Wroclaw/Poland. From its very beginning, the band was into club-jazz music scene, mixing various genres. Influenced by electronic and synthetic textures of dj-cultrure, Miloopa kept the shape of a totally live band and developed it’s sound towards a unique live and electronic mix. Whether it’s a monster-subbass-enhanced d’n’b, jungle, or athmosperic, Natalie’s lines gives it always a soulful drive. Miloopa doesn’t put a limit on the creativity – what can be heard on the debut album Nutrition Facts (Gig Ant - www.gig-ant.pl). The CD includes track Cosmic Step with guest vocals by mc Blu Rum 13, known for his collaboration with Dj Vadim, Kid Koala, Luke Vibert and many others. Miloopa real force is live performance: it’s a highly energetic audio-visual show, accompanied by live-mixed visuals and real-time audio-mix. The band played many festivals (Creamfields, Heineken Open’er, Summer of Music, Szene Lustenau, Aspect of Valour…) performed in Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Czech R., toured with many great artists such as: JoJo Mayer & Nerve(USA) Micatone, Forss vs Borg (Sonar Kollektiv), Beanfield (Compost Records) Dj First Rate, Blu Rum 13, performed on one stage with icons like London Elektricity, Roni Size, US3, Dj Vadim, Bahamadia, Amp Fiddler…
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre FRANCOPHONE FESTIVAL
Denis Péan – vocals, keyboard instruments, Richard Bourreau – violin, kora, Nadia Nid El Mourid – vocals, Yamina Nid El Mourid – vocals, soprano saxophone, Kham Meslien – bass guitar, Franck Vaillant – drums In 1982, musicians, poets, circus artists and film makers organised themselves into a commune at Angers, alongside the Loire river. The Lo’Jo band, led by Denis Péan emerged as the “tribal” band which by the mid nineteen nineties has become a cult throughout Europe. Their music is equally close to French chansons, gypsy music, cabaret, dub and East and North African musical traditions. But it is not its myriad colours that make it exceptional but rather the unique blend and its charm and heart melting sensitivity.
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall Featuring: Gidon Kremer – violin Conductor: Iván Fischer
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – first sequence of waltzes Bartók: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Shortly after its world premiere in Dresden, the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss was staged in Budapest in May 1911, and received over a hundred performances at the Pest Opera House during the composer’s lifetime. The opera, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is set in the time of Maria Theresa, even though the waltz, which Strauss uses to evoke the nostalgia of the golden era of the Monarchy in music, didn’t exist before the 1820s. In 1944, Strauss gathered together the waltzes from the first two acts to make a concert piece.
“The score of the violin concerto was finished on February 5th. […] I have locked it into my draw, I do not know whether I will destroy it or just leave it locked away until it is discovered after my death”, wrote Bartók about his first violin concerto, which he wrote for Stefi Geyer who rejected his amorous advances. He preserved the manuscript until his death and it was finally performed in Basel in 1958 with conductor Paul Sacher, fifty years after it was completed. Today’s soloist is Gidon Kremer. Born in Riga, he is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of our time. He first exploded onto the international music scene over thirty years ago, and like many artists from the Soviet Union who later became world famous, he enjoyed one of his first foreign successes in Budapest.Smetana’s famous and popular Moldau is the second of the composer’s set of six symphonic poems, Ma Vlast. Antonín Dvořák composed his Fifth Symphony in 1875 but it is rarely heard in concert these days. Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta is uniquely scored, asking for instead of the usual two or three trumpets, no less than twelve.
E-Z Rollers live (UK), Brains, Longman & Bratwa (Tactile)
A38 boat Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Electronic Beats electronica, hip hop, funky, soul The duo that mixes jazz with drum 'n' bass in such a way that they have created a unique, easily floating and pulsating world of sound that was featured even in Guy Richie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Brains In the dynamic music of this band several styles can be found such as drum & bass, ragga, dancehall, dub, rock and ethno. During the past 11 years they gave more than 500 shows in clubs, college-parties and different festivals. This band proved on stage its dynamic power and impressive sound. The instrumental sound is the most dominant, but influences of the electronic beats, drum and bass and ragga are also significant when they perform live. Brains shared stage with several well-known bands from Asian Dub Foundation,through Zion Train, Roni Size to Dreadzone.
Line up Gergely Jeli: drums/sampler Norbert Vargat: solo guitar Dávid Endrei: bass guitar Ábel: Tőkés: guitar András Kéri: vocals, mc
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
In 2006, the UMZE Chamber Ensemble created a new tradition with their concert “Hommage a Ligeti” at the Palace of Arts. In 2007, this concert will be performed on György Ligeti’s birthday, but sadly, the composer, who was born in 1923, passed away on June 12th 2006.
Ligeti studied first at the Cluj Conservatoire and then at the Budapest Academy of Music. Not long afterwards, he created his micro-polyphony which became one of the most fundamental elements in his later music. In December 1956 he left Hungary. While working at the electronic music studios of West German Radio in Cologne, he was deeply influenced from his studies of the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel and Pierre Boulez.
He won many awards, medals and titles, which prove his excellence as an artist, teacher, and as an entire generation can testify, a mentor.
Charity concert by Zoltán Kocsis for the International Children’s Safety Service
Palace of Arts 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Kodály: Székely Lament, Op. 11 No. 2 Ravel-Kocsis: Pavane Bartók-Országh: Hungarian Folk-songs, BB 109 Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Flûte de Pan; La Chevelure; Le Tombeau des Naïades Debussy: Petite pièce, L. 120 Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965 Op. posth. 129 Debussy: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (Images,II.),L.111/2 Kodály: Hungarian Folk-music, Booklet No.3 - 'I shout out'; 'Carriage and cart'; 'I'm dying, I'm dying'; 'My blooming hemp'; 'The forest is beautiful, when...'; 'Woman, woman, out of the bed!' Bartók-Szigeti: Hungarian Folk-songs Kodály: Adagio Bartók: Eight Hungarian Folk-songs, BB 47 Bartók: Contrasts, BB 116
With: Mária Horváth – vocals, Barnabás Kelemen – violin, Zsolt Szatmári – clarinet, Zoltán Kocsis - piano In 1990, the world famous pianist Zoltán Kocsis offered to give a concert every year on his birthday, May 30th, to help the International Children’s Safety Service. He decided the best way to celebrate was by raising funds for poor and sick children. Zoltán Kocsis compiles the programme himself and asks friends to perform for free with him.
Revenues from the concert will go to help cover costs of examinations, treatment and operations for underprivileged children.
Horror Vacui
Horror Vacui – selection from the contemporary art collection of Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler.
Since 1992 Zsolt Somlói (38) who works in the media industry and Katalin Spengler (40), journalist and editor have been active in art collecting and the art trade in Hungary. They began their collection of around 300 pieces of contemporary art ten years ago, in 1996. It is now of international interest and they are still adding to it.
http://www.budapestitavaszifesztival.hu/btf2007/?t=h&id=1903&l=en
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April 3, 2007 9:00 AM
Budapest's 2nd wine festival
Budapest, April 7 (MTI) - Budapest's second annual Spring Wine Festival opened on Saturday at Budapest's City Hall park and will continue throughout the Easter weekend.
Budapest deputy mayor Miklos Hagyo, opening the 30-million-forint event supported by the city council, said, "viticulture is an inalienable part of Hungary's cultural treasure, and however many times it starts to decline, it does so in tandem with the weakening of Hungarian culture; but when it really takes off again, like today, it presages a new flowering of the nation." Thirty winemakers are represented at the festival, which also includes food and cultural events. Entrance to the festival grounds is free of charge. At the opening, winemakers were given awards in three categories, as well as a special Palinka prize. (Palinka is Hungary's eau-de-vie). In the red wine category, Meszaros Cellar's 2003 Bodzasi Kekfrankos (Blue Frank) won first prize. For white, Valejjo Haraszthy Cellar's 2006 Zenit Kiralyleanyka (a local grape) was considered the best while in the desert stable, Arvay and Partners' 2003 Sweet Life Cuvee was feted. Marton and Daughters' 2006 Irsai Oliver grape palinka got the top trophy. Last year 28,000 people visited the festival and this year the organisers expect 35,000-40,000 foreign and Hungarian visitors to turn up. Chairman of the Hungarian Wine Academy Jozsef Sumegi told MTI that annual wine consumption in Hungary is around 3 million hectolitres and exports total 500-600,000 hectolitres. The producer price of wine averages at 150-200 forints per bottle and the sector generates revenues of 70-80 billion forints per year, he added. Sumegi noted that Hungarian winemakers are facing increasing competition at home. Wine imports were estimated at 60,000 hectolitres last year, which is expected to double this year.
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April 8, 2007 1:38 PM
19.04.THURSDAY @ 21 PM.
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Incognito (UK) at Ship A38
The basic band of the acid jazz from the nineties renewed in all senses and strikes Hungary again! Old club-hits along with new soul-funk tunes for an incrazed dance-party in our Blue Music serie.
An acid jazz project with surprisingly deep roots in the 1970s jazz/funk/fusion world, Incognito was originally formed by Jean-Paul Maunick (aka Bluey) and Paul "Tubbs" Williams. Both were leaders of the late-'70s disco-funk group Light of the World, who scored several moderate British hits, including a cover of "I Shot the Sheriff." Just after the release of Light of the World's third LP (Check Us Out), Maunick and Williams shifted the lineup slightly and renamed the conglomeration Incognito.
