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Takács Quartet review – sheer aural pleasure

The Observer 22 May 2018

No ensembles have more delicately balanced constitutions, musical and psychological, than string quartets. Finding a new member for a long established group and integrating them successfully is a tricky process for everyone involved, and when that group is arguably the greatest string quartet in the world, it must seem more daunting still ... His departure means that only the cellist András Fejér remains from the original lineup ... ....

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The illiberal tandem vs Europe

Open Democracy 11 May 2018

It’s not only the language and resetting of the agenda that the ruling parties of Hungary and Poland have in common. However, they do not mirror each other either ... Photo. Ina Fassbender/Press Association. All rights reserved ... Developments in Hungary culminated in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruling that the country violated the rights of András Baka , the former President of the Hungarian Supreme Court ... Russia....

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In Plots to Smear Obama Aides and George Soros, Israeli Spies for Hire Attack Netanyahu’s Enemies

The Intercept 07 May 2018

Farrow previously revealed the firm’s role in spying on women who had accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault ... 10/10 ... The target of one sting, András Siewert, director of Hungary’s Migration Aid, was so suspicious of the approach from a man with an Israeli accent who called himself Grigori Alexsandrov, that he secretly recorded and photographed their meeting, and later posted the audio and photos on YouTube ... Top photo ... 10, 2014....

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Radio Atlantic : Is the Presidency Broken?

The Atlantic 27 Apr 2018

Links. - “The Hardest Job in the World” (John Dickerson, May 2018 Issue) ... - Educated (Tara Westover, 2018). - Meltdown. Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, 2018) ... ....

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Met hosts group of international directors for the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium

The Art Newspaper 27 Apr 2018

While at many museum leadership gatherings “there’s a lot of stage-managed dialogue”, says András Szántó, the GMLC’s moderator (who has written previously for The Art Newspaper), most of the discussion sessions at the GMLC are private and closed to members of the press. Around the third day of the event, the participants are “getting to the place where people can allow openness”, Szántó says ... ....

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It Turns Out That Trees Have A "Heartbeat" Too

IFL Science 23 Apr 2018

Many people alone in forests at night have developed a suspicion the trees are somehow awake and moving. Tolkien made use of the idea in the Old Forest and Fangorn ... We still don't know why, however ... For trees, this means drawing water from the roots to the leaves ... Dr András Zlinszky at Aarhus University, Denmark, used a laser scanning technique to measure the exact location of branches and leaves of 22 tree and shrub species ... ....

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The week in classical: Europe and the World; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – review

The Guardian 22 Apr 2018

Classical music. The Observer. The week in classical. Europe and the World; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – review. British Museum; Royal Opera House, London Treasures abound in the British Museum’s first music festival ... 5 / 5 stars ... The Berlin Philharmonic with its new music director, Kirill Petrenko; Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony; Daniel Barenboim, Yuja Wang and, with more late-night Bach, András Schiff are among bill-topping names ... ....

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Hungarians Take to the Streets to Protest an Election Seen as a Hammer Blow to Democracy

The Intercept 15 Apr 2018

András Kováts, the director of Menedék, explained in an interview in Budapest before the list was published that his organization had cooperated with the government to provide social and educational services to legal immigrants, helping to ease their integration into Hungarian society, without controversy for nearly two decades — until 2015, when the word “migrant” was transformed into “a swear word.”....

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Sting operations and war on migration help Orbán to victory

The Observer 15 Apr 2018

Alrabie’s fund was interested in supporting projects that helped refugees, he said, and paid for Dénes to fly to Amsterdam to discuss potential collaboration ... Show Hide ... Photograph ... Two weeks before Dénes flew to Amsterdam, András Siewert, who runs the Hungarian NGO Migration Aid, went to Vienna to meet Grigory Aleksandrov, who claimed to be from a company called Smart InnoTech that offered technological solutions to migration issues ... ....

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Hungarian journalists admit role in forging anti-migrant 'atmosphere of fear'

The Guardian 13 Apr 2018

Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán’s election victory this week. A leading editor at Hungary’s state television network punched the air in jubilation as he took a phone call on Sunday evening. Shortly afterwards, his subordinates realised what he had been told ... András Pethö, who was the deputy editor but left in 2014 to co-found a new wesbite, direkt36.hu, said ... ....

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Pianist András Schiff makes a welcome return

San Francisco Chronicle 11 Apr 2018

Among the great musical gifts that San Francisco has enjoyed during recent years, the recurrent recitals by pianist András Schiff must rank at or near the top. In a long, unfolding series of appearances co-presented by San Francisco Performances and the San Francisco Symphony, Schiff has deployed his formidable interpretive intellect and equally formidable keyboard technique in a broad expanse of the standard keyboard repertoire ... ....

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Andras Schiff dishing out double dose of Brahms in SF

The Mercury News 11 Apr 2018

Andras Schiff serves up Brahms X 2. Pianist András Schiff, who brings a keen mix of sensitivity and brawn to a wide range of piano repertoire, returns to Davies Symphony Hall this weekend with two programs featuring mature works by Brahms. The first, on Sunday, puts the spotlight on the composer’s Eight Piano Pieces and Seven Fantasies ... Filling out this Brahms intensive are works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann and Mendelssohn ... ....

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Hungary election: OSCE monitors deliver damning verdict

Democratic Underground 10 Apr 2018

https.//www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/09/hungary-election-osce-monitors-deliver-damning-verdict ... They featured a long line of migrants, emblazoned with the word STOP ... András Tóth-Czifra of the European Stability Initiative thinktank said European leaders would now feel there was no alternative to Orbán, which would make it harder to apply pressure and give him more leeway to brush off criticism ... ....

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