Matt Van  Brink, composer, pianist, 

accordionist

Tools of the Trade - Liszt & Kodaly in Budapest

Ah, to be bourgeoisie. The Franz Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest features a reconstruction of the 5-room apartment where he lived for his last seven years. Pianos (including what seems to be a Vorsetzer) paintings, furniture (including my favorite -- the desk with a pull-out dummy keyboard), and doodads now populate the space. If you're in the neighborhood, stop on in! Then visit the Kodaly Memorial House around the corner to see that composer's Edison cylinder recorder and some touching folkloristic photos of his using it. Oh, and it is also an erudite kind of place -- I wonder how it fared during post World War II-era shared-housing communist Hungary.
And now, to install a dummy keyboard under my desk.


Concerts
June 18, 2010
Polkastra @ IdeaCity10
May 18, 2010 8:00 PM (SF)
June 13, 2010 4:00 PM (SF)
June 19, 2010 8:00 PM (Palo Alto)
June 20, 2010 4:00 PM (Oakland)
San Francisco Choral Artists | The Lower Leaves of Trees
June 27, 2010 (NYC)
March 5, 2010 8:00 PM (Amherst)
January 8, 2010 7:30 PM (Cleveland)
Gamelan Galak Tika mini tour
July 21-22, Time TBD
Concordia Conservatory Summer Musical Theater Workshops
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