Muzsikás and Glass House Orchestra
presented by The Embassy of Hungary and The Balassi Institute
As part of the Pop Up Budapest program series, Muzsikás and Glass House Orchestra perform world music inspired by their native land.
The winners of the WOMEX Award 2008 for World Music, Muzsikás is the most renowned and popular Hungarian folk music ensemble worldwide. After 40 years of their unrivaled career, the group has pioneered the global popularity of Hungarian folk music and helped the genre earn a well-established niche in the roots and world music scenes. Due to their unique musical skills, instrumental knowledge and musical versatility, the ensemble's members can adapt to different music scenes, collaborating with various noted musicians and groups, from folk and world music to classical and jazz, and even to alternative rock music.
Grammy Award-winner Frank London acts as the bandleader for Glass House Orchestra, an international supergroup of 8 virtuosos that grew out of a project initiated by the Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center in New York to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust in Hungary. The band seeks to present an image of the incredibly complex legacy of Jewish Hungarian culture, while also creating a space for this legacy in the present day, both in Hungary and the world over. The ensemble is named after the Glass House or Üvegház, the famous building, one among 76, designated as a safehouse by Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz during the Holocaust in Hungary, which sheltered thousands of persecuted Jewish Hungarians.
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