Mezőségi
Szervezés:
Mezőségi
This programme is held in Hungarian.
-What's the next tune? Mezőségi! Mezőségi? Palatkai? Szombattelki? Füzesi?
-Do you feel like dancing one? Why, what's up? Mező...
-How much longer will we play? After the cigarette break, play one more Mezőségi, then you can go.
-What was that Szék block, wasn't it supposed to be about Mezőség? Szék is also in the Mezőség. Okay, thanks a lot, you know why I asked...
These conversations probably take place at every domestic dance house, except perhaps at Moldavian parties — or maybe even there? In the Great Hall of the House of Hungarian Music on March 8 we can hear, in pure form, the varied and endlessly popular music of the Mezőség, that oft-mentioned region — straight from the source, from the hands of village masters. Will it be Palatkai? Szopori? Mocsi? Széki? Maybe all of them? Well, in one word: mezőségi.
In the heart of Transylvania you'll find a hilly region, muddy in winter, dusty in summer, with small villages, rutted roads and such a colorful folk music that it sparked the Hungarian dance-house movement and remains to this day one of the main breeding grounds of the Hungarian revival at home and beyond the borders. The area's distinctive geography and mixed ethnic makeup provided, over many centuries, conditions ideal for the development of truly exciting, diverse traditional musical forms that include both archaic and newer elements. This musical diversity is presented by the program edited by Szász Dávid, in which the genre's outstanding village masters take the stage from Magyarpalatka, Mezőszopor, Szék, Mocs, and perhaps other villages as well, with the Transylvanian revival's stalwart ensemble, Rezeda, serving as the resident band. The concert will be contextualized by folk-music researcher Pávai István as host. Nowadays it's rare to encounter so many excellent village lead fiddlers on one stage, so we can expect an unforgettable experience in every respect.
The House of Music Hungary’s concert programme is divided into a number of series with different thematic tracks. The Landscapes and Their Music series presents the musical traditions of the various ethnographic regions of the Carpathian Basin with the participation of still-living village musicians and dancers, as well as important performers from the dance house movement. The series has so far addressed the regions of Gyimes (Mozsika and Gardon, 14 October 2022), the Uplands (Fonó Band, Eszter Pál, Muzicka (SK): On Upland Roads, 16 December 2022), Őrkő (Heveder, Géza Kóré, Rémusz Eötvös: ‘My soul, my brother Laji...’, 26 February 2023), the Mezőség lake district (I Look Towards Buza: Singers from a Mezőség Village Sing of the Lake District, 10 March 2023) and the Southlands (Balázs Csonka: The Music of the Diverse Southlands, 24 May 2023).
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