The worldwide unique “Hundred Member” Gipsy Orchestra was founded in 1985. Those establishing the Orchestra aimed to unite the best of the famous musician dynasties and to ensure a place and workshop for them, their offspring and other talented young musicians.

Saving the traditions of Gipsy and Hungarian folk music, the survival of classical folk music through performing it within the repertoire are among the main goals of the Orchestra.

Next to the repertoire of Gipsy and Hungarian music, they offer popular pieces of the notables of international classical music as well. With its art, the Orchestra is hoping to build a bridge between minority and majority, undertaking its own differences, saving their values to enrich the colorful palette of European culture. With their music the Orchestra finds its way to the very hearts of their audience at all times and all places enrich the colorful palette of European culture.

Date: 30 December 2010
Venue: Budapest Congress & World Trade Center
Address: 1124 Budapest, Jagelló str. 1-3.

Opening: 6 pm

Programme:
6.15 pm – 6.45 pm Wine-tasting and folk dance show

7 pm Concert, Part 1

Katsaturjan: Sword Dance
Erkel: Hungarian Court Dance
Hubay: Wavering Balaton
Monti: Czardas
Horváth Z.: Gipsy Fire
Tunes from Transsylvania: Cimbalom solo
Unknown composer: Popular Russian Tunes
Rossini: William Tell – Overture
Bizet: Carmen (Medley)

8 pm interval

8.20 pm Concert, Part 2

J. Strauss: The Bat – Overture
J. Strauss: Long live the Magyar! (polka)
Brahms: Hungarian Dances No. 1
Csajkovszkij: Waltz of the flowers
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Dinicu: The Lark
J. Strauss: Radetczky March

Price:
Ground floor
– at 8 personed round table with dinner: 110 EUR
– at 6 personed table with wine tasting & salty snacks: 69 EUR

Balcony
– 1st–4th row with wine-tasting: 61 EUR
– 5th–9th row with wine-tasting: 54 EUR "

Source: VIP Arts