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The Budapest Festival Orchestra is opening its new season with a focus on accessibility, from its free Heroes’ Square concert and new Children’s Choir to Iván Fischer’s staging of Mozart’s The Magic ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Budapest Music Center: A cultural confluence at the heart of Hungary
The most important thing for us at BMC records is that the music be authentic. Music that is real and makes you believe the artist’s intentions are pure. —György Wallner, responsible for international ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Hungary music festival basks in post-Orban freedom
Drifting between concert stages and chilling on hammocks, revellers partied in Hungary this year at one of Europe's largest outdoor festivals, with organisers saying they no longer felt "headwinds" ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Music: Birthday in Budapest
In 1923, it had been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Music stops: Energy costs close Hungary theaters for winter
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A theater in Hungary’s capital will sit through a cold and quiet winter after its managers chose to shut it down rather than pay skyrocketing utility prices that are putting a ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars
At City Park in Budapest, a building project has come to exemplify the politics of Viktor Orban, the country’s far-right prime minister. By Benjamin Novak BUDAPEST — A polarizing project by the ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Hungarian orchestra conductor invents music-enhancing face mask
BUDAPEST, Sept 12 (Reuters) - When he saw a sea of face masks around Budapest, Hungarian orchestra conductor Ivan Fischer had an idea; turn an unpopular pandemic necessity into a tool of music ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans
The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Making Turkish music in Hungary: Can this be a ‘Nasip Kısmet’ moment?
Nasip Kısmet is a term used by Turkish people to describe the idea that “what is meant to happen will happen,” or “destiny.” This is the term a group of Turkish-Hungarian musicians in Budapest chose ...