The Bach for Everyone Festival will be held again this year: from March 16, the music of the composer's genius will be played at one hundred and fifty free concerts in sixty towns of the Carpathian Basin.
"Due to the epidemic, the concerts of the Bach for Everyone Festival took place mostly online in the last two years, and they still reached 200,000 people in 2021. This year, we can be the first major festival that takes place in front of a live audience," said László Zalán Kovács, tuba artist and festival director, at the press conference held at the Erkel Theater on Tuesday.
The festival runs until the end of the year, the main period lasts until March 31. At the opening concert on March 16, the students of the Béla Bartók Faculty of Music of the University of Miskolc will play, on the 20th there will be an open-air choral singing in the Buda Castle, here Ádám Medveczky conducts the National Choir, accompanied by the Szolnok Air Force Band.
On March 21, Bach's 337th birthday, there will be a concert at the ORFK Police Administration Center, on the 27th at the Esterházy Castle in Tata, and on the 29th at the Gödöllő Royal Castle. The MOMKult, the House of Traditions, and the Millennium House will be the locations in the capital, while the Pannonhalm and Tihany abbeys or the Reformed church in Debrecen will be in the countryside.
One third of the programs will be in settlements across the border, including Kassa, Komárom, Nagyvárad, Kézdivásárhely, but there will also be concerts in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria . Our organized Transcarpathian programs had to be canceled due to the war, but we will replace them as soon as possible. This year, employees of the Hungarian Children's Rescue Foundation are collecting for charity at the festival locations, but donations can also be made on the festival's website. "Helping children is now particularly important from the point of view of the families who came here from Ukraine before the war," emphasized the festival director.
Among the performers will be, among others, Ádám Medveczky, Endre Hegedűs, Katalin Pitti, Ditta Rohmann, the choir and orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera House, the National Choir, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the chamber ensembles of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra. As mentioned, the festival will feature both baroque wind instruments and modern instruments, in Aszód you can dress up a two-meter Bach puppet, in Szolnok there will be a literary performance, and in Miskolc there will be a musical costume theater.
Source: MTI
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