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'Gallant Frenchmen', Mupa, 2 March
- 29 Feb 2016 4:10 AM
- community & culture
After two successful tragédies en musique, Jean-Philippe Rameau, the reformer of French grand opera, introduced an opéra-ballet entitled Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies). His interest had been piqued by the chief of an American Indian tribe and his five companions, who had presented their own dances at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Documentary Film: György Kurtág 90, Mupa Budapest, 20 February
- 17 Feb 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
"Our whole life is nothing more than a singular pilgrimage to rediscover the lost child within us,” György Kurtág once said. The ambivalent fascination, the complete openness and the fiery adoration that one or other figure from music history was able to inspire in the composer suggest that he was successfully reunited with the child in question.
Győr Ballet: Balance, Mupa Budapest, 11 February
- 8 Feb 2016 4:02 AM
- community & culture
'When I woke up in the morning, I didn't know what part of the world I was in,' said Cayetano Soto, describing his general mental state while he was creating this piece. The choreographer regards his works as a kind of personal act of communication aimed at relating, through dance, the deepest reaches of his psyche.
Grand Chinese New Year Concert, Mupa Budapest, 4 February
- 4 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
The 2016 programme for Müpa Budapest's now customary and increasingly popular Chinese New Year concerts provides an introduction to different regions of the enormous country, and the traditional music of their various ethnic groups played on traditional instruments that are still used to this day, while also illustrating the ever closer points of contact between Chinese and Western music.
Nógrád Dance Ensemble: Palóc Madonnas, Mupa Budapest, 6 February
- 2 Feb 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Life in a peasant society was strictly regulated, and its members lived out their days according to a defined system of values. Their lives revolved around agricultural work, religion, holidays, and the vicissitudes of human existence.
Groove & Voice Trio, Mupa Budapest, 5 February
- 1 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- entertainment
Singer-researcher Irén Lovász has based her record series Healing Voices on the therapeutic power of archaic Hungarian folk songs. This Soundscape concert came into being as a re-conception of the album Inner Voice.
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mupa Budapest, 3 February
- 1 Feb 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Scarcely a year after the work's world première in Prague, János ('Hans') Richter - a friend of Dvořák's and one of the most dedicated proponents of his works - placed the Symphony No. 8 on the Vienna Philharmonic's concert programme.
Romanticism Day & Night, Mupa Budapest, 31 January
- 21 Jan 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday 31 January, Müpa and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be presenting their ninth music Marathon; the concerts start early and will fill Müpa’s concert halls non-stop into the evening. For the first time, the Marathon will feature not one but two composers: the great romantics, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
'Gallant Frenchmen', Mupa, 2 March
- 29 Feb 2016 4:10 AM
- community & culture
After two successful tragédies en musique, Jean-Philippe Rameau, the reformer of French grand opera, introduced an opéra-ballet entitled Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies). His interest had been piqued by the chief of an American Indian tribe and his five companions, who had presented their own dances at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Documentary Film: György Kurtág 90, Mupa Budapest, 20 February
- 17 Feb 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
"Our whole life is nothing more than a singular pilgrimage to rediscover the lost child within us,” György Kurtág once said. The ambivalent fascination, the complete openness and the fiery adoration that one or other figure from music history was able to inspire in the composer suggest that he was successfully reunited with the child in question.
Győr Ballet: Balance, Mupa Budapest, 11 February
- 8 Feb 2016 4:02 AM
- community & culture
'When I woke up in the morning, I didn't know what part of the world I was in,' said Cayetano Soto, describing his general mental state while he was creating this piece. The choreographer regards his works as a kind of personal act of communication aimed at relating, through dance, the deepest reaches of his psyche.
Grand Chinese New Year Concert, Mupa Budapest, 4 February
- 4 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
The 2016 programme for Müpa Budapest's now customary and increasingly popular Chinese New Year concerts provides an introduction to different regions of the enormous country, and the traditional music of their various ethnic groups played on traditional instruments that are still used to this day, while also illustrating the ever closer points of contact between Chinese and Western music.
Nógrád Dance Ensemble: Palóc Madonnas, Mupa Budapest, 6 February
- 2 Feb 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Life in a peasant society was strictly regulated, and its members lived out their days according to a defined system of values. Their lives revolved around agricultural work, religion, holidays, and the vicissitudes of human existence.
Groove & Voice Trio, Mupa Budapest, 5 February
- 1 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- entertainment
Singer-researcher Irén Lovász has based her record series Healing Voices on the therapeutic power of archaic Hungarian folk songs. This Soundscape concert came into being as a re-conception of the album Inner Voice.
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mupa Budapest, 3 February
- 1 Feb 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Scarcely a year after the work's world première in Prague, János ('Hans') Richter - a friend of Dvořák's and one of the most dedicated proponents of his works - placed the Symphony No. 8 on the Vienna Philharmonic's concert programme.
Romanticism Day & Night, Mupa Budapest, 31 January
- 21 Jan 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday 31 January, Müpa and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be presenting their ninth music Marathon; the concerts start early and will fill Müpa’s concert halls non-stop into the evening. For the first time, the Marathon will feature not one but two composers: the great romantics, Mendelssohn and Schumann.