15 WHAT’S ON

PEARL JAM JULY 15, BUDAPEST SPORT ARÉNA

October 22, 2015 officially marked 25 years of Pearl Jam performing live. Ten studio albums, hundreds of unique live performances and hundreds of official live concert bootleg releases later, the band continue to be critically acclaimed and commercially successful – with over 85 million albums sold worldwide. Pearl Jam released their Grammy Award-winning tenth studio album, ‘Lightning Bolt’ in October 2013, which debuted at Nr. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart as well as Nr. 1 on iTunes in over 50 countries. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. www.livenation.hu

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: PUSHING THE LIMITS MAY 19 EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE, YET TO BE ANNOUNCED! The Harlem Globetrotters announced recently that they will be suspending all remaining games scheduled on their domestic and international tours through mid-May in order to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The Globetrotters encourage ticket holders to hold on to tickets, as the team will make every effort to reschedule postponed events as soon as possible. The Harlem Globetrotters are legendary worldwide, synonymous with one-of-a-kind family entertainment and great basketball skills for the past 93 years. Throughout their history, the Original Harlem Globetrotters have showcased their iconic talents in 124 countries and territories on six continents, often breaking down cultural and societal barriers while providing fans with their firstever basketball experience. Proud inductees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Globetrotters have entertained hundreds of millions of fans – among them popes, kings, queens, and presidents – over nine thrilling decades. They are currently preparing for their 94th year of touring with the “Pushing the Limits” World Tour, during which the team will play in more than 250 North American markets, as well as more than 30 countries worldwide, including Hungary. The tour will feature high-flying dunks, hilarious stunts, a new recordbreaking attempt and unforgettable family moments. www.broadway.hu

BONNIE TYLER JUNE 19 BARBA NEGRA TRACK Bonnie Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins, was brought up in Skewen, a small village near Swansea. She grew up to become one of Wales’ best known performers, achieving chart success all over the world. She is recognized for her distinctive husky voice, and a long list of hit singles including ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, ‘It’s a Heartache’, ‘Holding Out for a Hero’, ‘Lost in France’, ‘More Than a Lover’, ‘Bitterblue’ and ‘If I Sing You a Love Song’. In her 50-year career, Bonnie has performed for audiences in countries across the world and has enjoyed critical acclaim for her latest albums ‘Rocks and Honey’ and ‘Between The Earth and the Stars’. www.broadway.hu

DÜRER - BLACK AND WHITE ONLINE, HUNGARIAN FINE ARTS MUSEUM

Due to the public health emergency caused by Covid-19, the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest is closed for an indefinite period of time (just as all museums in Hungary). To please art fans, the institution invites them on several virtual tours, sharing its digital content with the public.

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), the most significant painter and graphic artist of the German Renaissance was often compared to the influential artist of Greek antiquity, Apelles, in that the exceptional descriptive power and richness of detail in his engravings and woodcuts were praised. Desiderius Erasmus, the humanist scholar, pointed out that Dürer even transcended Apelles in greatness, since the latter required colors to achieve what Dürer could do with black lines alone. Dürer’s father was a goldsmith, who had left Ajtós, a town close to Gyula, Hungary, to settle in Nuremberg in 1455. Albrecht was born here, his parents’ third child, in 1471. He started his training as a goldsmith in his father’s workshop, then in 1486 he was apprenticed to Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) in Nuremberg for three years, where he learned the techniques of painting as well as woodcut printing. In 1490, he departed Nuremberg, and visited the Upper Rhineland and presumably the Netherlands. Returning to his native Nuremberg, Dürer worked as an independent artist, mostly selfpublishing his works. He probably undertook his first journey to Venice in the autumn of 1494, where he studied Italian Renaissance works. On his return to Nuremberg in 1495 he became acquainted with humanist themes through his academic friends, such as Willibald Pirckheimer. These themes, besides his religious and mythological imagery, also appeared in his prints. In 1505 he travelled to Italy for the second time and returned home in 1507. Apart from his undistinguished sojourns, Dürer lived and worked in Nuremberg. It was Albrecht Dürer who elevated the techniques of woodcut and engraving to the status of painting and sculpture in Europe, where they had emerged in the late 14th and mid-15th centuries, respectively, due to the cheap mass production of paper. In contrast with his great ancestors, Dürer created something new in both woodcut and engraving, while he also experimented with drypoint and etching. As a result of his exceptionally prolific life, he bequeathed a significant oeuvre of paintings, 970 drawings, 105 intaglio prints (engravings, etchings, drypoints) and 346 woodcuts. There are some 250 engravings in the rich collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. A selection of the most beautiful can be seen in the institution’s website. www.on-line.szepmuveszeti.hu

QUARANTINE SOIRÉES ONLINE, BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Each night, as of March 16, members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra will play live chamber music concerts called Quarantine soirées, online. Streamed from the BFO's rehearsal studio, these concerts are recommended for all music-lovers in isolation. Iván Fischer, Music Director of the BFO says: “We all need music, now more than ever. This is a time of intimate home listening, and chamber music because it would be dangerous to invite a whole symphony orchestra and audiences into a closed space.” BFO appeals to listeners to support musicians of the Quarantine soirées, who lost most of their income due to cancellations of the orchestra’s concerts. The Quarantine soirées can be enjoyed via the orchestra's website or Facebook-page at 19.45 each day. www.bfo.hu

HARRY STYLES MAY 31 CONCERT RESCHEDULED! NEW DATE: FEBRUARY 22, 2021, BUDAPEST ARENA

English-born singer and teen heartthrob Harry Styles rose to fame as one of the five members of boy band One Direction. He launched his solo career in 2016 and made his acting debut in the 2017 film 'Dunkirk.' Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, on February 1, 1994, Harry Styles first sang with a band in a school competition. In 2010, he performed on the television show The X Factor, where the judges combined him with four other young male singers to form One Direction. The boy band became a pop music sensation, delivering hits like ‘Best Song Ever’ and ‘Story of My Life’ through five immensely successful studio albums. Styles then made a solo splash in 2017 with his debut single, ‘Sign of the Times’ and a self-titled album. Fans then waited another two years for his next single, which came in October 2019 with the soulful ‘Lights Up’. Shortly before the release of his solo album ‘Fine Line,’ the singer announced plans for his 2020 Love On Tour, which, due to the coronavirus, will be postponed. www.livenation.hu

KORN JUNE 9, BUDAPEST SPORT ARÉNA

Jonathon Davis, James Shaffer, Reginald Arvizu and Ray Luzier are four musicians who blend their musical talents together to create a unique combination of nu/ alternative metal mastery. Since their 1994 beginnings, Korn has released a total of 10 studio albums and 2 live albums that have produced 39 chart topping singles including ‘A.D.I.D.A.S’, ‘Freak On A Leash’, ‘Twisted Transistor’, ‘Right Now’, ‘Here To Stay’ and ‘Thoughtless’. Throughout their nearly 20-year career the band has won a 2000 and 2003 Grammy Award and 2 MTV Video Music Awards and, to support their numerous albums and hit singles, they have spent a lot of time touring the world to play to their legions of fans. www.livenation.hu