Incognito debuted with the single "Parisienne Girl" and released the 1981 LP Jazz Funk, but was inactive during the rest of the 1980s. Maunick continued to write material for his group, even while working with Maxi Priest and others. (Williams later moved to Finland.) By the beginning of the 1990s, DJ legend and early Incognito fan Gilles Peterson had founded the Talkin' Loud label and he made Incognito one of his first signings. The 1991 single "Always There" (with vocals by Jocelyn Brown) became a Top Ten hit as part of Britain's booming acid jazz scene, prompting the release of Incognito's second album overall, Inside Life.
It was largely a studio affair, with Maunick and engineer Simon Cotsworth directing a large cast with many of the best musicians in Britain's fertile groove community.
With 1992's Tribes Vibes + Scribes, Maunick added a more established vocalist, the American Maysa Leak. A cover of Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" became another Incognito hit, and the album ascended Britain's pop charts even as it rose on America's contemporary jazz charts. The third album, Positivity, became the group's biggest album success, with much attention across Europe as well as Britain. Leak unsuccessfully attempted a solo career with Blue Note, leading to the temporary vocal replacement Pamela Anderson (not the Baywatch pinup) on 1995's 100° and Rising. Leak returned, though, appearing on the following year's Beneath the Surface.
Incognito later expanded its discography with 1996's Remixed, 1998's Tokyo Live, and 1999's No Time Like the Future. The group's next two albums were again made without Leak, 2001's Life Stranger Than Fiction and 2003's Who Needs Love, which featured Brazilian vocalist Ed Motta. Leak returned for 2004's Adventures in Black Sunshine. Bees + Flowers + Things appeared at the end of 2006. The album was a mix of cover versions along with re-recordings of four Incognito classics. (by: John Bush, All Music Guide)
Advance booking: 5000 HUF / At the door: 5000 HUF
tel.: (06 1) 464 39 40
www.a38.hu
www.incognito.org.uk
source: budapest.hu
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April 19, 2007 1:09 PM
20.04. FRIDAY @ 9 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
PUTUMAYO GIPSY GROOVE TOUR - !DELADAP (A) WITH ROMANO DROM (H), DJ STANI VANA (A), DJ INFRAGANDHI (H)
world music, folk, electronica
A night with real stunning roma music that meets electromic dance beats. !DelaDap comes with a new project, in which electronics will mix with Romano Drom’s authentic live roma folklore in an all-night long performance, also with the help of DJ Stani Vana and DJ Infragandhi.
!DELADAP (A/CZ/H)
For the last two years, Prague born producer Stani Vana developed his concept of cultural communication. He did not only cross borders but even centuries as he created his own facet of Jazz which you may call "Nu-Roma" or "Nu-Gipsy" or simply !DelaDap.
Culture - be it sculpture, writing, painting, speech or music - is all about migration. Meeting new people, learning, adopting new ideas, but keeping your roots. In ancient times, when ethnic groups consisted of not more than a few thousand people, they were all moving around - and thatís where our cultural diversity comes from. Later national borders were established and "keeping" for some reason became more important than "sharing".
But a minority kept moving and although they were always considered outsiders, over the centuries they were in fact "couriers" for cultural exchange. In the minority culture, and especially in their music, European cultural variety reflects as in a kaleidoscope.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Roma or "Gipsy" culture had a big influence on the development of Jazz. Think of three of Europeís most important Jazz musicians and chances are that at least two of them have some "Gipsy" roots. The ability to adapt, extract, and of course a deeply felt musicality are the real grounds for Jazz to grow.
Line up
Stani Vana: programming, gadgets
Eva Banyakova: vocals
Simona Senkiova: vocals
Stefan Banyak: violin
Dezider Rigo: double bass
Aleksander Stoic: guitar
Hoffmann Endre: percussion
Discography
Dela Paji, 2006
Cigani Ruzsa & Angelo, 2004
ROMANO DROM
Romano Drom group was formed around father and son. The two Kovács Antals - who left Andro Drom group, where they spent fifteen years - made an own formation which has been on its own way for seven years now promoting Valachian Romani music from Hungary.
Romano Drom means in Romani language "The Road of the Gypsies" and presents a special cuiltural trasposition from generation to generation. Their art based on oral tradition and songs sung inn mother tongue mingle with new music influemces, as the sound of the bucket and the spoon meets the sound of the guitar, accordeon. and double bass.
Passion, honesty and energy are typical for the music of the Romano Drom, which proudly brings ahead the ancient traditions, but is also open to the inféluences of other cultures at the same time.
Line up
Ifj. Kovács Antal: guitar, vocals, percussion
Balogh József: ének, guitar
Rafael Zsigmond: bucket, mouth bass
Farkas "Harcsa" Róbert: violin
Máté Kovács: derbuca, cahon
Albums
Ande Lindri, 2003
Romano Trip, 2003
Ando Foro, 2001
Déta Dévla, 1999
DJ STANI VANA (CZ)
The Prague-born Stani Vana has been living for more than a decade in Vienna, where he fouinded his !DelaDap titled project. The group melts together the authentic roma folklore with electronic dance music. Stani Vana as a DJ also works in the same style, making his nights flame with hot music from the Balkans.
DJ INFRAGANDHI
The all-eater and all-round DJ Infragandhi says a Prokofiev piece had such a shocking influence on him, that he started off with turning round the vinyls. His rocket-like carreer brought him to the Est FM radio, then Radio Café, where he is an editor now. He has been doing one of the most exciting programs of contemporary electronic music there since, the Deck Attack, and has been organising party-gigs under the same name too. He has been best known for his sets that include from jazz to world music, from funk to hiphop all desserts you can imagine.
tel.: (06 1) 464 39 40
www.a38.hu
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April 20, 2007 9:48 AM
21.04. STURDAY @ 9 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
House of Riddim (A) feat Jah Meek (D), Marlene Johnson (D), Jah Sesco (D), Riddim Colony (H), Love Alliance & MC Kemon (H)
reggae, dancehall, dub, ska
The Austrian roots-reggae band known all around Europe with selected frontmen. A total, all-night-long lasting reggae-madness on the A38 Ship.
House of Riddim (A)
The “House of Riddim” near St. Pölten, Austria, proves to be a first-class creation place of wonderful groovy Roots Riddims.
The crew already worked with Jah Mason, Gentleman, Dr.Ring Ding, Everton Blender, Joy White, Elijah Prophet, Turbulence, Perfect, Phenomden, Anthony-B, Million Stylez, Mykal Rose, Luthan Fyah, Spectacular, Ranking Joe, Luciano, Taffari, Ward 21, Marlene Johnson, Natheisha, Jahmali, Lukie D., Nosliw, D-Flame, Ziggi, Warrior King, Geoffrey Star, Cali P., Martin Jondo, Tolga, Heli Deinboek, Natty King, Mellow Mark, Pyro, Maxim, Sista Sonic, Rebellion the Recaller, Black Dillinger, Ras Charmer, Mono & Nikitaman, Ras Gonda, Natty Flo, Ganjaman, Jahcoustix, Al Pancho, Tom Lugo, Paco Mendoza aka Criminal, Dodo, Conscious Fiyah, Uwe Banton, Sun One, Junior Mango, Benjie, El Condorsito, Iriepathie, Thai Stylee, Jah Meek, Raggamaffia, Julian Levy, Cappuccino, Marlon B., Daddigon, Jahyute, Kimoe, Lyrics Factory, Brilliant, Bobby Buster, Ill Inspecta, Infinity, Shocking Murray, Anthony Locks, Victor Morgan, Likkle Lion, Jah Tiger, Fita Warri, Isha Blender, Jah Sesco, Riha, Edge Michael, 3gga, Sebastian Sturm, Ras Mac Bean, Wildlife, Utan Green, Mark Wonder, Tombo, Ronny Trettmann, Texta, Yalla Yalla Movement, Sister Progress, Rebel One, Junior Randy, Baron Black, I Trinity I, Dubiterian, ...
Paired with Austrian charm the House of Riddim offers a source of inspiration and creativity for the artists.
Line up
Parvez Syed: keyboards
Johannes Maria Knoll: guitar
Mafred Scheer: bass guitar
Sam Gilly: drums
Albums
House of Riddim, 2004
Chapter II, 2005
Jah Meek (JAM/D)
Jah Meek was born and grew up in Robin's Bay on Jamaica's northeast coast in 1971. He began singing whilst at school and entered his first talent competition at the end of the 80s and came first. However, despite singing on local sound systems, he did not want to part of the hustling culture around local dub cutting studios on the island, prefering more spiritual vibes.
In the early 90s, JAH MEEK worked closely with his friend Jahmali, now one of Jamaica's leading roots artists, and they wrote and sang many songs together. JAH MEEK visited Germany firstly in 1994 and began to work with artists around the Frankfurt dub and dancehall scene such as Tricky Cris and the Raggamuffin Sound System with whom he made his first single "The Riddim" - Global Youth feat. Jahmeek in 1997. This single was broadcasted on VIVA and MTV and was number 10 on the radio chart list. JAH MEEK recorded his first track "Look Before You Leap" (Logic Sound Studios), which remains unreleased. A second visit to Germany a couple of years later led him to sing the lead vocals on the track "Riddim" by Global Youth which was released by Sony Music and the resultant video being featured on satellite television. Other JAH MEEK releases include "Open Your Mind" and "Each One Teach One", both released on Elektrolux Records in Germany.
Jah Sesco (D)
Satarted off his career in the early nineties in his native homeland Trinidad & Tobago as a reggae soundsystem MC. He moved in 1994 to Germany and joined the Loop Town hiphop project, and from 1997 on has been publishing with his Dutch-German formation, the RoughCut his albums that brought in huge success for him.
In the new millenium he joined the Frankfurt-located Riddim Wize Crew as a singer and their first album titled Keepin It Real has been relesed lately.
