The Kossuth Prize-winning singer and songwriter Tamás Cseh died after a long illness in August. He was 66.
The programme started with a film of Cseh singing his first song co-written with Géza Bereményi at the beginning of the 70s. Afterward, Bereményi - who could not participate at the event in person - recalled on film how he first met Cseh and how wonderfully easy their first song was born in the kitchen of the flat they shared.
The programme continued with performances of Cseh songs by different artists and was bound together by readings of parts of interviews with Cseh by the Bárka Theatre's founder and director László Bérczes.
Ad Libitum, formerly the Huszonötödik Színház group, Cseh's first music group, was the first to perform, with János Novák, the director of the Kolibri Theatre in Budapest. The only member missing from the formation was István Márta, who is in Uruguay.
Other performers who participated at the event were András Lovasi, the frontman of Kispál és a Borz, one of Hungary's best known alternative acts; Mihály Víg, the founder of the pop group Balaton and a soundtrack writer for the director Béla Tarr; the prima donna of the Hungarian stage Mari Törőcsik; the queen of Hungarian folk music Márta Sebestyén; jazz great Mihály Dresch, blues legend Hobó; and Cseh's son András.
Author: sisso / Photo: Bárka Theatre / Gábor Garamvári
