Your daily impressions from Hungary
In a co-operation with the www.budapestdailyphoto.com site, starting from today, there will be a new Budapest Quiz. This year, the team of www.budapestdailyphoto.com will offer to the winner a bottle of Tokaji Wine and the www.hungarystartshere.com portal offers one of their Hungary guide books in English.
See the question of the 4th week here.
See the question of the 4th week here.
Articles
The father of smooth jazz, the last year Grammy-award
nominated composer and pianist with his legendary band on the Ship.
Line up:Jeff Lorber - Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes, SynthDennis Bradford - DrumsTerry Layne - Reeds & FluteLester McFarland - Electric BassRon Young - Congas & PercussionDanny Wilson - Electric BassKenny Gorelick - Flute, Tenor & Soprano Saxes
One of the greatest and funniest reed bands of the world
that melts together the New Orleans traditions with pop in a way that you will
cry in laughter from.
All can be traced back to the time when clubs were still
clubs, pants were still made of satin and hairstyles were still super-colossal.
János Kass is a graphic artist. The exhibition presents his
works ranging from children’s books and textbooks to illustrations of Hamlet and the Cantata Profana
The exhibition does not follow a chronological order but the earliest
illustrated book was published in 1952, while the latest are textbooks from 2006.
Concert of the well-known Hungarian rock-singer in Debrecen
Tickets: 2700 Ft, 3400 Ft.
The band’s uniqueness stands in the combination of saxophone
and vocals that yield an unusual and interesting sound in the modern jazz.
The Pluto Fusion Collection band plays popular jazz-rock
through songs and adaptations of their own. József (Plutó) Horváth - bass guitar, László Nagy – guitar, Dezső
Balogh – piano and József Bordás – drums are talented and well-known musicians
whose only purpose have always been to entertain their listeners with great
music.
Renaissance exhibition of museums for technological
history at the Transport Museum from September 18th, 2008 to January 21st, 2009
The exhibition created as a joint effort of the leading
Hungarian museums for technology, and opening on September 18th, 2008 at the
Transport Museum, focuses on the technical accomplishments and discoveries of
the renaissance age.
The exhibition of the Budapest City Archives presents a
selection of the most comprehensive national architectural legacy, focusing on
the representative style of the 2nd half of the 19th century with the
Neo-Renaissance plans of Miklós Ybl (Main Custom House, Opera, palaces behind
the National Museum: Festetics-Palace, Károlyi Palace).
2008 is the Year of Renaissance in Hungary. In the
historical background of the Year of Renaissance - 2008 is the 550th
anniversary of Matthias Corvinus (one of the most important Hungarian kings)
coming to the throne of Hungary.