Marlene Johnson (D)
The all-round singer and author of lyrics turned up on the reggae scene as a backing vocal of Jah Meek. Besides reggae she is engaged in other fields as well, among others g witin the frames of the Frankfurt-located Electro Club Hacienda (Ministry Of Sound) can be heard on Samy Deluxe’s album her song released by the remarkable Future Sound Of Jazz serie. Her first solo reggae-soul EP was made in cooperation with Marlon B, Jah Meek, Ward 21 and the House Of Riddim titled Runaway and released in 2005 by the Velocity Records.
Riddim Colony
Riddim Colony is one of the freshest actors on the Hungarian dancehall-reggae scene formed last year. The ten-member band with three ragga-singers has a growing fan club and recognition. They play mainly own songs in a modern roots reggae and dancehall style.
Love Alliance
Members
DJ Bosi: selector
MC Kemon: rap, vocal, selector
Dr. Dermot: selector
tel.: (06 1) 464 39 40
www.a38.hu
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April 21, 2007 8:47 AM
23.04. MONDAY. @ 9 PM. Mezzoforte (IS)
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Blue Music
jazz
Hot jazz-funk from the land of geysers! Mezzoforte from Iceland gave the greatest hits of jaaz-rock to the world, and are by the way more active than ever. They strike in our Blue Music serie aboard!
Mezzoforte (IS)
Mezzoforte as a group, holds a very special place in their native Iceland. They were after all the the first Icelandic musicians to open the gates to the world market as well as opening the eyes of the world to the fact that in the high north, not unlike the deep south, there is some great music to be found, music that reflects the unique inventiveness, buzzing energy and general Fortissimos of its creators.
Mezzoforte have been at it since they were 15 . They´re still Playing for Time, still Rising, and seemingly with No limits. It now looks like they´re in it for a lifetime. Whether you belong to the formidable congregation of faithful followers or have just joined the club, you´re in for a treat. Mezzoforte are preparing for a 21st Century Garden Party and it´s about to start. I´m counting on being on the guest list....
Having worked with some of the world´s most renowned wind instrumentalists, Mezzoforte has now proudly added Icelandic reedman Oskar Gudjonsson to their stable of repectable side men. The latest version of the live band is completed by trumpetist/keyboardist Sebastian Studnitzky, percussionist Thomas Dyani and guitarist Bruno Mueller who takes the place of Fridrik Karlsson, whose busy schedule with musical projects of his own as well as session work for various artists has limited his flexibility to tour. Fridrik remains fully active in the writing and recording part of the bands activities.
Line up
Eythor Gunnarson: keyboards
Johann Asmundsson: bass guitar
Guli Briem: drums
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Bruno Müller: guitar
Sebastian Studnitzky: keyboards, trumpet
Oskar Gudjonsson: saxophone
Advance booking: 5000 HUF
At the door: 5000 HUF
www.a38.hu
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April 22, 2007 7:10 AM
24.04. TUESDAY @ 7:30 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Jorn Lande (NO) Everwood (H)
album promotion
rock, heavy metal
Jorn Lande started off in the company of one of the ex-Whitesnakes, The Snakes.On the A38 Ship we will hear songs from his solo album first of all, but also famous tunes by the ARK and the Masterplan, while also some rock evergreens from the seventies will be featured.
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April 24, 2007 8:37 AM
26.04.THURSDAY @ 9.PM
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Besh o Drom, Akkezdet Phiai
world music, folk, hip hop, funky, soul
A special mix of styles: fast tempo world music from the Balkans by the a Besh o droM will meet the masters of the loosy pulsating hiphop, the Akkezdet Phiai.
Besh o droM
The futuristic wedding band Besh o droM is a 10-piece electroacoustic collective, combining ethnic folk roots, driving beats and wild jazz improvisation to spectacular effect. Their sound exemplifies the vital creative energy that is flourishing throughout the region and fusing east and west in myriad new ways.
Band members
Gergő Barcza: sax
Ádám Pettik: percussions
László Békési: sax, clarinet
József Csurkulya: cimbalom
Attila Sidoo: guitar
Péter Tóth: trumpet
Tamás Zsoldos: bass
Dr. Csaba Talabos: tapan
Discography
Macsó hímzés, 2000
Nekemtenemmutgatol!, 2002
Gyí!, 2004
Akkezdet Phiai
Ujonc (Rookie) and Saiid started writin beats and lyrics in 1996 as HTA (Higher Tone Alliance. First lyrics were in english, then after about a year, they chose to use their mother tounge for rappin, thus the name had to be changed to HUngarian too, so the group's name was finally changed to Akkezdet Phiai (Son's of Outset) in 1999. These were the times when the first tracks were put out on demo cds, tracks like Phasskivan, Tartsdmegatavot, Ujtanek that are now on the debut album, and some of them like Spangli Rabja and Ittvakeringy didn't make it, so they're only available in demo versions. These demos spread through the country quickly. Sometimes during this period, Streetnoyz Entertainment was founded by Fari Saiid, which will bring a new line of hiphop into Hungary in the year 2005. The demos aired a lot on the famous Rocksteady Beat Show on EstFM Radio thanx to DJ Gyoremix!, then it quickly spread out in all different versions within the underground scene. As the music spread more performances followed, and next to small hiphop clubs in the country the group also performed on big events in front of huge crowds, they opened for Rza, Masta Killa, and Tekitha on the Rza SHow in Budapest 2001, had gigs on the famous Pepsi Sziget in 2003 and 20004, opened for De La Soul on the 2003 DMC World Championships in Budapest, and shared stage with Planet Asia, Declaime and several US artists. As the group became known, they were requested to make the soundtrack for dm Csaszi's "1 Het" (1 Week), which is a movie about one week of a gypsy struggling in the streets of BUdapest, and which won the jury's award on the Amateur Movie Awards of Hungary in 2004, and the main track took the award for Best Soundtrack in 2004. The demo was so successful, that it was time to make a studio album, which includes most of the tracks appearing on the demos. This is how Akkezdet got into a connection with WacuumAirs label and CEO Bobakrome. After about 6 months in the studio perfecting the music, the debut album entitled Akkezdet was released on 10 April 2004. The album contains almost 80 minutes of music and was released under the first independent hiphop label in Hungary, WacuumAirs. This album was the first Hungarian album with a booklet containing all the lyrics on the cd. Tracks on Akkezdet were all produced by Saiid except for "Van Gond" (We have a problem) produced by Fari for Streetnoyz Ent., which has the imfamous hook with Hungarian comedist Geza Hofi's (RIP) words about politics, and poverty. The album was mastered by Bobakrome, the cover design with the robots was made by Digital Reality. Akkezdet LP was reviewed in several magazines and webpages, and most of the time it received 9 stars out of 10, was called and "instant classic", "a milestone in the Hungarian music scene", and "the first real Hungarian hiphop".
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April 25, 2007 10:56 AM
Organ diploma concert by Petra Soltész
May 02. 2007 Wednesday 7:00 PM
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Featuring: Pest County Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Tibor Noseda
J. S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
Schumann: Etudes in Canon Form No. 4
J. Reubke: Sonata in C minor (94th psalm)
Daquin: XI Noël en Recit en Traille
Guilmant: Sonata in D minor for Organ and Orchestra
A new phase in the extensive professional cooperation between the Palace of Arts and the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music comes in the form of offering the opportunity to certain graduating students to give their diploma concerts in various halls of the Palace. The first two graduates from the 2006/2007 year to perform will be Dániel Sárosi and Petra Soltész (May 2) who will sit at the monumental concert organ at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall which will be a lifetime's experience for both of them, and their audiences of course.
After Music Academy students have “invaded” the first floor foyer and “played in” its superb Steinway piano at their afternoon concerts, final year students now stake a claim on the Glass Hall with its superb panorama of the Danube. The series of pianists’ diploma concerts will be started by Sebestyén Nyírő on June 26th but many more are sure to succeed him, making full use of the excellent possibilities of the Palace of Arts.
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3300, 555-3301, 555-3303
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May 2, 2007 4:26 PM
May 04. 2007 Friday 7:30 PM
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Featuring: Glenn Dicterow – violin, Carter Brey – cello
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3, op. 72
Brahms: Double Concerto, op. 102
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 and is one of the oldest symphonic orchestras in the world. Every year they give around one hundred and eighty concerts and in December 2004 gave their fourteen thousandth ever recital – no orchestra anywhere can match that statistic. Since 1917, they have made close on two thousand recordings, of which five hundred are still obtainable today.
Lorin Maazel first conducted the orchestra at the age of 12 (yes, twelve!) and has worked as a guest conductor over a hundred times. In 2002, he accepted the post of music director, following the footsteps of such illustrious predecessors as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta and Kurt Masur. He is one of the great living conductors and in his seventy seven years, he has conducted some hundred and fifty orchestras in some five thousand concerts and opera performances.
Glenn Dicterow has been concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic since 1980 and is also a professor at the Juilliard School. He is also a busy soloist. He performed the Tchaikovsky concerto at the age of eleven with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his father was a member for close on fifty years. Carter Brey has been principal cellist of the orchestra for the last ten years and in 1997 performed the Tchaikovsky Rococo variations as soloist with conductor Kurt Masur. When Masur retired as music director in 2002, Brey and Dicterow also performed the Brahms Double concerto in A minor (the composer’s last orchestral work, written in 1887) at Masur’s farewell concert series.
