Classical & Jazz: The Love Affair
Jazz
Classical & Jazz: The Love Affair
This programme is held in Hungarian.
"...the only European musical work of its time, which is not just a flirt but a real love affair with jazz" – Leonard Bernstein praised Darius Milhaud's 1923 work The Creation of the World with these words, which indeed was among the first to fuse this then-new style with classical music. The concert of the Tálas Áron Trio (Tálas Áron – piano, Tóth István – double bass, Csízi László – drums) and the Budapest Sound Collective orchestra led by Gergely Dubóczky explores this very affair: how Afro-American rhythm and melody met European musical tradition, creating some of the twentieth century's defining masterpieces. Alongside Milhaud's ballet music, Igor Stravinsky's miniature concerto, the Ebony Concerto, and perhaps the most popular representative of the meeting of classical music and jazz, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, will be performed. The Trio and the jazz-savvy members of the orchestra will complete the concert with improvisations, free musical associations, thus creating a new bridge between the two musical worlds.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
