Opening Ceremony and brief introduction to the day's events
Announcement of the epigram-writing
competition |
University and college Special Colleges' Morning
Introductory talk on the role of the Soros Foundation in setting up
the special colleges and their past, present and future.
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Debate on
social sensitivity - Part I.
Chaired by Dr. Boldizsár Nagy, international lawyer
Participants: Members of university and college special colleges
supported by the Soros Foundation in Budapest and elsewhere .
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Intellectual
customs inspection
5-minute reminiscences by Soros Foundation
alumni - Part I
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Exhibition of items brought home by the Los Gringos Group from their collection tour of Peru, musical
instrument exhibition, and film show accompanied by live performance.
Led by: Zoltán
Kurdi
The Los Gringos Group, led by Zoltán Kurdi, studied and collected the
life, customs and music of the native people of the Andes. The purposes of the expeditions
was to record the unique sounds of traditional Andean music, and to present and popularise
it by means of concerts and recordings. The exhibition attempts to give a taste of the
every day life of the Indians by means of photographs and objects from three countries:
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
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Photographs and video by Ágnes Galla, former student on scholarship to Bologna. |
Chamber music performance by the Akadémia String Quartet
Formed in the Ferenc Liszt College of Music in
1994, Rado Ferenc Department.
Leader: Béla Bánfalvi
Mozart: G-major string quartet, 1st movement
Mendelssohn: E-major quartet, 1st movement.
Bartók: 1st string quartet, 3rd movement.
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Battuta
small band acoustic chamber jazz
concert
The group's music is dominated by Endre Juhász compositions. It covers
a wide range, an exciting synthesis of traditional European cultural elements with themes
from various ethnic musics.
Members: Sámuel Grillusz, bass guitar, Gergely Ittzés, flute,
Endre Juhász, oboe, cor anglais, Krisztián Magi, piano, Máté Pálhegyi, flute.
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The medieval
universities and the Soros Foundation
Meeting of alumni from former students on scholarships to Oxford,
Leiden and Bologna, with talks and exhibition (in Hungarian and English)
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Fashion show
Programme compiled by: Kata Lázár, costume
designer, former scholarship student in the Postgraduate scholarship for foreign artistic
training programme.
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Conversation
with prominent personalities, curators and award-winners who have formed
the history and spirit of the Soros Foundation, talking about the Foundation's 15-year
history, its place in intellectual life and its forming role in Hungarian society.
Chair: Miklós Györffy
Opening music: Tomkins Vocal Group
Formed in 1978. The group nurtures Hungarian music, but sings
everything from renaissance to contemporary works that is possible by such a small group.
Programme: Anglo-Italian renaissance dance songs, Brahms
romantic song waltzes, Evergreen songs
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Scottish Country
Dancing
Music by the M.É.Z group, led by György
Hajdu Martin, former scholarship student to Oxford.
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All-day programmes: Special Colleges exhibition
The performers, speakers and exhibiting artists in each item of the
programme have all received from the Foundation institutional grants, individual
scholarships or scholarship-support for their activities.
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