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
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May 3, 2007 9:21 AM
May 05. 2007 Saturday 11 AM
Concerts with students of the Academy of Music
Budapest Bartók Choir
Glass Hall
Lajos Bárdos: Cantemus
Palestrina: Exultate Deo
Melchior Frank: Gehet hin
Liszt: Salve Regina
Tamás Daróci Bárdos: Praise the Lord
Lightfoot: Jubilant Gloria
György Orbán: Missa secunda Gloria / Credo
Lajos Bárdos: Starflower
Lajos Bárdos: At the Patkó Family
Kodály: Evening Song
Kodály: Pictures from the Mátra
With: Eszter Dóri - piano
Conducted by: Tamás Hornyák and Árpád Zólyomi
One of the most important aims of the Palace of Arts is to bring the genre of classical music closer to the audience. With the Atmosphere Concerts we manage to fulfil this aim a physical sense, too: the concerts take place in the Vestibule or in the Glass Hall on Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons. What is even more important is that these concerts provide admission free, informal occasions of special atmosphere for meeting the genre and its young artists.
Our initiative met the intention of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, this school of great traditions, to provide its students with the largest number of performance possibilities. Performers of these concerts are talented young artists appearing in front of the audience with productions mature enough for the stage.
We heartily recommend them to your attention.
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
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May 4, 2007 11:00 AM
05.05. Saturday 8:00PM
Amorphis (FIN)
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
heavy metal
Founded in 1990 in Helsinki, Amorhis have worked their way to the apex of the European metal scene. The big break-through came in 1994 with their album Tales From The Thousand Lakes, that won the band a massive fan base around the world.
tel.: (06 1) 464 39 40
www.a38.hu
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May 4, 2007 11:07 AM
May 07. 2007 Monday 7:00 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Festival Theatre
The show of the soloists of the Hungarian National Ballet
This two-part production comprises foreign and Hungarian, modern and classical concert pieces performed by stars of the Hungarian National Ballet, as well as work by young Hungarian choreographers Miklós Dávid Kerényi, András Lukács, Andrea Merlo and Mariann Venekei.
Audiences have welcomed all the Palace of Arts ballet events with great interest so far. We hope that this gala-style production will be first of a long tradition and that the number one Hungarian ballet troupe will find new devotees to extend its existing base of supporters.
Further performances:
Festival Theatre, 19.00
May 7; June 22
A production by the Hungarian National Ballet Foundation
First Act:
Duet
Music: R. Wagner
Choreography: Wayne Eagling
Dancers: Anna Tsygankova, Bence Apáti
Whirling
Music: Philip Glass
Choreography: András Lukács (Harangozó Prize)
Dancers: Ildikó Bacskai, Levente Bajári (Harangozó Prize)
’Gopak’ from the ballet ’Taras Bulba’
Music: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy
Choreography: Fjodor Lopuhov
Dancers: Miklós Dávid Kerényi, András Szegő
About the Hungarian Dance Academy:
We aim at giving young artist students an opportunity to gain as much practice and stage routine as possible.
Promising students of the Hungarian Dance Academy are coming up next, who have achieved significant results at noted international ballet competitions.
Sleeping Beauty – Act 3., female version
Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: M. Petipa
Dancer: Eszter Ledán - HDA, 8th year, 2005 Helsinki International Ballet Competition – 2nd Prize
Swan Lake – Act 3., female version
Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: M. Petipa, L. Ivanov
Dancer: Laura Nistor - HDA, 8th year
Don Quijote – male version
Music: L. Minkus
Choreography: M. Petipa
Dancer: Richárd Szabó - HDA, 8th year,
2004 Berlin Dance Olypmics – 2nd Prize,
2005 Helsinki International Ballet Competition – Special Recognition
2006 St Petersburg Vaganova Competition – 2nd Prize,
2006 Pekingi International Ballet Competition – 3rd Prize
Me, Myself and I
Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marianna Venekei (Harangozó Prize)
Dancers: Miklós Dávid Kerényi, István Koháry, Levente Bajári (Harangozó Prize), Roland Liebich, András Szegő
Le Corsaire - Pas de Deux
Music: R. Drigo
Choreography: M. Petipa
Dancers: Aleszja Popova (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Harangozó Prize), József Cserta
(Harangozó Prize)
Second Act:
Sleeping Beauty - Pas de Deux – Act 3.
Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: M. Petipa
Dancers: Radina Dace, Zoltán Oláh (Harangozó Prize)
Spartacus - Pas de Deux
Music: A. Khachaturian
Choreography: László Seregi (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Excellent Artist)
Assistant: Ildikó Kaszás (Artist of Merit)
Dancers: Katalin Volf (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit), Bence Apáti
Photo: Vera Éder
Métamorphoses Nocturnes – Part One
Music: György Ligeti (String Quartet No. 1, Movements No. 1-4.)
Choreography: Andrea Paolini Merlo
Lighting: Andrea Paolini Merlo
Costumes: Mónika Herwerth
Dancers: Zsófia Gyarmati, Ildikó Bacskai, Orsolya Gáspár, Adrienn Pap, Alexander Komarov, György Szirb, Dániel Fodor, Bálint Katona
The Cedar - Pas de Deux
Music: Frigyes Hidas
Choreography: László Seregi (Kossuth Prize, Artist of Merit, Excellent Artist)
Dancers: Krisztina Keveházi, József Cserta (Harangozó Prize)
Assistant: Ildikó Kaszás (Artist of Merit)
Esmeralda – female version
Music: C. Pugni
Choreography: M. Petipa
Dancer: Ágota Ecseki - HDA, 6th year, 2004 Berlin Dance Olympics – 1st Prize
Grand Pas Classique – female version
Music: D. F. Auber
Choreography: V. Gsovsky
Dancer: Lili Felméry - HDA, 6th year, 2004 Berlin Dance Olympics – 1st Prize, 2006 St Petersburg Vaganova Competition – Special Recognition for Best Partner
Moskovsky Waltz
Music: Moskovsky
Choreography: Vajnonen
Dancers: Radina Dace, Levente Bajári (Harangozó Prize)
Swan Lake - Pas de Deux and Coda – Act 3.
Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: M. Petipa, L. Ivanov
Dancers: Anna Tsygankova, Zoltán Oláh (Harangozó Prize)
This is our heArt
Music: Moloko, Zagar
Choreography: Kerényi Miklós Dávid
With: Alexandra Kozmér, Tünde Sára Kerényi, Marcsi Bánovics, Csaba Solti, István Koháry, Mátyás Sarvady, Miklós Dávid Kerényi
Assistant: Alexandra Kozmér
Costumes: Vidra
Film: Márton Karczag
Photos: Mátyás Sarvady
Standard breaker: Lumpi
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May 7, 2007 5:09 PM
May 08. 2007 Tuesday 7:30 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Gil Shohat: Jewish Festive Overture
Saint-Saëns: Piano concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22
Verdi: The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera entitled Nabucco
Bernstein: West Side Story Highlights
With: Keren Hanan (ISRAEL) - piano, Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (ISRAEL), Noa Tishby (IZRAEL), Mariann Falusi, Boldizsár László - vocals, Honvéd Men’s Choir (choir master: Péter Drucker), and the Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra Budafok
Conducted by: Gábor Hollerung
The concert will take place in the frame of the event series Israeli Cultural Spring, which aims at presenting the colourful beauties of the numerous faces of Israel on occasion of the anniversary of the independence of the state of Israel, with the help of noted Israeli and Hungarian artists.
Organised by: Interkultur Hungaria Kht.
Supported by: Foundation for the Understanding Between Peoples
Chief patron: David Admon, Ambassador of Israel
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May 7, 2007 5:11 PM
May 09. 2007 Wednesday 7:00 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Festival Theatre
Music: Nikola Parov
Costumes: Zsuzsa Imrik
Sets, paintings: Géza Barcsik
Choreography: Ildikó Németh, Gábor Mihályi, Béla Ónodi, Tamás Szappanos, Miklós Végső
Musicians: Mihály Borbély, Ferenc Kovács, Beáta Salamon, Zsigmond Lázár, László Major, Mihály György, Kálmán Balogh, Ferenc Kovács, Zoltán Orosz
Solos sung by: Ágnes Herczku, Ferenc Németh
Dance company leader: Richárd Kökény
Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga
Director-choreographer: Gábor Mihályi,
artistic director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
The creators of the Sun legend have added an original, unprecedented world of spectacle and sound to the existing range of Hungarian and international dance productions. The Sun legend is fresh, creative, a thoroughly 21st-century dance theatre performance, which uses the special means of this art form to represent the cult of the Sun, its role in our life, the connection between its course across the firmament and the path and turning points of a human life.
The choreographer Gábor Mihályi has amalgamated the most dynamic and sweeping motifs of Hungarian and Central East European folk dance in a performance by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. In acknowledgement of this achievement, he was awarded the prize “Creator of the Year” in 2000 by the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists. The composer for the production is Nikola Parov, who has travelled the world as a soloist for Riverdance. Parov worked from East European folk music tradition to create a new, original musical world, in which the saxophone, drums, brass instruments and the violin fuse in perfect harmony. This piece, created in the style of folk and world music, is an enchanting combination of tradition and the mystical.
Further performance:
Festival Theatre
May 23, June 30, 19.00
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May 7, 2007 5:16 PM
Ignite (USA), Death by Stereo (USA), Burn the 8 Track (CDN)
May 08. 2007 Tuesday @ 8:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
heavy metal, rock
Tough rock and metal that connects the USA with Hungary, Hungary with Canada, and Canada with the USA. Rock above all!
Ignite (USA)
Orange County's Ignite aren't another punk rock/hardcore band. They don't wear make up. They don't care about image. They aren't a here today, gone tomorrow flash in the pan. They aren't tired scenesters, clinging desperately to the past. So what, you ask, are Ignite? That's easy.
