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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html