960 result(s) for folk music
Opening Concert Of The Budapest Spring Festival, National Concert Hall, 16 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
“I am very glad to be able to tell you that your viola concerto is ready in draft, so that only the score has to be written, which means a purely mechanical work, so to speak. If nothing happens, I can be through in 5 or 6 weeks,” wrote Bartók to violist William Primrose. The score, however, was never written, and Bartók’s last work remained a torso – some even consider it one of the most ...
Hungary Is Preparing For A National Holiday
- 12 Mar 2012 8:04 AM
- current affairs
"The fifteenth of March is one of the most important Hungarian national holidays. It is the anniversary of the 1848 revolution. The Government is in the last phase of its preparations for this year’s programmes to which, similar to last year’s events, everyone is welcome, from the youngest to the oldest. This national holiday, too, as all others since the change of government in 2010, will be ...
Jewish Music Festival, Budapest, 18 - 27 March
- 12 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Jewish music festival in Budapest in the Spinoza Theatre for the third time.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Stravinsky Evening, Festival Theatre Budapest, 7 March
- 6 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Stravinsky wrote his ballet The Firebird in 1910, taking the miraculous bird of Eastern Slav mythology as its motif. According to the magical Russian folk tale, the firebird has the power to subdue evil demons, singing the spectres of hell to sleep with its lullaby. Les Noces was the first piece in the Evening of Passion premièred in the Hungarian State Opera House. The music and visual design ...
Music Freedom Day Is Coming To Hungary To Bakelit Multi Art Center On 3 March
- 27 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Music Freedom Day is prestigious series of events that is organized every year on the same day, 3rd March by Swedish organisation Freemuse. The aim of creating the organisation was to draw attention to freedom of practising of fundamental human rights and inequalities, barriers and abuses connected with them experienced all over the world.
Hungarian Folk Band Muzsikás, Pianist Schiff Play Sold-Out Show At New York’s Carnegie Hall
- 24 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The folk music group Muzsikás and classical pianist András Schiff gave a concert entitled The Routes and Roots of Bartók at New York’s Carnegie Hall Wednesday night. The sold-out show featured melodies from various regions of Hungary and compositions by Béla Bartók.
Invitation: 'The World Makes Music', Palace Of Arts Budapest, 25 February
- 22 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"This season of concerts and demonstrations will introduce children to folk music from various regions of the world, and instruments most people have never seen or heard before. The balafon is a xylophone-like instrument from West Africa.
Mangalica Festival Budapest, Szabadság Square, 3 - 5 February
- 2 Feb 2012 12:50 AM
- food & drink
"This time on a new venue in Budapest, 5 district Szabadság tér (square). The best licensed traditional small-scale producers and product vendors bring their excellent goods which you can taste freshly made on the spot accompanied by high-class wine and pálinka. On the stage light music and folk music programs are going to change each other entertaining guests."
Video: New Names At Budapest Sziget Festival 2012
- 26 Jan 2012 1:40 AM
- entertainment
The 20th Sziget Festival this summer aims to be a whole lot more than just a jubilee get-together. 2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon: Hurts, and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors: The Horrors. Other new names on this year's line up are Mando Diao, Friendly Fires, Noah And The Whale, The Subways, and Crystal Fighters. ...
Opening Concert Of The Budapest Spring Festival, National Concert Hall, 16 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
“I am very glad to be able to tell you that your viola concerto is ready in draft, so that only the score has to be written, which means a purely mechanical work, so to speak. If nothing happens, I can be through in 5 or 6 weeks,” wrote Bartók to violist William Primrose. The score, however, was never written, and Bartók’s last work remained a torso – some even consider it one of the most ...
Hungary Is Preparing For A National Holiday
- 12 Mar 2012 8:04 AM
- current affairs
"The fifteenth of March is one of the most important Hungarian national holidays. It is the anniversary of the 1848 revolution. The Government is in the last phase of its preparations for this year’s programmes to which, similar to last year’s events, everyone is welcome, from the youngest to the oldest. This national holiday, too, as all others since the change of government in 2010, will be ...
Jewish Music Festival, Budapest, 18 - 27 March
- 12 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Jewish music festival in Budapest in the Spinoza Theatre for the third time.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Stravinsky Evening, Festival Theatre Budapest, 7 March
- 6 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Stravinsky wrote his ballet The Firebird in 1910, taking the miraculous bird of Eastern Slav mythology as its motif. According to the magical Russian folk tale, the firebird has the power to subdue evil demons, singing the spectres of hell to sleep with its lullaby. Les Noces was the first piece in the Evening of Passion premièred in the Hungarian State Opera House. The music and visual design ...
Music Freedom Day Is Coming To Hungary To Bakelit Multi Art Center On 3 March
- 27 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Music Freedom Day is prestigious series of events that is organized every year on the same day, 3rd March by Swedish organisation Freemuse. The aim of creating the organisation was to draw attention to freedom of practising of fundamental human rights and inequalities, barriers and abuses connected with them experienced all over the world.
Hungarian Folk Band Muzsikás, Pianist Schiff Play Sold-Out Show At New York’s Carnegie Hall
- 24 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The folk music group Muzsikás and classical pianist András Schiff gave a concert entitled The Routes and Roots of Bartók at New York’s Carnegie Hall Wednesday night. The sold-out show featured melodies from various regions of Hungary and compositions by Béla Bartók.
Invitation: 'The World Makes Music', Palace Of Arts Budapest, 25 February
- 22 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"This season of concerts and demonstrations will introduce children to folk music from various regions of the world, and instruments most people have never seen or heard before. The balafon is a xylophone-like instrument from West Africa.
Mangalica Festival Budapest, Szabadság Square, 3 - 5 February
- 2 Feb 2012 12:50 AM
- food & drink
"This time on a new venue in Budapest, 5 district Szabadság tér (square). The best licensed traditional small-scale producers and product vendors bring their excellent goods which you can taste freshly made on the spot accompanied by high-class wine and pálinka. On the stage light music and folk music programs are going to change each other entertaining guests."
Video: New Names At Budapest Sziget Festival 2012
- 26 Jan 2012 1:40 AM
- entertainment
The 20th Sziget Festival this summer aims to be a whole lot more than just a jubilee get-together. 2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon: Hurts, and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors: The Horrors. Other new names on this year's line up are Mando Diao, Friendly Fires, Noah And The Whale, The Subways, and Crystal Fighters. ...