Ignite, who've been making music together for over 10 years, are a successful, international act with a diehard global following. They've got a proven, rabid fanbase that populates over 30 countries, thanks to their Iron Man tour scheduling. People go crazy for Ignite all over Europe, Australia, South America, and in their native US, and that's why the band lives on the road, bringing the fans what they want and what they need.
Ignite are rock band with hardcore roots, a rock band that supports a series of environmentally and socially conscious groups like Doctors Without Borders, Habitat For Humanity, Sea Shepherds, Project Blue Sea, and Earth First. Ignite have donated the proceeds from a series of seven inches, ten inches, and splits to these causes. They've released three albums, A Place Called Home (2000), Past Our Means (1996) and Call On My Brothers (1995), all of which enjoy a place in the hardcore canon. Our Darkest Days is their latest full-length, and first for Abacus Recordings.
Line up
Zoli Teglas: vocals
Brett Rasmussen: bass
Brian Balchack: guitar
Nik Hill: guitar
Craig Anderson: drums
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May 7, 2007 5:21 PM
10.May,Thursday @ 9:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Ya Basta! Sound System Live - DJ Solal vs. Bucky Baxter (F/USA) introduction to the Moonshine Sessions, DJ Philippe Solal (F, Gotan Project), Daniel Haaksman (D)
electronica
One of the most influential on the downtempo electronic scene of this decade was the Gotan Project-album titled Revancha del tango released in 2001. The trio defined a new direction for the electronic world music based on the fantastic tradition of Astor Piazzolla. The founder of the Gotan Project Philippe Cohen Solal released Moonshine Sessions, a fantastic. loosy electro-country-pop album with Bob Dyílans frequent partner, the steel-guitarist Bucky Baxter. After their live act of Moonshine Sessions Solal will do a marathon dj-ing of four hours to incraze all.
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May 8, 2007 3:47 PM
10.May, Thursday 7:00 PM
Győr Ballet
Phantom of the Opera
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3300, 555-3301, 555-3303
Festival Theatre
Music: Franz Liszt, Carl Maria von Weber, Pablo de Sarasate, Jules Massenet, Adolphe Adam, Henryk Wieniawski, Franz Schubert, Max Bruch, Attila Reményi
Libretto based on novel by Gaston Leroux: Libor Vaculik
Sets, costumes: Judit Gombár
Voice of the Phantom: Géza Tordy
Assistants: Gizella Horváth, László G. Szabó
Director-choreographer: Libor Vaculik
Artistic director, manager: János Kiss
Christine Daaé sees an apparition of her dead father, who promises the little girl to send to her the angel of dance.
The Paris opera ballet is preparing for a new premiere. The title role is to be danced by Charlotte, the aging prima ballerina, but she suffers an accident. Only Christine, the new member of the troupe could salvage the production, as the Phantom has sought her out and taught her all the most delicate movements. In the end, the performance and Christine meet with huge success.
Years later, she meets Raoul, who feels more for her than for an idol. Charlotte finds it hard to tolerate her younger colleague’s success on the stage and in private life.
The Phantom takes Christine to his realm and organises her a splendid angelic concert. But when she removes his mask, he rages and leads her out of his realm.
At the masked ball the Phantom hands his libretto to the two directors of the opera. He had written a role for his beloved, Christine. Charlotte is unable to conceal her jealousy and tears the libretto to pieces, which so enrages the Phantom, that he tears down the chandelier, which squashes Charlotte. Christine realises that she had been the cause for all the mishap and flees to her father’s grave to find solace.
The Phantom reveals all his secrets to Christine and confesses his love. He says that he would do anything for her and would even kill Raoul, who stands in his way. He would leave him alive only if Christine were to marry him. She accepts, for Raoul is more important to her than anything.
The Phantom later understands the folly of his demand and disappears from the life of the young lovers. Perhaps he has moved to another theatre, for every theatre has its own phantom…
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May 8, 2007 3:52 PM
13. Sunday, May 2007 @ 7:30 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Bea Palya – vocals, Miklós Lukács – cimbalom, Balázs Dongó Szokolay – saxophone, bagpipes, recorder, Csaba Novák – double bass, András Dés – percussion
Guests: Zoltán Lantos – violin, Vincent Le Quang – soprano saxophone, Theodossii Spassov – kaval
Bea Palya, with her gorgeous voice, is the leading light of the younger generation of Hungarian folk singers. She is known for her work with Folkestra, Kárpátia and the Etnofon Music Society. She now presents a new French published album with her quintet. Much of the rich material, which is influenced by both Carpathian Basin and Western music, is constructed on Bea’s own texts, penetrating the folk music and modern song writing traditions with her highly personal voice. A Bulgarian melody, a French chanson or an arrangement of a Sarah Vaughan song are all heard sung with equal character, and Bea Palya is helped by such superb guest musicians as Theodossii Spassov or violinist Zoltán Lantos.
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May 13, 2007 9:04 AM
May 13. Sunday 2007, @ 7:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
VI. International Acoustic Guitar Festival - Dylan Fowler, Peter Finger, Dean Magraw, Szabó Sándor
Entry: 2000 HUF
jazz, blues, rock
Innovative, classical, improvising, virtuoso, folk and jazzy tunes from the masters of the acoustic guitar this time accompanied by am outstanding percussionist.
Szabó Sándor
In his music he blends the classical forms with meditative mood of the Eastern music, Hungarian folk musical elements and improvisation that he inherited from jazz. The athmosphere of his concerts is intimate and personal.
Up to now, Szabó is repeatedly toured throughout Europe and also performed several times in the USA and Japan, Korea as a fingerstyle guitar player. He also did some master classes in the US and France of his special harmony concept.
Sandor Szabo is continously working in his homeland to educate the audience for the acoustic guitar music. He is one of the organizers of the annual International Acousticguitar Festival in Hungary.
Albums
Ritual of a Spiritual Communion (Major Balázzsal), 1986
The Clear Perception of Provenance within (Major Balázzsal és Gilbert Isbinnel), 1987
Sanctified Land, 1991
Hypnos (SzaMaBa Trió), 1993
Anima (SzaMaBa Trió), 1995
Opus Magnum (SzaMaBa Trió), 1996
Alexandria, 1997
Gaia & Aries, 1998
Echolocation I., 1999
Dreams within Dreams, 2000
Nearness of Earth, 2001
Hungarian Jazz Rhapsodie, 2003
The Art of the 16 String Guitar I., 2004
Acoustic Poetry, 2005
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May 13, 2007 9:10 AM
May 15. 2007, Tuesday 5:00 PM
Palace of Arts
Concerts with students of the Academy of Music
Mirjam Brezovácz - piano
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Elõcsarnok angol
Chopin: Ballad in F minor
Rahmaninov: Etude in D minor, op. 39
Prokofiev: Sonata in G minor, op. 1 nr. 1
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
One of the most important aims of the Palace of Arts is to bring the genre of classical music closer to the audience. With the Atmosphere Concerts we manage to fulfil this aim a physical sense, too: the concerts take place in the Vestibule or in the Glass Hall on Saturday mornings and Tuesday afternoons. What is even more important is that these concerts provide admission free, informal occasions of special atmosphere for meeting the genre and its young artists.
Our initiative met the intention of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, this school of great traditions, to provide its students with the largest number of performance possibilities. Performers of these concerts are talented young artists appearing in front of the audience with productions mature enough for the stage.
We heartily recommend them to your attention.
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May 15, 2007 8:30 AM
Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
May 16. 2007, Wednesday 7:30 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Featuring: Judit Németh, Tamás Kóbor, István Kovács – singers, National Choir (choirmaster: Mátyás Antal)
Conductor: Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, op. 17 – dramatic symphony
The Romeo and Juliet symphony of Hector Berlioz is one of the great emblematic creations of French romantic music. Berlioz himself conducted the work in 1839 at its Paris premiere. Berlioz uses a text by Emile Deschamps, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name, and fuses the devices of opera, oratorio and symphony to create a remarkable four movement work with an orchestral introduction and choral prologue. In the preface to the score, Berlioz makes it clear that this is not a concert opera nor a cantata. Berlioz entrusts the most important message, the drama and the interpretation of feelings to the orchestra.
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May 15, 2007 8:35 AM
May 15. Tuesday 2007, @ 8:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Samuel Torres Group (COL)
jazz
Latin madness with Samuel Torres, alias Pepito with his shaker-solo. Has already performed with Richard Bona on the A38 but now its time to hear crazy percussion from Columbia with their funky salsa, afro and carribbean folk.
Samuel Torres Group (COL)
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Samuel graduated in Music Composition from Universidad Javeriana of Bogota. He started playing at age twelve and recalls learning a great deal from in-home jam sessions with friends of his musically inclined grand parents and relatives and began playing around with different bands in his hometown.
Although a classically trained percussionist, Samuel was drawn by the sound and rhythms of different styles, especially Latinamerican and Jazz. In 1998 he traveled to the United States, where he was contracted with Grammy Award Winner Arturo Sandoval with whom he toured throughout the world for four years.
Upon his arrival to the US Samuel has played with renowned jazz artists such as the late Tito Puente, Chick Corea, Poncho Sanchez, Caribbean Jazz Project, Pete Escovedo, Dave Valentin, Michael Brecker, Don Byron and Claudio Roditi amongst other.
He has also performed as a guest of the Florida International University’s big band, the 4th of July Esplanade 2000 with the Boston Pops, 2000, Singapore Arts Festival, the "5 de Mayo" Celebration 2001 with the Nashville Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Latin Festival 2001 with the L.A. Philharmonic, 2001 Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan and many more.
