The Brussels Liszt Institute launched a three-day Bartók festival on Wednesday, in cooperation with the Bartók archives in Brussels and Budapest.
The festival held at the Liszt Institute in Brussels will feature lectures and concerts featuring works written or inspired by Béla Bartók, organisers have said.
Tamás Iván Kocsis, Hungary’s Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, will lay a wreath at Bartok’s statue in Brussels on Thursday, on the anniversary of the composer’s death.
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Culture minister: Joint European heritage a source of identity
A joint European heritage is the source of identity and a token of the future, the culture and innovation minister said in Visegrad, in northern Hungary, on Wednesday, adding: “We will hail our Christian traditions even if Europe should forget about its roots.”
Balázs Hankó said at the opening of the Cultural Routes annual professional forum of the Council of Europe that Hungary had enshrined the importance of Christianity and traditions in its Fundamental Law, “but that in itself is not enough: we need living, strong Christian communities to keep those traditions alive.”
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