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Arts & Culture|14/02/2011Space physicist with double-bass
It’s easier to be successful if somebody plays ”almost folk” music since few people stick to the authentic folk sound, claims Dániel Hamar, the founding member and double-bass player of the Muzsikás Ensemble. He says Hungarian folk music is very powerful and it even has the power to heal.
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Arts & Culture|14/02/2011A cadence for the ailing land
When in January 2006 Austria took over the EU’s rotating presidency, the organisers were only too happy that the dates of two other, significant commemorations also fell in this period.
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Arts & Culture|14/02/2011
Classical moderns
The centenary exhibition of The Eight (Nyolcak) art group is not only a worthy closure of the Pécs - European Capital of Culture programme but is also the most important event of its so-called ‘wind down’ year, i.e. 2011.
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Arts & Culture|25/01/2011
Finger practice
After berating everybody as racists, anti-Roma, xenophobes and reactionary nationalists, Schiff, a son of Hungary who left for Florence and now holds British citizenship, asked in his readers’ letter if Hungary was ready or worthy of filling the post of revolving European presidency for six months.
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Arts & Culture|25/01/2011
“If I stop, I’ll rust”
In fifty-two years he has given 3,500 performances. He has won the Grammy Award nine times and there have been times when the audience gave him ninety-five encores. - Interview with Plácido Domingo.
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Arts & Culture|13/12/2010Waiting for Superman
Although they are not waiting for God but merely for Superman, Americans need someone to come and save a beleaguered and damaged public education system.
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Arts & Culture|03/12/2010English treasure hunters
An exhibition titled Treasures from Budapest will run in London through 12 December thanks to the works loaned by the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery.
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Arts & Culture|03/12/2010
Hungarian photographer excels at international competition
Bence Máté, a wildlife photographer, succeeded in catching an astonishingly beautiful moment with his camera and his photo won him first prize in the wildlife photograph category in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
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Arts & Culture|05/11/2010
Treasures from Budapest in London
The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery are exhibiting at one of the most important exhibition venues in the world: the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Arts & Culture|28/10/2010
Half a brick in the wall
In recent weeks it has been confirmed that Pink Floyd’s The Wall will be coming to Budapest next summer, even though the band itself split up over ten years ago. The former leader of the group, Roger Waters, has placed his music in the present day context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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