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Hungary's Sziget Festival: The Best Of The Biggest
- 12 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Sziget Festival won the Best European Major Festival title at the European Festival Awards. A joint effort of the festival’s organizing team and the votes of a devoted fan base in over 60 countries resulted in the best possible news to start up the year. The prize giving ceremony of the 2011 European Festival Awards took place on 11 January in Groningen, The Netherlands. Music industry ...
Famous Hungarian Battles
- 12 Jul 2011 9:00 AM
- current affairs
“Hungary is the bulwark of Christianity”, people said in the Middle Ages. A handful of enthusiastic castle defenders would often contain tens of thousands of Turkish invaders, preventing the Ottoman Porte from advancing towards Vienna, and the Red Crescent from casting its shadow on Europe.
Special Interview With Zoltán Géher, GM of Continental Hotel Budapest
- 26 Dec 2010 9:00 AM
- specials
His 30-year hotel career has included numerous premier properties, starting out with the Hotel Forum and the Hotel InterContinental. Subsequently he joined the Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal where his responsibilities included opening the hotel in 2002.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
Budapest Music Weeks Until 30 November
- 12 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- entertainment
"The story of the first festival of the Hungarian capital dates back to 1958 when Philharmonia organised a ”Bartók Festival” at the beginning of the autumn concert season. The list of participants was quite fascinating: Yehudi Menuhin, Svyatoslav Richter, the Juilliard String Quartet, János Ferencsik, Annie Fischer…
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).
'Design Week', Budapest, 1 - 10 October
- 1 Oct 2010 4:00 AM
- community & culture
"Design Terminal organises Budapest Design Week for the seventh time this year. The festival, present all around the Hungarian capital and targeting the profession and the wide public alike, takes place between 1st and 10th October. 2010 The series of events attracting close to 60 thousand visitors year after year was organised last year with the participation of 163 partners and offered 87, ...
How To Continue? Pécs After The Cultural Capital Programme
- 20 Sep 2010 12:10 PM
- community & culture
"The South Transdanubian Chamber of Architecture organises an international conference with the cooperation of renowned experts in Pécs to discuss such issues like filling of the cultural infrastructure built in the framework of the ECoC programmes with events, or continuing the sustainable and culture based urban development.
Xpat Review: Baby Blue Banana Comedy In Budapest
- 16 Sep 2010 7:35 AM
- entertainment
"BBB brought yet another huge stand-up comedy name to the stage this Tuesday night. The show was ably MC-ed by English comedian Dave Thompson who has himself headlined several times in Budapest. Dave did a good job warming up the crowd for headliner Jim Tavaré. I have found opening act Miklos Galla (famous in Hungary for translating Monty Python's Flying Circus into Hungarian) decidedly unfunny ...
Hungary's Sziget Festival: The Best Of The Biggest
- 12 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Sziget Festival won the Best European Major Festival title at the European Festival Awards. A joint effort of the festival’s organizing team and the votes of a devoted fan base in over 60 countries resulted in the best possible news to start up the year. The prize giving ceremony of the 2011 European Festival Awards took place on 11 January in Groningen, The Netherlands. Music industry ...
Famous Hungarian Battles
- 12 Jul 2011 9:00 AM
- current affairs
“Hungary is the bulwark of Christianity”, people said in the Middle Ages. A handful of enthusiastic castle defenders would often contain tens of thousands of Turkish invaders, preventing the Ottoman Porte from advancing towards Vienna, and the Red Crescent from casting its shadow on Europe.
Special Interview With Zoltán Géher, GM of Continental Hotel Budapest
- 26 Dec 2010 9:00 AM
- specials
His 30-year hotel career has included numerous premier properties, starting out with the Hotel Forum and the Hotel InterContinental. Subsequently he joined the Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal where his responsibilities included opening the hotel in 2002.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
Budapest Music Weeks Until 30 November
- 12 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- entertainment
"The story of the first festival of the Hungarian capital dates back to 1958 when Philharmonia organised a ”Bartók Festival” at the beginning of the autumn concert season. The list of participants was quite fascinating: Yehudi Menuhin, Svyatoslav Richter, the Juilliard String Quartet, János Ferencsik, Annie Fischer…
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).
'Design Week', Budapest, 1 - 10 October
- 1 Oct 2010 4:00 AM
- community & culture
"Design Terminal organises Budapest Design Week for the seventh time this year. The festival, present all around the Hungarian capital and targeting the profession and the wide public alike, takes place between 1st and 10th October. 2010 The series of events attracting close to 60 thousand visitors year after year was organised last year with the participation of 163 partners and offered 87, ...
How To Continue? Pécs After The Cultural Capital Programme
- 20 Sep 2010 12:10 PM
- community & culture
"The South Transdanubian Chamber of Architecture organises an international conference with the cooperation of renowned experts in Pécs to discuss such issues like filling of the cultural infrastructure built in the framework of the ECoC programmes with events, or continuing the sustainable and culture based urban development.
Xpat Review: Baby Blue Banana Comedy In Budapest
- 16 Sep 2010 7:35 AM
- entertainment
"BBB brought yet another huge stand-up comedy name to the stage this Tuesday night. The show was ably MC-ed by English comedian Dave Thompson who has himself headlined several times in Budapest. Dave did a good job warming up the crowd for headliner Jim Tavaré. I have found opening act Miklos Galla (famous in Hungary for translating Monty Python's Flying Circus into Hungarian) decidedly unfunny ...