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Budapest Jewish Summer Festival 2011

Jewish Summer Festival 27 August - 5 September 2011 Hungary Budapest


Program

August 27, 2011 (Saturday)
Late Night Concert at the Dohany Street Synagogue
Dohány street Synagogue 22:00
Participating: The Adler Trio (Israel) , Katica Illényi violinist and the Cseke Quartet

August 28, 2011 (Sunday)
Oh, bloody life
Uránia Movie Theatre 19:00
Operetta evening of the Vác Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Pál Farkas
The Metropolitan Opera Brass of New York
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
Concert of the New York Metropolitan Opera's Brass Orchestra

August 29, 2011 (Monday)
Play it again Sam!
Uránia Movie Theatre 00:00
Performance of the Beer-Sheva Theatre from Israel
Legends of world music
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
Concert of Marko Markovic, Félix Lajkó and the Gipsy Cymbal Band of Kálmán Balogh

August 30, 2011 (Tuesday)
Orian Michaeli, Laura Kirshenbaum and the N.G. Dance Project
Uránia Movie Theatre 19:00
Contemporary dance evening in two part
Thousand and One Sephardic Night
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
Concert of Bea Palya
participating: András Dés and Mátyás Bolya
Viennese Salon
Rumbach Street Synagogue 19:30
Concert by Orsolya Korcsolán violinist
Participating: Florian Krumpöck (piano), Norddeutsche Philharmonie
Gergely Sugár (horn), Vienna Symphony Orchestra

August 31, 2011 (Wednesday)
Leonard Cohen and Irving Berlin
Uránia Movie Theatre 19:00
Concert of Mariann Falusi and Tamás Földes from the works of Leonard Cohen and Irving Berlin
Concert of David D'Or and Erika Miklósa
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
Participating: The Failoni Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera
conductor: Murry Sidlin
From Bach to Gershwin
Rumbach Street Synagogue 19:30
Concert by Leonard Schreiber (violin) and Veronika Shoot (piano)

September 01, 2011 (Thursday)
Budapest Bar
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
Old songs with new voices
participating :  Dóri Behumi, Frenk,  László Klemencz Kollár,  András Lovasi, Juci Németh, Rutkai Bori Rutkai and Krisztián Szűcs
My heart is happy – contemporary chanson evening
Rumbach Street Synagogue 19:30
Participating:
Péter Sárik, Sándor Fodo, Zsolt Pálfy, Endre Kertész, Balázs Cserta, Edina

September 03, 2011 (Saturday)
Love till madness - film music of the old times
Uránia Movie Theatre 21:00
Concert of Eszter Horgas and the ClassJazz Band
participating: Éva Botos and Milos Punisic
Omer Klein Trio
Rumbach Street Synagogue 21:00
participating: Omer Klein, Haggai Cohen Milo és Ziv Ravitz

September 04, 2011 (Sunday)
Balkan project - Concert of Zoltán Orosz accordion artist
Uránia Movie Theatre 19:00
participating: Agatics Krunoszláv,  Zoltán Balogh , Béla Lattman, Kornél Horváth, Mihály Borbély
Song recital of Polina Pasztircsák
Rumbach Street Synagogue 19:00
participating : Nóra Füzi ( piano )
Idan Raichel Project - Special Acoustic Concert
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00
The Israeli star band first time in Hungary

September 05, 2011 (Monday)
Mókus and the Fabula Rasa – The worlds of world music
Uránia Movie Theatre 19:00
guest artist: Eszter Bíró
The Budapest Klezmer Band and the Vujicsics Ensemble
Dohány street Synagogue 19:00

History of the Jewish Summer Festival from 1998 until today
Visitors can get to know the traditions and holidays of this thousands-of-years-old culture and can see performances of many world renowned artists.
The Jewish Tourism and Cultural Center organized the first festival in 1998 in the framework of the Budapest Jewish Community, choosing the Dohány Street Synagogue, Europe’s biggest and most spectacular synagogue as its center.
Not only is this synagogue one of Budapest’s most amazing sights, but is also a long-lasting symbol of Hungarian Jewry. Even prior to the festival concerts were held in this synagogue, and yet it was the Jewish Summer Festival that turned this magnificent building into a true concert hall. In 2006 we opened the Rumbach Sebestyén Street Synagogue to the public of the festival, built by the 20th century’s famed Viennese architect, Otto Wagner...

http://www.jewishfestival.hu

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