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When Beethoven finished his monumental Ninth Symphony with a final movement featuring chorus and a quartet of solo singers, he did something unprecedented in the history of the symphony. Till then, the symphony as a genre had been a purely instrumental. It expressed abstract feelings at best, but not specific content. By adding a sung text to his symphony in this case Schillers Ode to Joy Beethoven began to blur the boundaries between symphony and oratorio, and made his last symphony express a particular idea: the Brotherhood of Humanity. more » Budapest's Papp László Aréna will host the Battle of Legends between Oct 9 and 12. more »"The launch of the Middle East team is the first result of the new strategy." more »|
"Thanks to rising energy prices, new subsidies on insulation, citizens
attitudes have started to change." more »Hungarian architect, and designer of the suspended Government Quarter project Péter Janesch was awarded the grand prize of the Holcim Awards in Madrid last week. more »In between the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, Orsolya Tokaji-Nagy looks into the revival of Budapest's Jewish communities. She finds that, while anti semitism is still a big deal, being Jewish in Budapest can actually be fun, too. more »Political scientist Orsolya Tokaji-Nagy mulls over whether it was fair from civil organizations to ask the premier to stay away from their "Tarka Magyar" peace rally. more »English language bookstore owner, environmental activist and Hungarian folk dance enthusiast Treehugger Dan talks to us about Budapest. more »
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