THE PAST OF MUSIC EDUCATION IN MISKOLC IS ALSO AN OBLIGATION

The concert given by students of UM’s Bartók Béla Faculty of Music in the Music Palace on the occasion of the World Music Day also paid tribute to Miskolc's century-long musical past. The evening also featured students from the Bartók Béla Music and Dance Secondary School of Miskolc.

“World Music Day has been celebrated since 1975 at the initiative of violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. However, the music-loving public of Miskolc had already shown its commitment to music long before that, at the beginning of the 20th century, when in 1927, partly through public donations, it built a palace for music," said Sándor Papp, dean of the Bartók Béla Faculty of Music, before the concert. He also pointed out that the history of organised music education in Miskolc goes back even further, to the founding of the Association of Music Lovers and later the Miskolc Public Culture Association. The crowning achievement of their activities was the establishment of the Municipal Hubay Jenő Music School in the present-day Zenepalota, which in time became the home of vocational secondary education and, from 1966, of higher education in music.

"Heritage is an obligation", the dean stressed, adding that the Faculty of Music considers it its duty to cultivate the Hungarian musical heritage, which is also marked by the names of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, by providing students with high-quality education.

The concert on the occasion of the World Music Day on 3 October featured works by Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Lajos Bárdos and József Karai, performed by the orchestras, choirs and ensembles of the Bartók Béla Faculty of Music and the Bartók Béla Music and Dance Secondary School of Miskolc.