2,180 result(s) for music festival
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 ...
Tamás Vásáry & Henriett Tunyogi, Festival Theatre, 23 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"In recent years, Henriett Tunyogi and Tamás Vásáry have combined the most refined forms of music to create a very special concert format based on the mutual inspiration of the various genres. These productions exploring the mystical power of breaking through boundaries frequently elevates the audience to the heights of philosophical reflection even as it draws them into uncharted mystical ...
Invitation: 'Muses On Theatre Square', Budapest History Museum Until 2 September
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The Pest German Theatre opened on what is now Vörösmarty Square on 9 February 1812, with two plays by Kotzebue, for which the music was composed by Beethoven. The idea for the establishment of the theatre arose during the reign of Josef II, as Pest was gaining in importance and the growing bourgeoisie had an increasing demand for culture.
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 ...
Invitation: 120 Years Of The Jazz Drum, Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 25 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The collection, which is unique in the world, shows the development of jazz and classical percussion instruments from 1900 to the present. Since its establishment in 1992 the museum had numerous professional and amateur visitors, who got an insight into the wonderful world of percussion instruments through exhibitions and presentations that focus on the experience of guests. The museum from ...
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.
New Names In The Line-Up Shine Upon Hegyalja Festival In Hungary
- 12 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"New names snapped out from the ice of winter: the 'Lucky 13' Borsodi Hegyalja Festival will feature Grammy-winner Everlast as well as the Newport-based alternative ragga-metal band Skindred, both to bring their new albums to the fans. Festival goers will be spelled by dark electronic rhythms of Black Sun Empire, and Evil Nine will represent the hip-hop party line at the summer event. Raw and ...
Los Vivancos - Extreme Flamenco Fusion Show, Margaret Island Budpaest, 15 -16 June
- 8 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The Seven Virtuoso Brothers having toured seventy cities of thirty countries with their so called extreme flamenco fusion show and now they’re about to step on stage at Margaret Island, first time in Hungary. Their music and dance show is the unique mix of flamenco, ballet, jazz, latin, hip-hop, martial arts and street dance. It is twenty-first century flamenco in its purest essence, mixed with ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tamás Vásáry & Henriett Tunyogi, Festival Theatre, 23 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"In recent years, Henriett Tunyogi and Tamás Vásáry have combined the most refined forms of music to create a very special concert format based on the mutual inspiration of the various genres. These productions exploring the mystical power of breaking through boundaries frequently elevates the audience to the heights of philosophical reflection even as it draws them into uncharted mystical ...
Invitation: 'Muses On Theatre Square', Budapest History Museum Until 2 September
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The Pest German Theatre opened on what is now Vörösmarty Square on 9 February 1812, with two plays by Kotzebue, for which the music was composed by Beethoven. The idea for the establishment of the theatre arose during the reign of Josef II, as Pest was gaining in importance and the growing bourgeoisie had an increasing demand for culture.
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 ...
Invitation: 120 Years Of The Jazz Drum, Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 25 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The collection, which is unique in the world, shows the development of jazz and classical percussion instruments from 1900 to the present. Since its establishment in 1992 the museum had numerous professional and amateur visitors, who got an insight into the wonderful world of percussion instruments through exhibitions and presentations that focus on the experience of guests. The museum from ...
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.
New Names In The Line-Up Shine Upon Hegyalja Festival In Hungary
- 12 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"New names snapped out from the ice of winter: the 'Lucky 13' Borsodi Hegyalja Festival will feature Grammy-winner Everlast as well as the Newport-based alternative ragga-metal band Skindred, both to bring their new albums to the fans. Festival goers will be spelled by dark electronic rhythms of Black Sun Empire, and Evil Nine will represent the hip-hop party line at the summer event. Raw and ...
Los Vivancos - Extreme Flamenco Fusion Show, Margaret Island Budpaest, 15 -16 June
- 8 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The Seven Virtuoso Brothers having toured seventy cities of thirty countries with their so called extreme flamenco fusion show and now they’re about to step on stage at Margaret Island, first time in Hungary. Their music and dance show is the unique mix of flamenco, ballet, jazz, latin, hip-hop, martial arts and street dance. It is twenty-first century flamenco in its purest essence, mixed with ...
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 ...