Samuel’s stellar playing landed him the Second Place at the 2000 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for Hand Percussion.
He creates beautiful, yet challenging music designed to appeal to the discriminating listener. With artfully, dynamic and relaxed chops that match speed with precision, The Boston Globe describes his playing: "a ferocious conga solo by Samuel Torres that seemed not humanly possible".
Samuel moved to New York in late 2002, where he is gaining recognition and respect in the most competitive of musical settings while continues performing in leading venues and festivals throughout the world.
Latin Percussion, Inc., the renowned percussion builder appointed him as the leader, producer, composer of "Drum Solos Revisited" a DVD targeted to those interested in learning and/or improving their technique and soloist improvisational skills. Founder of LP, Martin Cohen claims that "he had not met an arranger/producer so talented in over 25 year" .
In 2004 Samuel Torres began working with the exceptionally gifted bassist, Richard Bona, again demonstrating his commitment to taking his talent to all areas of music.
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May 15, 2007 8:43 AM
May 17. 2007. Thursday 7:00 PM
Bolero / Message of Angels / Bolero – a performance by the Hungarian Festival Ballet
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
I. Bolero
Music: Maurice Ravel
Desire: Mónika Misáczi / Gábor Nyári
II. Message of Angels
Music: J. S. Bach
Costumes: Márta Pilinyi
Soloists: Krisztina Loósz, Gábor Nyári, Mónika Misáczi, István Issovits, Márton Csöppüs
Ballet: Éva Krenyác, Mariann Csernyi, Katalin Csizmadia, Szonja Stetina, Tamara Szlizs, Petra Goszton, Tamás Házi, Krisztián Kiss
Choreographer-director, art director: Iván Markó
On 17 and 18 May in the Festival Theatre, the Hungarian Festival Ballet, which was founded in 1996 by Iván Markó (the Kossuth Prize-winner Artist of Merit who turns 60 this year), will present two choreographies of Markó. The Message of Angels will be performed between the male and female versions of Bolero.
In the Markó-choreography created to the most erotic piece of music history, Ravel’s Bolero, Desire assumes a form, and chases men and women towards ecstasy and each other. Desire resurrects repeatedly to annihilate itself in the fulfilled loving embrace and revive itself afterwards. The choreographies of the male and female versions are almost completely the same, still the difference is immense: in Markó’s words ’as much difference as there is between the woman and the man.’
At the beginning of the third millennium, we have encountered a yet unparalleled need to protect our Earth and to revive the love and responsibility of people towards each other. The Message of Angels tries to interpret this feeling with the help of Bach’s wonderful music, and the through the means of movements and spectacle. The joy of music and dance, the eternal desire of man to overcome the force of gravity (that is to experience the feeling of flight) inspired the choreographer, Iván Markó. The emotional, spiritual and dynamic depth, soar and intensity of Bach’s music face the ensemble with an extremely difficult task. In our distressed and tense situation, the Message of Angels gives light and faith, which shows us the way to each other and helps us recognise our interdependence.
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May 16, 2007 10:50 AM
May 17. 2007. Thursday 7:30 PM
Maurice El Médioni (France); Les Hurlements D’Léo (France)
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
FRANCOPHONE FESTIVAL
Maurice El Médioni – piano, Claude Maimaran – drums, Raphael Benchimol – derbuka, Mardoche Maimaran – bass guitar
Les Hurlements D’Léo: Laulo – vocals, guitar, Rémi – drums, Benziz – saxophone, piano, guitar, Dawed – double bass, Lojo – accordion, trombone, Pépito – trumpet, R1 Wallace – vocals, guitar, Zébulon – violin, guitar
According to reliable sources, there are two hundred and forty different types of cheese in France and roughly the same number of musical trends. If we add to this the French speaking territory beyond France, then an entire universe of music opens up which would require months of exploration. We can’t undertake such a project now of course, but the performers of our “francophone” taster come from a truly broad geographic and stylistic spectrum.
The Francophone Festival was made possible by support from the Bureau Export de la Musique Française Berlin and the Budapest French Institute.
Sixty eight year old Maurice El Médioni is one of the “pianorientalist” legends of our era. He was born in Oran and as a self taught pianist created his own unmistakable coffee house style from boogie-woogie, rumba and rai. In the fifties he moved to France where he played with legendary names but then fell into obscurity, only to re-emerge two decades ago with one of the most sensational comebacks of the nineties. His album Café Oran was made with Frank London, David Krakauer, Mahmoud Fadl and Sabah Habas Mustapha and recently he has also recorded a sensational album with Cuban Robert Rodriguez.
The Bordeaux based Les Hurlements D’Léo have established themselves over their eleven years career as the most superb “students” of the “Les Negresses Vertes – Mano Negra school”. And yet they have a style of their own: the band overwhelm their audiences with the bohemian mood and poetry of French chansons in both concerts and recorded albums.
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May 16, 2007 10:53 AM
17. May, Thursday @ 9:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Afterburning - Respect to Capleton - Irie Maffia, Knotty Headz, Irie Maffia Sound System, Suhaid & Dermot reggae hip-hop special, Tetőterasz: Bosi & barátai
reggae, dancehall, dub, ska
A night dedicated to the immense music and personality of Capleton. Admission free for those wearing the wrstband of the Capleton-gig.
Irie Maffia Soundsystem
Its one of the leading troop of the Hungarian dancehall scene much connected with the Love Alliance crew. Classical, roaring dancehall/reggae along with a machine-gun tongued MC from Granada, fast-as-lighning Hungarian selectors and crazy riddimers. Irie Maffia is celebrating its first anniversary with this gig, and also celebrating its nice success so far on the international scene.
Members
Dr Dermot
MC Kemon
Jumurdzsak
Busa
Suhaid
Suhaid is one of Hungary’s most all-round djs, who consequently refuses style-fetishism. His favourites include though nu jazz and soul-funk of the seventies, contemporary underground hiphop, Hungarian evergreens, beat and bigbeat, and whatever else.
He likes performing with live acts, especially with those open-minded jazz sax-players who can easily make excursions into the spheres of dance music like János Vázsonyi or Béla. Ágoston. He is also a restless organizer of the Jazz Turbulence nights too.
DJ Bosi
Bosi, it is Gábor Boskovits has been a well-known actor of the Hungarian reggae and dancehall scene for long. He got used to the Jamaican riddims in German clubs and continued playing them from the late 90-ies in Budapest. Along with Caspar, Mango and mates he formed the Love Alliance, probably the most important collective of the local dancehall-culture. Bosi besides being an excellent selector is a dedicated party-organizer as well, many well-known names from the international scene were brought to Hungary by him.
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May 16, 2007 11:03 AM
May 18. 2007. Thursday 7:00 PM
Bolero / Message of Angels / Bolero – a performance by the Hungarian Festival Ballet
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
I. Bolero
Music: Maurice Ravel
Desire: Mónika Misáczi / Gábor Nyári
II. Message of Angels
Music: J. S. Bach
Costumes: Márta Pilinyi
Soloists: Krisztina Loósz, Gábor Nyári, Mónika Misáczi, István Issovits, Márton Csöppüs
Ballet: Éva Krenyác, Mariann Csernyi, Katalin Csizmadia, Szonja Stetina, Tamara Szlizs, Petra Goszton, Tamás Házi, Krisztián Kiss
Choreographer-director, art director: Iván Markó
On 17 and 18 May in the Festival Theatre, the Hungarian Festival Ballet, which was founded in 1996 by Iván Markó (the Kossuth Prize-winner Artist of Merit who turns 60 this year), will present two choreographies of Markó. The Message of Angels will be performed between the male and female versions of Bolero.
In the Markó-choreography created to the most erotic piece of music history, Ravel’s Bolero, Desire assumes a form, and chases men and women towards ecstasy and each other. Desire resurrects repeatedly to annihilate itself in the fulfilled loving embrace and revive itself afterwards. The choreographies of the male and female versions are almost completely the same, still the difference is immense: in Markó’s words ’as much difference as there is between the woman and the man.’
At the beginning of the third millennium, we have encountered a yet unparalleled need to protect our Earth and to revive the love and responsibility of people towards each other. The Message of Angels tries to interpret this feeling with the help of Bach’s wonderful music, and the through the means of movements and spectacle. The joy of music and dance, the eternal desire of man to overcome the force of gravity (that is to experience the feeling of flight) inspired the choreographer, Iván Markó. The emotional, spiritual and dynamic depth, soar and intensity of Bach’s music face the ensemble with an extremely difficult task. In our distressed and tense situation, the Message of Angels gives light and faith, which shows us the way to each other and helps us recognise our interdependence.
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May 18, 2007 7:17 AM
May 18. 2007. Thursday 7:30 PM
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Concertmaster: János Rolla
Featuring: Markus Stockhausen – trumpet, Tara Bouman – bass clarinet
Britten: Simple Symphony
Markus Stockhausen: Ascent and Pause for Trumpet and Orchestra – world premiere
Markus Stockhausen: Symbiosis for Trumpet and Basset Horn – world premiere
Britten: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge
The final subscription series concert by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra features the German married couple Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman who have appeared together regularly since 2002 in their duo Moving Sounds and with orchestras. Besides improvisations, their repertoire consists of many works by Markus Stockhausen who is an esteemed composer. Today, two of his works will receive their world premieres.
Stockhausen is also acknowledged as a jazz musician and been a member of the Key Quintet, the Rainer Brüninghaus Group and Kairos, and played with musicians such as Enrique Diaz, Arild Andersen, Fabrizio Ottaviucci and Hungarian guitar virtuoso Ferenc Snétberger. Péter Eötvös has also written a work for him, Jetstream, which he premiered in London in 2003. He also works with his brother Simon and they have collaborated on numerous film and theatre piece scores.
