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This autumn, the Great Church will again offer exciting cultural programmes. In the coming months, the symbolic building of civic identity will host performances, concerts and exhibitions.
The people of Debrecen have met the Kodály Philharmonic many times within the walls of the Reformed Great Reformed Church. In the autumn, Hungarian pop music classics will be dressed in a symphonic gown. For example, the hit songs “Kislány a zongoránál” (Little Girl at the Piano) and Mama will be performed in a new orchestration.
“We were very pleased when we received a request from the Reformed Church to do a concert in the Great Church that would take us away from our everyday lives, away from the world in which we classical musicians move,” Chief Music Director of the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Dániel Somogyi-Tóth said.
Among the special autumn cultural programmes, there will be exhibitions, book launches and lectures in the Reformed Great Church and in Karakter Café. For example, the exhibition in the East Tower, which will open soon in a previously closed area of the church, is inspired by fire-fighting activities. There are also plans to hold talks with Paralympic athletes and a lecture in honour of Magda Szabó on her birthday.
“It is also essential for everyone here at the parish that the church is not only filled with life on Sundays for the few hours we hold services. Be filled with life on weekdays and the other days of the week as well,” President-Pastor of the Reformed Parish of Debrecen-Great Reformed Church István Oláh emphasised.
“The Great Church is not only an iconic symbol of the city but also a community space,” Deputy Mayor István Puskás said, adding that he is pleased that in recent years, the cultural activity of the community of the Reformed Great Church has become more and more lively, enriching not only their community, the congregation, but the whole city.
The autumn programme starts on Sunday with the opening of an exhibition by artist József Csoma at the Calvin János Gallery of the Reformed Great Church.
Source: debrecen.hu
