Featuring:
Bartók
Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71, BB 79 – Old Dance Tunes: No. 1: Allegro (Arra gyere, amőre én...) (‘Come over here with me...’)
Дeva
777
Folk songs set to piano accompaniment. Is there anything strange about that? Not at all. Folk music set to pop accompaniment. Is there anything strange about that? Well... but why would there be? What is the difference between Béla Bartók creating arrangements of folk songs for the piano, the instrument most typically used in classical music, and Dorina Takács (or Дeva) setting folk songs to electronic pop music accompaniment? This is one of the things the next concert in the Musical Dissection series is about (spoiler: while there is a difference in terms of music, there is none in theory. In both cases the creators carefully and lovingly transfer the folk song from its original environment into another musical universe).
The Musical Dissection programme series explores the conduits between what we call classical music and the ‘light’ pop music favoured mostly by young people today. This concert will reveal, for example, the many ways in which folk songs were a source of inspiration for Béla Bartók, along with the many forms he reworked these simple melodies into and transformed into the basic material for art music. Дeva (Dorina Takács), one of the best-known and most exciting figures in the Hungarian electronic music scene, developed one such melody in her song 777, and in the second half of the concert, not only will we get to listen to it live, we will also disassemble it on the spot in order to to see how much differently folk songs are treated in 2023 than they were in Bartók’s time.
The event will be followed by a free activity session on Festival Theatre entitled Reverberation for groups holding tickets to the performance.
Age: 12-18 year
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
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