In Pari – Lyrics and music
In Pari is a series in which music marries with other art forms, in pairs and as an equal, as the series title suggests. This time, the lyrics of Ádám Bodor, a Kossuth Prize-winning prose writer who rarely performs in public, are paired with the music of drummer Áron Porteleki and cellist Albert Márkos. The texts will be read by the actor Rémusz Szikszai. After the performance, Orsolya Láng will talk to Ádám Bodor and answer questions from the audience.
As usual in the In Pari series, the performers will improvise, reacting to each other's performances. The dramaturgy of the evening is shaped by the back-and-forth effect, and by the end of the production we get the impression that the genres were in parity, rather than in a subordinate-to-upper-ordered relationship.
Schedule
◖ Contributing ◗
Rémusz Szikszai - reading
Áron Porteleki - viola, drums
Márkos Albert - cello
Presented by Orsolya Láng
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◖ Ádám Bodor ◗
Born in Cluj Napoca on 22 February 1936, he studied theology there but did not enter the ministry. He worked as an archivist from 1960 and then in a copy-translation office from 1964. In 1965 he published his first short story in the Cluj magazine Utunk. Since 1968 he has been a freelance writer.
In 1982 he moved to Hungary, where he became editor-in-charge of Magvető Publishing House in 1984. His first volume of short prose, A tanú (1969), was published as a mature writer. His works of non-fiction are quite unique in Hungarian literature. In one place he said: 'Nothing is ready, for me almost everything unfolds in the process of writing. Sometimes a place, a feeling, a smell, a place where something starts to happen, is enough as a starting point. Or simply a mood. Something that can't be tagged out in advance, recorded. This elusive something, this secret breeze, is the soul of the short story. If it's not floating somewhere close by, it's better not to force it..."
His works have been published in more than twenty languages.
Published by Magvető Publishers:
What is a pass like? (1980), Sinistra District (1992), The Archbishop's Visit (1999), The Smell of Prison. Answers to Zsófia Balla's Questions (2001), Back to the Eared Owl (2003), The Department (2006), The Last Coal Burners (2010), The Birds of Verhovina (2011), Back to the Eared Owl (2015), The Possibilities of Friendship. Short stories and film (2016), Nowhere (2019), The labyrinths of interpretation. Fifteen Conversations (2021)
Awards.
◖ Rémusz Szikszai ◗
Born in 1969 in Nagykároly. He graduated from high school with a degree in mathematics and physics. Between 1990-1994 he was a student at the Szentgyörgyi István Szentgyörgyi Academy of Dramatic Arts in Târgu Mures, specializing in acting. During his university years, he was awarded the UNITER prize with his peers for the performance Tom Paine. Between 1994-1997 he was an actor at the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj-Napoca. Between 1997-2006 he was a member of the Bárka Theatre, and since 2006 he has been a freelancer. In 2005, he was awarded a prize at the Kalisz Festival for his performance Mulatság (Funny Life). He regularly performs, directs, dubs and hosts shows in various theatres and on television.
◖ Áron Porteleki ◗
Áron Porteleki is a drummer and violist, one of the unavoidable figures of the free music and experimental scene in Budapest. He has creatively incorporated his folk music roots into a number of formations and is characterised by his cross-genre approach to music. In addition to active performing, he is an internationally acclaimed composer of contemporary dance pieces.
◖ Albert Márkos ◗
Albert Márkos is a composer, cellist and a leading figure in the Hungarian improvisational, contemporary, applied and experimental music scene. Born in Cluj-Napoca, he is also recognized as a film composer, composer of music for theatre, member of several jazz and contemporary music formations and projects (Kassák, ARGO, budbudās, W.H. Shakespeare, Tractus, etc.) and composer of numerous contemporary music works. Editor of the In Pari series.
House of Music Hungary
A music education centre and concert venue in the heart of the City Park, behind the airy futuristic glass facade of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.