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May 18, 2007 7:21 AM
May 18. 2007. Thursday 7:30 PM
BMC Music Flash – A Night of Contemporary and Classical Music
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Glass Hall
László Melis: Black and White – excerpts
Zoltán Lengyel - piano
Purcell: Suite in A minor
Zoltán Jeney: Farewell to György Ligeti
J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Adagio, Fugue - Allegro
Ádám Kondor: Hand ball paper
J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Siciliano, Presto
Liszt: Berceuse (Erste Fassung, 1854)
Ildikó Vékony - cimbalom
Bartók: Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and piano, BB96
András Keller - violin, Dénes Várjon - piano
László Melis’s work ’Black and White’ consists of pieces dance music, as its basis is a Baroque partita. Dances of later eras, like today’s trendy dance music, also appear in the work beside the usual movements. Each movement has a different set of tones, which are usually not „natural” scales. Musical humour is not missing either, putting the performer to a serious technical test in some instances. (László Melis)
’Why these kinds of music?’ – this is the question. There are some that I have been playing for a long time, and some that I have always wanted to play. There are some that are not my cup of tea, however sometimes we appreciate a bit of a change. There are some that I have always expected and still necessitate further years from me to get to the depths. And there are some that shakes me out of my routine to notice the moment when a sound is born.’ (Ildikó Vékony)
The violin rhapsody is a quite peculiar case of the folk music inspiration of Bartók: all themes of the piece originate from existing folk songs, mostly form Romanian material, with some Hungarian and Ruthenian melodies. Bartók divided these into Slow and Fresh movements according to the verbunk tradition, and created a higher artistic form, which lays half way between folk song adaptations and sovereign pieces of composed music. In a 1944 transcript, Bartók shortened the Fresh movement in several instances and wrote a new ending to it.
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May 18, 2007 7:24 AM
18. May, Thursday @ 8:00 PM
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
PASO birthday party, PASO, PASO Sound System, Tizenhét, Kettő-Kettő, Sound Sistaz, DJ Dermot
reggae, dancehall, dub, ska
The leading protagonists of Hungarian ska celebrate their birthday in the form of - what else? - but a huge ska-, reggae, dub and wjatever more festivity.
Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
From Eastern Europe with a natural sound, the Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra a.k.a. PASO set off in 2003 to introduce Jamaican-style ska to Hungarian audiences. The folks liked the style, and as the band focused on live performances for about a year, emotions rapidly soared. Being one with the audience has never been a problem for the group. In the early days it was even hard to distinguish where the band started and the audience ended, this group of ten was everywhere. It was this heavy interaction with fans that helped them to fullfill their deepest aspirations and lay down the foundations of their totally unique style.
Some say it's hard to distinguish PASO's music from the jamaican originals. But the ones, who give the tracks a more careful consideration will ulitmately realise that this music is an exquisite blend of uptempo skanks, bedrock Reggae riddims, 2Tone tunes and deep dub echos, all merged with jazzy grooves and touches of the joyfully, realistic Eastern European musical heritage. This variety comes from the musicians' diverse roots. While they all share a love for ska, they come from different scenes in the Hungarian Underground ranging from hard core to big bands.
From the beginning, PASO pledged to retain the genuine consciousness of the ska and reggae movement. Leading vocalist KRSA's initial appeal is that as the Preacher he chants the tolerance messages to the public. Backed by Hungarian rude boy legend Janos, the guys never miss to have an impact. Their lyrics condemn discrimination of any sort based on gender, race, nationality and sexual preference. While taking stands on social issues, the band retains its jolly, fun-loving attitude, which makes the audience run wild with broad grins on their faces.
As the group gained a substantial following at home, they started touring steadily in the central-Eastern European region showing their style to their brothers with performances on Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian stages. Being a pioneer in the area, their efforts earned them ferocious success wherever they went and encouraged them to dive further into the scene. They started organizing parties, hosting a radio program, and having regular jam sessions with their sound system. Having their name already well established in the region, they set sail for the high seas!
So far they have shared the stage with The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, the Toasters, the Slackers, Dr.Ring-Ding, the Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation and played on the same day at the same festival with the legendary Skatalites! No more comments on this are needed!
PASOund System
The PASOund System is the soundsystem project of the Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra. It means that some Budapest-located members of the PASO (basicly: Lipi and KRSA, at other times Frédi, Jani, Dávid and eventually Zsolti too), along with PASO’s regular selector Áfonya spread the jamaican soundsystem culture through their vinyls, live instruments, rapping and singing.
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May 18, 2007 7:28 AM
May 23. 2007 Wednesday 7:00 PM
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
Sun legend
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
Music: Nikola Parov
Costumes: Zsuzsa Imrik
Sets, paintings: Géza Barcsik
Choreography: Ildikó Németh, Gábor Mihályi, Béla Ónodi, Tamás Szappanos, Miklós Végső
Musicians: Mihály Borbély, Ferenc Kovács, Beáta Salamon, Zsigmond Lázár, László Major, Mihály György, Kálmán Balogh, Ferenc Kovács, Zoltán Orosz
Solos sung by: Ágnes Herczku, Ferenc Németh
Dance company leader: Richárd Kökény
Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga
Director-choreographer: Gábor Mihályi,
artistic director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
The creators of the Sun legend have added an original, unprecedented world of spectacle and sound to the existing range of Hungarian and international dance productions. The Sun legend is fresh, creative, a thoroughly 21st-century dance theatre performance, which uses the special means of this art form to represent the cult of the Sun, its role in our life, the connection between its course across the firmament and the path and turning points of a human life.
The choreographer Gábor Mihályi has amalgamated the most dynamic and sweeping motifs of Hungarian and Central East European folk dance in a performance by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. In acknowledgement of this achievement, he was awarded the prize “Creator of the Year” in 2000 by the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists. The composer for the production is Nikola Parov, who has travelled the world as a soloist for Riverdance. Parov worked from East European folk music tradition to create a new, original musical world, in which the saxophone, drums, brass instruments and the violin fuse in perfect harmony. This piece, created in the style of folk and world music, is an enchanting combination of tradition and the mystical.
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May 23, 2007 8:31 AM
May 23. 2007 Wednesday 7:300 PM
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Conductor: Vladimír Válek
Smetana: Moldau
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F major, op. 76
Janáček: Sinfonietta
The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra come to Budapest as part of “In the Heart of Europe” exchange programme, which also involves the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and ensembles from four other Central-European cities – Vienna, Ljubljana, Bratislava and Prague.
The orchestra will perform three works by emblematic figures of Czech music. Bedřich Smetana’s famous and popular Moldau is the second of the composer’s set of six symphonic poems, Ma Vlast. Antonín Dvořák composed his Fifth Symphony in 1875 but it is rarely heard in concert these days. Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta is uniquely scored, asking for instead of the usual two or three trumpets, no less than twelve.
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May 23, 2007 8:32 AM
24.May, Thursday @ 9:00 PM
Sergent Garcia (F)
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Blue Music
reggae, dancehall, dub, ska, world music, folk
The music, in which the Mediterranean meets the Carribean in the form of a fantastic salsa-festivity by the initiator of the style. Another star in our Blue Music serie.
Sergent Garcia (F)
The charming and completely mad Bruno Garcigo got his nickname Zorro back in his early childhood, which became his real trade mark since. Seargent Garcia started off with a new style named by him salsamuffin whose most popular author and oerforming artist has been noone else but him since: oustanding energy, wild latin rhythms, all this enriched with tasty Jamaican reggae and ragga by one of the most interesting and energetic musicians of the world music scene, that can only be compared with the incrazed Manu Chao project.
Albums
Viva Il Sargento, 1998
Un Poquito Quema'O, 1999
Sin Fronteras, 2001
La Semilla Escondida, 2003
Mascaras, 2006
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May 23, 2007 8:34 AM
May 24. 2007 Thursday, 3:00 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Festival Theatre
Magic Circus
Yvette Bozsik Company
Music: W. A. Mozart
Sets: Zsolt Khell
Costumes: Krisztina Berzsenyi
Lighting: József Pető
Dramaturgy: Tamara Török
Performed by members of the Yvette Bozsik Company and guest dancers
Director-choreographer: Yvette Bozsik
The production was inspired by Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and experience from the eponymous dance performance staged in the autumn of 2006 at the Palace of Arts. That adaptation of The Magic Flute may have been playful but was directed mostly to an adult audience, discussing life, death and love, the fight between the good and the bad. It follows Mozart’s story line but lays greater emphasis on expressing the atmosphere and the ideas of that opera using the language of dance. The Magic Circus is intended for children. The characters are members of a travelling circus (the Queen of the Night is an animal tamer, Tamino is an acrobat, Papageno a clown and Papagena a rope-dancer), putting on a show at Sarastro’s palace.
This is a rare opportunity for a dance troupe, to re-think and re-formulate an existing production for a different audience segment, to translate the story and the “meaning” of Mozart’s opera into a language that children can understand.
