Looking back on the Liszt Year - in a nutshell
In 2011 hundreds of concerts, several exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
Chocolate concert with Christmas-melodies
The Chocolate Concert on 18 December at Millenaris features the Saint Ephraim Male Choir and the students of the Budapest Singing School who will prepare with well-known Christmas-melodies for this special occasion. Of course, Győző Lukácsházi will also be there to encourage the children and their parents to sing together.
In the finish of the Liszt Year
Nearly 5000 musicians have performed at about 200 concerts in more than 20 countries and, adding up the concert programmes, there has been 60 minutes of Liszt music every day in the past almost one year around the world, including faraway continents as well – this is the evaluation of the bicentennial Liszt Year in numbers. At the closing press event, the coordinator of the international events, Hungarofest announced that they are planning to continue the Liszt programmes in 2012.
Monika Balatoni: ”Liszt’s mother tongue was Hungarian music”
As we are getting close to the end of year 2011, which also means the end of the Liszt Year, creative director of Hungarofest, Monika Balatoni sums up the bicentennial celebrations, spanning across borders with hundreds of programmes. Claudia Hegedüs asks her.
Chocolate concert with Bori Ruttkai - Gallery
Bori Ruttkai and the Hébe-Hóba Band gave a memorable concert on the 11 December in the Allee shopping mall. Check out our pictures and get the feeling of this exciting event!
Chocolate concert in the Allee with Bori Ruttkai!
On 11 December from 3 p.m. Bori Ruttkai and the Hébe-Hóba Band will be entertaining the youngest music lovers and their parents in the Allee shopping mall. The regular Chocolate concert-goers already know what to expect on Sunday afternoon: music and games, chocolate for the bravest ones, storybooks, beanbags, face-painting – in three words: fun, fun, fun!
Chocolate Concert with Tamás Érdi and the Kölöknet talents - gallery
The latest interactive concert of the Chocolate series, organised twice a month, featured Tamás Érdi, Prima Primissima-awarded pianist and the winners of the Kölöknet talent contest. Music, games and fables all in the same place - check out our pictures of this exciting event of 20 November at Millenáris!
What did Liszt think about literature and fine arts?
The Institution for Musicology, the Liszt Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organised an international interdisciplinary conference between 18 and 20 November. The conference revealed how Liszt worked with the inspiration he gained from other art forms: he usually re-worked it into stories and transformed the emotional settings of these stories into music.
Mihály Szegedy-Maszák: ”The Liszt oeuvre is many-sided"
Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, professor of comparative literature and cultural science, is the member of the programme committee and also distinguished lecturer of the ”Liszt and the Arts” conference, which takes place between 18 and 21 November. We asked the music-lover academic about the conference syllabus and, naturally, about Liszt.
Liszt and the Arts
A month after the opening event of the Liszt and Art exhibition, an International Interdisciplinary Conference is organised by the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre and Liszt Academy of Music between 18 and 20 November.
