Solo bagpipers used to play these tunes for village dances but they were gradually replaced by the new Gypsy orchestras, and the medieval-style drone accompaniment gave way to the central European harmony of the string bands. Just as bagpipes mean Scotland, so Gypsy bands mean Hungary in the popular imagination. When nationalist composers like Liszt composed their Hungarian Dances and Rhapsodies in the latter part of the nineteenth century they took as their models the Magyar Nota music of the urban Gypsy orchestras much as you can hear it in Budapest restaurants today. Most of this repertoire, often showy and sickly sweet, was composed in the nineteenth century.
A more fixed event, with a guarantee of music-making, is Busjrs Carnival in Mohcs at the beginning of March. The music played in Mohcs is basically Serbian and Croatian. The celebrated Bogyiszl orchestra was until recently the best in the region but is, alas, no longer active.
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Other top musicians to watch out for include fiddler Csaba krs and his ensemble, and the Tkrs, Tka and Kalamajka groups who specialize in Hungarian and Transylvanian repertoire. Other notable singers are Kati Szvork, Beta Palya and Andrs Berecz. Muzsiks have also introduced the Moldavian singer Mria Petrs.
Hungarian pop music has a presence in the lives of every generation. The temporary exhibition opening at the House of Music on 22 January 2023 promises a trip through time to an era that is certainly familiar to many, perhaps nostalgic, but definitely unmissable.
Music became important to me quite late. Until the age of 14 it played only a marginal role in my life: As a child, my parents took me to classical concerts and operas, but I do not remember them influencing my life (on a deeper level, of course, they could have). I also did not really have my own taste in pop music, like some of my friends. The defining moment came on my fourteenth birthday: my grandmother, who had been born the same day as me 49 years earlier and played the piano beautifully, taught me a little four-hand piano piece to play for the family. If I were religious, I would say it was a revelation. From then on, music became extremely important to me. I started learning the piano, formed rock groups in high school, and began to absorb all kinds of music as a listener, from classical to pop to jazz. It was too late for me to become a professional musician (to have the right technique, you have to start at the age of 10 at the latest), but I knew I had to stay as close to music as possible, so I became a musicologist.
Besides my year in Paris, the greatest professional and personal experience of my life was the year I spent with my family at Bard College in Upstate New York. The Hungarian educational system is quite different from the American one, so the knowledge, experience and expectations of American students are also different from their Hungarian counterparts. For me, it was a life-changing experience. Hungarian professors and students follow the German model, which they inherited from the 19th century: for them, knowledge has something to do with the amount of information you have in your head. You have to acquire a lot of data about the world, so Hungarian students know a lot more information. They know much more about America than an American student knows about Hungary (of course, this has to do with the importance and the real and metaphorical size of the two countries). But on the other hand, this data-based knowledge is not really useful. Hungarian students can not really argue, they are afraid to ask questions because they fear being ignorant. For the American student, knowledge has nothing to do with data: it's about skills. I loved at Bard College how brave they were to ask questions about topics they knew virtually nothing about. Their argumentative skills were also amazing. The ideal for me is somewhere between the two extremes, a little closer to the American model. It's great if you know a lot of data, but if you can not express yourself, if you can not start or participate in a conversation, then that knowledge is useless. To your other question, the students at Bard knew something about Hungarian culture, but in that respect, Bard College is a special place because, thanks to the late Lszl Bit, an alumnus and patron of the institution, quite a few Hungarian students study music there, so Hungarian culture is more present there than in other colleges in the United States.
Hungarian classical music was born in the 19th century, but its great period is the 20th century. We have some composers like Bla Bartk, Zoltn Kodly, Gyrgy Ligeti and Gyrgy Kurtg, who are considered the greatest among the greatest composers. In the world of classical music, Hungary is a much more important country than in any other field. It is difficult to say in a few words what makes Hungarian music so special, but I think it is three things: its relationship to the great classical tradition, its innovative spirit, and the way our beautiful and very special folk music is used in it. Using Bartk as an example, we can see what I mean: As a pianist, he was a great interpreter of the music of classical masters like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others, but as a composer, he was one of the most innovative spirits of his time. But this innovation was not one hundred percent new: it was based on music going back hundreds if not thousands of years, music preserved by peasants in the countryside. Old and new were thus blended into a new quality. Hungarian music is a musical universe where things of different origins can live together without harming each other, so it represents an ideal world. Something we should try to imitate in our daily life.
The vision for the project is to bring the experience of music to life through the interaction of nature, sound and light. Situated in Budapest, Hungary, which is a historic centre of music in Europe for both classical music repertoire and Hungarian folk traditions, the House will host a range of live music from classical to folk, pop to jazz, alongside exhibitions and education and learning programmes designed to create opportunities for anyone to play and experience music.
"Music making is at the heart of human experience. The House is a one-of-a-kind institution created to introduce the beauty of sound and music, alongside the important role it plays in every aspect of our life."
The layout of the House is set across three distinctive levels reflecting the three movements of a musical score and interweaving nature and music. The subterranean level will provide a space for permanent and temporary exhibitions and a unique sound dome, the park level will be home to the glass-walled concert hall and open-air stage and the top level will be dedicated to educational spaces.
The glass-walled concert hall has a capacity of 320 seats and is equipped with a sinkable stage and suitable for musical experimentation. Undertaken by Japanese firm Nagata Acoustics, known for the acoustic design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, and Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Nagata and Sou Fujimoto navigated the challenges of this unique glass design by creating a zigzag-shaped wall that allows incoming sound to reverberate and disperse from the glass indirectly, producing homogeneous sound.
With the House of Music Hungary, Sou Fujimoto Architects created a unique cultural centre in Budapest City Park, bringing together music, architecture and nature. Underneath an almost circular, organically corrugated roof, there is a facade will all-round glazing that stands twelve metres tall in some places. The Japanese architects chose the Janisol SG steel profile system (object solution) from Jansen for the entrance area. The smooth interplay of the door leaf, outer frame and fitting parts ensures that the emergency exit doors with panic locks function reliably.
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Actually Hungarian folk music and Gypsy (Roma) music are largely different things, as is Klezmer music. The Roma and the Jews have been important presences in Hungary for centuries and their cultures and the Hungarian culture have had powerful impact on one another, so their traditional musical cultures have intertwined, but you'll find that the remain very distinct.
Folk (npzene) is quite different from gypsy music (Roma / cigany) though the latter gets associated with Hungary, and has an evolved / corrupted form in "Magyar nta" and and the gypsy bands who play and often annoy in restaurants.
Real Roma music is wonderful (try Kalyi Jag, Ando Drom, Mitsou or Esma Redzepova). Hungarian traditional music is represented popularly by bands like Msicas and singers like Mrta Sebestyn and Bea Palya. Dig deeper and you find Transylvanian, Carpathian and Szerb roots and groups. Magyar nta is like French chanson, a beautiful art dying with ageing audience.
The Fono is a centre for traditional Hungarian folk music, best folk CD shop in Budapest. Its rather out of the way being Buda side and far south, but close to a tram stop. Fono hosts weekly events, regular tnchz and featured bands . e24fc04721
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