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May 24, 2007 2:14 PM
May 24.2007 Thursday, 7:00 PM
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Festival Theatre
Yvette Bozsik Company
The Magic Flut
Dance piece in two parts
Music: W. A. Mozart
Sets: Zsolt Khell
Costumes: Krisztina Berzsenyi
Lighting: József Pető
Dramaturgy: Tamara Török
Film: Erik Novák
Mask: Janka Haraszti
Hairdresser: Bódis Arts
Choreographer’s assistant: Katalin Fodor
Director-choreographer: Yvette Bozsik
Sarastro: József Hámor
Tamino: Szabolcs Gombai
Queen of the Night: Hajnalka Lisztóczki
Pamina, her daughter: Kinga Szent-Ivány
First lady: Samantha Kettle
Second lady: Dóra Szelőczey
Third lady: Aliz Krausz
Papageno: Tamás Vati
Papagena: Rita Góbi
Monostatos: Attila Gergely
First boy: Tímea Fülöp
Second boy: Dóra Hasznos
Third boy: Zsófia Nemes
Slave girl: Emese Jantner
Priests: Gábor Bora, Zoltán Csere, Zoltán Katonka, Gábor Vida, Szabolcs Vislóczky, Ádám Zambriczky
A joint production by the National Dance Theatre and the Yvette Bozsik Company
The German music played was published in 2006 by Vox Arts. We owe special thanks to György Győriványi Ráth, István Matók and Ádám Horváth.
In the last year of his life, Mozart composed The Magic Flute, a magnificent fairy story set to music. With all the trappings of a fairytale, it is a story with a moral, and is both rustic and philosophically exalted at the same time. The libretto is the work of Mozart’s fellow freemason from the same lodge, Emanuel Schikaneder, who hoped to give a boost to his theatre in the suburbs with this fairy opera.
The Magic Flute tells of the fight of the forces of the deep, the dark and the wicked against the principle of beauty, goodness and wisdom. While the choreography follows the story of the opera, it translates its “language” to that of dance. The dance production is a modern version of the opera, combining expressionism and present-day dance styles to reveal the fairy and playful, deep and mystical nature of the opera.
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May 24, 2007 2:18 PM
25.05.Friday @ 23:50 PM.
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
late night drum'n'bass: Miloopa (PL) live on the roof terrace
electronica
In the music of the band from Wroclav drum'n'bass mixes with downtempo fresh jungle with broken beats, lots of electroinica and a marwellous female voice.
Miloopa (PL)
The name of the band reminds in Poland the favorite baby food which kept the last generations healthy growing. Actually the bands idea is to feed too, but obviously serves it’s specialties on a quite different level. Miloopa was founded in 2001 in Wroclaw/Poland. From its very beginning, the band was into club-jazz music scene, mixing various genres. Influenced by electronic and synthetic textures of dj-cultrure, Miloopa kept the shape of a totally live band and developed it’s sound towards a unique live and electronic mix. Whether it’s a monster-subbass-enhanced d’n’b, jungle, or athmosperic, Natalie’s lines gives it always a soulful drive. Miloopa doesn’t put a limit on the creativity – what can be heard on the debut album Nutrition Facts (Gig Ant - www.gig-ant.pl). The CD includes track Cosmic Step with guest vocals by mc Blu Rum 13, known for his collaboration with Dj Vadim, Kid Koala, Luke Vibert and many others. Miloopa real force is live performance: it’s a highly energetic audio-visual show, accompanied by live-mixed visuals and real-time audio-mix. The band played many festivals (Creamfields, Heineken Open’er, Summer of Music, Szene Lustenau, Aspect of Valour…) performed in Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Czech R., toured with many great artists such as: JoJo Mayer & Nerve(USA) Micatone, Forss vs Borg (Sonar Kollektiv), Beanfield (Compost Records) Dj First Rate, Blu Rum 13, performed on one stage with icons like London Elektricity, Roni Size, US3, Dj Vadim, Bahamadia, Amp Fiddler…
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May 24, 2007 2:22 PM
25.05.Friday @ 21 PM.
A38 boat, Budapest, Petőfi bridge Buda-side
Erik Truffaz (CH), Barabás Lőrinc Eklektric, Suhaid, Haze
jazz, electronica
A real leading master of jazz-trumpet who mixes the worlds of Miles Davies with hip-hop and much more.
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May 24, 2007 2:24 PM
May 26. 2007 Saturday 7:30 PM
Lo’Jo (France)
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Festival Theatre
FRANCOPHONE FESTIVAL
Denis Péan – vocals, keyboard instruments, Richard Bourreau – violin, kora, Nadia Nid El Mourid – vocals, Yamina Nid El Mourid – vocals, soprano saxophone, Kham Meslien – bass guitar, Franck Vaillant – drums
In 1982, musicians, poets, circus artists and film makers organised themselves into a commune at Angers, alongside the Loire river. The Lo’Jo band, led by Denis Péan emerged as the “tribal” band which by the mid nineteen nineties has become a cult throughout Europe. Their music is equally close to French chansons, gypsy music, cabaret, dub and East and North African musical traditions. But it is not its myriad colours that make it exceptional but rather the unique blend and its charm and heart melting sensitivity.
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May 26, 2007 7:55 AM
May 26. 2007 Saturday 7:45 PM
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Featuring: Gidon Kremer – violin
Conductor: Iván Fischer
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – first sequence of waltzes
Bartók: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Shortly after its world premiere in Dresden, the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss was staged in Budapest in May 1911, and received over a hundred performances at the Pest Opera House during the composer’s lifetime. The opera, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is set in the time of Maria Theresa, even though the waltz, which Strauss uses to evoke the nostalgia of the golden era of the Monarchy in music, didn’t exist before the 1820s. In 1944, Strauss gathered together the waltzes from the first two acts to make a concert piece.
“The score of the violin concerto was finished on February 5th. […] I have locked it into my draw, I do not know whether I will destroy it or just leave it locked away until it is discovered after my death”, wrote Bartók about his first violin concerto, which he wrote for Stefi Geyer who rejected his amorous advances. He preserved the manuscript until his death and it was finally performed in Basel in 1958 with conductor Paul Sacher, fifty years after it was completed. Today’s soloist is Gidon Kremer. Born in Riga, he is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of our time. He first exploded onto the international music scene over thirty years ago, and like many artists from the Soviet Union who later became world famous, he enjoyed one of his first foreign successes in Budapest.Smetana’s famous and popular Moldau is the second of the composer’s set of six symphonic poems, Ma Vlast. Antonín Dvořák composed his Fifth Symphony in 1875 but it is rarely heard in concert these days. Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta is uniquely scored, asking for instead of the usual two or three trumpets, no less than twelve.
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May 26, 2007 7:56 AM
26. May, Thursday @ 10:00 PM
E-Z Rollers live (UK), Brains, Longman & Bratwa (Tactile)
A38 boat
Budapest, Petőfi bridge, Buda-side
Electronic Beats
electronica, hip hop, funky, soul
The duo that mixes jazz with drum 'n' bass in such a way that they have created a unique, easily floating and pulsating world of sound that was featured even in Guy Richie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Brains
In the dynamic music of this band several styles can be found such as drum & bass, ragga, dancehall, dub, rock and ethno. During the past 11 years they gave more than 500 shows in clubs, college-parties and different festivals. This band proved on stage its dynamic power and impressive sound. The instrumental sound is the most dominant, but influences of the electronic beats, drum and bass and ragga are also significant when they perform live.
Brains shared stage with several well-known bands from Asian Dub Foundation,through Zion Train, Roni Size to Dreadzone.
Line up
Gergely Jeli: drums/sampler
Norbert Vargat: solo guitar
Dávid Endrei: bass guitar
Ábel: Tőkés: guitar
András Kéri: vocals, mc
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May 26, 2007 8:00 AM
May 28. 2007 Monday 7:30 PM
“Hommage a Ligeti”
UMZE Chamber Ensemble
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
In 2006, the UMZE Chamber Ensemble created a new tradition with their concert “Hommage a Ligeti” at the Palace of Arts. In 2007, this concert will be performed on György Ligeti’s birthday, but sadly, the composer, who was born in 1923, passed away on June 12th 2006.
Ligeti studied first at the Cluj Conservatoire and then at the Budapest Academy of Music. Not long afterwards, he created his micro-polyphony which became one of the most fundamental elements in his later music. In December 1956 he left Hungary. While working at the electronic music studios of West German Radio in Cologne, he was deeply influenced from his studies of the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel and Pierre Boulez.
He won many awards, medals and titles, which prove his excellence as an artist, teacher, and as an entire generation can testify, a mentor.
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May 28, 2007 9:36 AM
May 30. 2007 Wednesday 8:00 PM
Charity concert by Zoltán Kocsis for the International Children’s Safety Service
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
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Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Kodály: Székely Lament, Op. 11 No. 2
Ravel-Kocsis: Pavane
Bartók-Országh: Hungarian Folk-songs, BB 109
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90 - La Flûte de Pan; La Chevelure; Le Tombeau des Naïades
Debussy: Petite pièce, L. 120
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965 Op. posth. 129
Debussy: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (Images,II.),L.111/2
Kodály: Hungarian Folk-music, Booklet No.3 - 'I shout out'; 'Carriage and cart'; 'I'm dying, I'm dying'; 'My blooming hemp'; 'The forest is beautiful, when...'; 'Woman, woman, out of the bed!'
Bartók-Szigeti: Hungarian Folk-songs
Kodály: Adagio
Bartók: Eight Hungarian Folk-songs, BB 47
Bartók: Contrasts, BB 116
With: Mária Horváth – vocals, Barnabás Kelemen – violin, Zsolt Szatmári – clarinet, Zoltán Kocsis - piano
In 1990, the world famous pianist Zoltán Kocsis offered to give a concert every year on his birthday, May 30th, to help the International Children’s Safety Service. He decided the best way to celebrate was by raising funds for poor and sick children. Zoltán Kocsis compiles the programme himself and asks friends to perform for free with him.
Revenues from the concert will go to help cover costs of examinations, treatment and operations for underprivileged children.
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