766 result(s) for composer
Invitation: Solaris, National Concert Hall Budapest, 17 May
- 15 May 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Despite his young age, Australian-born Ben Frost has entered music history as one of the leading decipherers of contemporary experimental and electronic music, and it is no accident that his name is mentioned increasingly often as an important source of inspiration in interviews with musicians. He has lived and worked in Iceland since the early part of the last decade as part of Bedroom ...
Coming To Budapest, Jan Garbarek, St. Stephen Basilica, 2 May
- 2 May 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"With the unexpected massive success of Officium (ECM, 1994), Jan Garbarek's first collaboration with The Hilliard Ensemble, it would be all too easy for the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal ensemble to rest on their not inconsiderable laurels, and simply repeat the formula.
Pannon Philharmonic Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 April
- 21 Apr 2012 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Hordes of music-lovers expected the young Johannes Brahms to produce a symphony, but the composer himself felt half-paralysed by the legacy of his great predecessor Beethoven. After a wait of 22, years he finally produced his Symphony No. 1 in C minor (op. 68), which was universally recognised as a masterpiece. It is said that the melody of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy can be detected in one of the ...
Top 10 Near To Hungary Destinations, Part 3 - 4
- 10 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- travel
Four more ideas for your vacation planning....
5. Zakopane - This is the Polish destination I mentioned in my last post, which is close enough to the Tátras to combine the two into one trip, if you so desire. This place has it. Charm, charm, charm. I admit I never thought Poland had much of that, although everyone raves about Krakow (I haven’t made it there yet).
Invitation: Nigel Kennedy Quintet, Budapest Congress Center, 28 March
- 28 Mar 2012 9:03 AM
- entertainment
"The Blue Note show repertoire is a selection of music from Nigel Kennedy's celebrated Blue Note Session album and music from the height of the Blue Note era (classic blue note material from the late 60’s / early 70’s period) and would be played by the The Nigel Kennedy Quintet.
Invitation: Música, Musique, Musik, Festival Theatre Budapest, 29 March
- 28 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Composer Albert Márkos searches for reciprocal influences in music and lyrics from the 1910s, the 1920s and 1930s from Scandinavia to the Balkans, from the Iberian Peninsula to Eastern Europe, with the assistance of six actors and a band. The actors each represent a nation and begin to approach each other starting from the given culture’s coffee shop music, discovering how the world of salon ...
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
Invitation: Loreena McKennitt, Budapest Sportaréna, 27 March
- 25 Mar 2012 9:04 AM
- entertainment
"Internationally acclaimed Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt began her musical career by busking with her harp and started running her own record label, Quinlan Road, from her kitchen table. Now, more than two decades later, Manitoba-born McKennitt has seen her “eclectic Celtic” blend of pop, folk and world music span more than a dozen recordings, three DVDs and a new collection of ...
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Invitation: Solaris, National Concert Hall Budapest, 17 May
- 15 May 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Despite his young age, Australian-born Ben Frost has entered music history as one of the leading decipherers of contemporary experimental and electronic music, and it is no accident that his name is mentioned increasingly often as an important source of inspiration in interviews with musicians. He has lived and worked in Iceland since the early part of the last decade as part of Bedroom ...
Coming To Budapest, Jan Garbarek, St. Stephen Basilica, 2 May
- 2 May 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"With the unexpected massive success of Officium (ECM, 1994), Jan Garbarek's first collaboration with The Hilliard Ensemble, it would be all too easy for the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal ensemble to rest on their not inconsiderable laurels, and simply repeat the formula.
Pannon Philharmonic Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 April
- 21 Apr 2012 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Hordes of music-lovers expected the young Johannes Brahms to produce a symphony, but the composer himself felt half-paralysed by the legacy of his great predecessor Beethoven. After a wait of 22, years he finally produced his Symphony No. 1 in C minor (op. 68), which was universally recognised as a masterpiece. It is said that the melody of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy can be detected in one of the ...
Top 10 Near To Hungary Destinations, Part 3 - 4
- 10 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- travel
Four more ideas for your vacation planning....
5. Zakopane - This is the Polish destination I mentioned in my last post, which is close enough to the Tátras to combine the two into one trip, if you so desire. This place has it. Charm, charm, charm. I admit I never thought Poland had much of that, although everyone raves about Krakow (I haven’t made it there yet).
Invitation: Nigel Kennedy Quintet, Budapest Congress Center, 28 March
- 28 Mar 2012 9:03 AM
- entertainment
"The Blue Note show repertoire is a selection of music from Nigel Kennedy's celebrated Blue Note Session album and music from the height of the Blue Note era (classic blue note material from the late 60’s / early 70’s period) and would be played by the The Nigel Kennedy Quintet.
Invitation: Música, Musique, Musik, Festival Theatre Budapest, 29 March
- 28 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Composer Albert Márkos searches for reciprocal influences in music and lyrics from the 1910s, the 1920s and 1930s from Scandinavia to the Balkans, from the Iberian Peninsula to Eastern Europe, with the assistance of six actors and a band. The actors each represent a nation and begin to approach each other starting from the given culture’s coffee shop music, discovering how the world of salon ...
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
Invitation: Loreena McKennitt, Budapest Sportaréna, 27 March
- 25 Mar 2012 9:04 AM
- entertainment
"Internationally acclaimed Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt began her musical career by busking with her harp and started running her own record label, Quinlan Road, from her kitchen table. Now, more than two decades later, Manitoba-born McKennitt has seen her “eclectic Celtic” blend of pop, folk and world music span more than a dozen recordings, three DVDs and a new collection of ...
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...