The festival?s organisers, together with Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky and deputy mayor János Schiffer, recently outlined the festival?s rich programme at a press conference.
For lovers of contemporary music, Klangforum Wien promises an eight-hour musical feast on October 14. During the marathon concert, listeners are invited to recline on comfortable mats, enjoy a bit of gourmet nourishment and take a tipple of wine while listening to selections of music from Mahler to Morton Feldman.
On October 12, Michael Denhoff, the German composer and cellist, will perform his own works as well as those of the great Hungarian composer György Kurtág. The concert will serve as an homage to Kurtág as well as demonstrate the links or ?messages? between the two composers.
The amazing Canadian trombonist Tom Walsh will play on October 7 together with two of the Hungarian jazz scene?s biggest artists, Mátyás Szandai on double bass and Elemér Balázs on drums, as well as the Canadian Richard Underhill on alto saxophone.
The sensational pianist Árpád Oláh Tzumó and the singer Felicia Flora K will play material from their album recently recorded in New York at a concert on October 18.
For theatre lovers, Goethe?s Faust will be performed by the Deutsches Theater Berlin directed by Michael Thalheimer to the music of Deep Purple on October 19 and 20.
Balázs Zoltán?s Maladype Theater will perform ?Acropolis?, a play in verse by Wyspianski on October 18 and 19.
Starting October 6 and lasting for a week, artists will take over empty store fronts and shop windows along the capital?s ring road during the Boulevard Festival.
On the same day, an exhibition of university students? art, entitled ?Mania?, will open at the Kogart House.
On October 9, the newest generation of Hungarian composers will show their talents together with the new volume of poetry by János Térey.
To see the full programme of the festival visit www.bof.hu
