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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: Hungarian Music: Repression and Renewal
Hungary has produced an astonishing number of composers including Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and György Kurtág. The central European nation is both an enigma and a source of fascination, caught ...
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: 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: 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: Hungarian orchestra cheers locked down Budapest with drive-by music
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's MAV Symphony Orchestra is taking its music to the streets of Budapest to lift the spirits of residents quarantined in their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, and it ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music Nears Completion
The House of Hungarian Music is taking shape within Budapest's City Park. With the structure and the design's distinctive roof completed, construction work is underway for the interior of the music ...
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 ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: House of Music Hungary
Key Highlight: Even if you don't consider yourself much of an audiophile, you'll likely be drawn to the House of Music for its eye-catching building design. The House of Music is nestled in the heart ...
News Hungary » Budapest » Music: MTV’s Europe Music Awards honor campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in ceremony in Hungary
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran won best artist and best song for “Bad Habits,” while K-pop stars BTS snatched four awards at MTV’s Europe Music Awards, which returned as an in-person event after ...