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Tool to hammer eardrums
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Festival Academy Budapest chamber music series to be held in July
The seventh Festival Academy Budapest chamber music series, founded by Hungarian violinists Katalin Kokas and Barnabas Kelemen, is to be held at various venues in the capital from July 15 to 24.
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Budapest Spring Festival to offer 170 programmes
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Mundruczo returns to the Venice Biennale as a theatre director
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The Bach for Everyone festival will hold 150 free concerts in 60 localities throughout the Carpathian Basin and beyond between March 16 and 31, organisers said on Tuesday.
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The Budapest Autumn Festival will offer over 150 events at thirty venues between September 26 and October 10, the deputy mayor in charge of charge of cultural affairs said on Thursday.
