2007 PRESS RELEASES
Embassy Sponsors Hungarian-Slovak Big Band Jazz Evening
Cooperation between language and ethnic groups starts with
communication. The American Embassy is
sponsoring such communication -- through music -- on December 2, when Matúš
Jakabčic's CZ-SK Big Band, with Hungarian jazz trumpeter Kornél Fekete-Kovács
as special guest, perform a jazz evening at Studio 12 in Bratislava.
Ambassador Rodolphe M. Vallee and the Hungarian Embassy's Cultural Attache Andras Agh will host the concert by 15 musicians. The program is organized by RaRa Musica, which promotes collaboration between Hungarian and Slovak people through culture. This is the third concert held under the auspices of Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kinga Göncz and his couterpart Ján Kubiš, along with Deputy Prime Minister Dušan Čaplovič and Minister of Culture Marek Maďarič.
