Two durable choreographies from the Montreal company that has made several visits to Budapest. The constant factors: the drive and the rhythm, the choreographer, Marie Chouinard and the modern classics of music history. The variables: the dancers and the location.
This year’s Újbuda Jazz Festival features one of the emblems and leading figures in Hungarian jazz: multitalented jazz drummer Imre Kőszegi (66) takes to the stage of the Fonó Buda Music House with his trio also comprising two young talented musicians, Imre Rozsnyai on piano and György Orbán on bass.
Jon Lord spent his youth in one of the most important bands in rock history, Deep Purple, renowned for the smash hit Smoke on the Water. The attraction to classical music can be traced right from the earliest days of his career.
The latest major production of ethnic Hungarian, Grammy-winning composer Sylvester Lévay and lyricist Michael Kunze (the creative force behind the hit musicals Elisabeth and Mozart!) arrives at the Budapest Operetta Theatre after tours in Vienna, Japan and Helsinki!
The core topic of this evening of dance, the novel published by Nikos Kazantzakis in 1946, is about passion and suffering, joy and bitterness. But the positive trumps every sorrow; all troubles and pains are swept away.
Levon Malkhasyan... the alpha and omega of Armenian jazz, its pioneer and its godfather. His performance style blends lyrical improvisation, huge sweeping solos and a rich mix of folk and blues elements.
He was the founder of the Yerevan International Jazz Festival in 1998.
Both the works and the experimentation of György Kepes (1906−2001) and the Czech-born artist Frank Malina (1912−1981) have – in their method of combining science and art – overtones of the universal approach of Renaissance man, thereby continuing an established line in art history.
