Events in Budapest
Mozart!
The Mozart boom at the end of the 20th c., which discovered the composer’s remarkable, eccentric, unpredictable and rebellious personality, has produced several great works of art. The best of these are the film and the stage versions of Amadeus, and Levay’s Mozart!. The story is based on a completely novel approach to the hero, presenting him almost as a young man of today. He cannot tolerate his father’s dominance, the archbishops’ terror, the city’s intrigues, and the bourgeois plots, and while struggling with the external world, there is no peace inside him either as his genius is torturing him, nearly putting him in the stocks. It is an interesting, animated, very modern and very human story about a young man who cannot and will not adapt to the world’s boring schemes, and who is called Mozart!
Mood Concert
(Flag Square)
Daytime concerts in several locations within the Palace of Arts, with the cooperation of the students of the Academy of Music, with jazz programs beside classical music, and with the special appearance of countryside music colleges and conservatories once every month.
Evening with László Fassang, Bea Palya and Vincent Le Quang
László Fassang – organ, Bea Palya – singer, Vincent Le Quang – soprano saxophone
Bach organ works and transcriptions
Improvisations on Bach themes
Folk music from the Carpathian Basin
Variations on folk melodies
Own compositions
The joint evening of the three internationally acknowledged artists promises a unique encounter between classical music, jazz and traditional music. In the first half of the concert, Bach’s works will be heard in an unusual marriage between organ and saxophone, linked by free improvisations that connect the works; the second half is a “return to common roots”. Complex variations of sonorities unfold from the human voice, as the oldest and most simple “instrument”, from a simple melody – a folk melody. The path leads from the simple to the complex, from the ancient to modern, from woeful to joyous. Bea Palya is one of the most versatile members of the younger generation of folk musicians. In recent years, she has been realising her projects through her own Bea Palya Quintet. Currently she is working on a new album of Hungarian, Bulgarian and Gypsy folk melodies – but this time with her own texts. The CD – published by French label Naive – will also feature songs in both English and French.