Boat Trips & City Tours - Budapest - page 85

Entertainment
For a city its size, Budapest has a huge choice of things to do and places to go after
dark - from opera and folk dancing to live jazz and films screened in palatial
cinemas. It's usually not difficult getting tickets or getting in; the hard part is decid-
ing what to do and where to go.
Music
CLASSICAL & OPERA
Apart from the city's main concert halls, including the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy , the
Palace of Arts and the Hungarian State Opera House , many museums and other venues fea-
ture chamber music. They include, in Pest, the Old Music Academy, where the Franz Liszt
Memorial Museum is housed; Magyar Rádió Marble Hall (Magyar Rádió Márványterme;
MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 1-328 7878; http://www.radio.hu/ ; VIII Pollack Mihály tér 8; 47,
49); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Duna Palota and the newly renovated Pesti Vi-
gadó . 'Second-tier' venues in Buda include the Béla Bartók Memorial House , the Music His-
tory Museum and the Millennium Theatre.
Organ recitals are best heard in the city's churches, including Matthias Church and the
Church of St Anne in Buda, and, in Pest, the Basilica of St Stephen , the Inner Town Parish
Church and St Michael's Inner Town Church (Belvárosi Szent Mihály Templom; MAP
GOOGLE MAP ; www.szentmihalytemplom.hu/ ; V Váci utca 47/b; M3 Ferenciek tere).
ROCK, POP & JAZZ
A number of bars and pubs feature live pop or rock music throughout the week. Top venues
include Gödör , Trafó and Akvárium Klub in Pest and A38 in Buda. For jazz, nothing beats
the recently relocated Budapest Jazz Club , though Budapest Music Center is also recommen-
ded. Columbus Club, on a boat moored in the Danube, also has jazz.
FOLK & TRADITIONAL
Authentic táncház (literally 'dance house', but really folk-music workshops) are held at vari-
ous locations throughout the week (though frequently in summer). Times and venues often
change; consult the publications and expect to pay between 600Ft and 1000Ft. Useful, too,
are the websites of the Dance House Guild ( www.tanchaz.hu ) and Folkrádió
( www.folkradio.hu ). Among other types of traditional music is klezmer (Jewish folk music);