Hungarians and music?!  What will they think of next?  -
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/1023

   Both Gyorgy Kurtag and Peter Eotvos will be in New York
   this month as part of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture's
   Hungarian Culture Year ("Extremely Hungary") [aaargh...].
   Carnegie Hall presents two weeks of folk, symphonic, and
   new music, as well as educational programs performed by
   today's most noted Hungarian musicians. Featured highlights
   of the festival will be three concerts of music by two of
   Hungary's greatest living composers.

On January 29
<http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_11268.html?selecteddate=01292009>
Peter Eotvos will lead Ensemble ACJW in a portrait concert of his music.
On the program will be the U.S. premiere performance of /Octet Plus/
(2008) for soprano and wind instruments, featuring a rare U.S.
performance by soprano Barbara Hannigan.

The music of Gyorgy Kurtag will be at the center of the Hungary Festival
performances. His /Songs to Poems by Anna Akhmatova,/ Op. 41 will
receive its world premiere on January 31
<http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_11706.html>
by the UMZE ensemble under the baton of Peter Eotvos. On February 1
<http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_11390.html?selecteddate=02012009>,
in an unprecedented event for New York City,  Kurtag and his wife, Marta
Kurtag, will perform a full recital of transcriptions and selections
from /Jatekok/, Kurtag's remarkable series of teaching pieces for piano.>>

Also check out http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/1022 - "If Alma
Mahler Had Twittered" - hilarious!

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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