2011
hungarian cultural centre • london
the Keyboard – how the Wizard cast his spells. In addition to our special guests, this talk will also be open to students and the general public.
april
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Following the talk, a Liszt roundtable discussion will take place at 7.30pm for one hour. The participants will include Dr Alan Walker, Dr Maria Eckhardt (Director of the Liszt Research Centre in Budapest and, until recently, Director of the Liszt Museum, and a distinguished choral conductor). At the time of writing we hope to add the names of a distinguished pianist, a conductor or composer and a musicologist to act as a moderator so as to elicit a variety of viewpoints.
Δ Free. For reservations please contact the Hungarian Cultural Centre on 020 72406162 or bookings@hungary.org.uk
Monday | 11 April | 6.30 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre
e LITERATURE national day of poetry
Launching Ágnes Lehóczky’s book on Ágnes Nemes Nagy The Hungarian Cultural Centre is proud to host the launch of Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance – Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy by Ágnes Lehóczky, Hungarian poet, translator and academic. The evening pays tribute to the Hungarian modernist poet and essayist Ágnes Nemes Nagy, one of the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century. The event will launch the first sustained study in English on her poetry, poetics prose and translations followed by readings from her work, poetry and prose in English, and a discussion on issues of translating her work in English introduced by poet and translator, George Szirtes. The renowned translator Peter Zollmann will also share his translations of Ágnes Nemes Nagy. ‘Reading Ágnes Nemes Nagy, even in translation, one cannot help but be struck by the fierce intellect, the high seriousness, and absolute concentration manifest in her poetry. It is an intellect that, however, does not work upon us in terms of ideas, but of sensibility. Had she written in English, German or French her work would now be perceived as central to mid- and late-twentieth century consciousness and beyond.