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Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly: Psalmus Hungaricus<\/span><\/p>\n

9 May 2010, Italian Cultural Institute, Budapest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tam\u00e1s Csel\u00f3czki<\/strong>
\nTenor<\/p>\n

Budapest Academic Choral Society<\/strong>
\nChorus master: Ildik\u00f3 Balassa<\/p>\n

Budafok Dohn\u00e1nyi Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. Warmly welcome to everyone here in our concert today. This day presents a very special occasion: partly because (as I\u2019ve devoted this whole year\u2019s series to my teachers and professors) with this closing concert I wish to pay obeisance to Imre F\u00f6ldes [1]<\/a>, which can thus be considered a symbolic event. Probably he is the most \u201cresponsible\u201d for my maniac desire to persuade my audience to comprehend, understand and love music. So first of all let me welcome Professor F\u00f6ldes here with all my heart.
\nBut this day is extraordinary also because in addition to our current members in Budapest Academic Choral Society our former singers will also perform in this concert, considering that we\u2019ve been singing together for exactly 30 years now.
\nI had two reasons for choosing Psalmus Hungaricus. The first is that we\u2019ve sung it with the choir a lot of times ever since the beginning and performing this piece has always contributed to a ceremonial moment in our life. The other reason is that (I\u2019ve really checked it) it was exactly 30 years ago when Professor F\u00f6ldes held an unforgettable lecture about Psalmus Hungaricus in the Academy of Music. I think I can remember his lecture: it was then and there, in the Music Academy lecture that I collected my current apprehension of this work and learnt everything I believe and think about it. But of course all this will turn out now \u2013 at least certainly for Professor F\u00f6ldes.
\nWe\u2019ve distributed a sheet among You, and even if You don\u2019t all read music, You\u2019ll see that relying on this staff You\u2019ll get somewhat closer to a certain miracle hidden in the leading melody of Psalmus.
\nAmong others, there\u2019s a very important thing we\u2019ve learnt from the Professor, and this strictly echoes in my ears in almost each moment of my life. Namely that we musicians must understand why each note is what it is and not something else. This quest for actual answers flashed a beam of light on my understanding that we can take in music subject to the relation between our expectations and the fulfilment of our expectations. For those who listen to music the delight in and joy of music will primarily be materialized in the fulfilment of their expectations, which can simply be called recognition.
\nFor incitement I\u2019ll now reveal You that all in all the joy of listening to music still originates from extraordinariness and suddenness, provided our endmost feeling is indeed the fulfilment of expectations and the enjoyment of recognition. I can reassure You that You similarly like the very compositions and find them the most exciting wherein the composer frequently \u201ccheats\u201d You relevant to Your expectations. We musicians also learn by first understanding the rules through less determinative masters or small pieces, and later when we meet the great masters, we try to learn the miracle from them, i.e. to identify what we expected, what we got instead and why. We musicians are capable, with some luck, of phrasing the answer for ourselves, but You can also often feel some suspicious or strange in Your innards. After all, this is one of the most essential parts of listening to music. Psalmus Hungaricus, the piece we\u2019ll introduce now, is unique in this regard.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s now sing the \u201cPsalmus melody\u201d, which is in fact considered a piece of perfection engraved in stone.<\/p>\n

     <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>1. Psalmus Hungaricus<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span>