We'll discuss the history and folk play as a genre and also, The Undesirable by Ede Tóth. We'll look at silent film music from a musician's point of view, and discuss the musical concept behind The Undesirable; the style, arrangement and thematic order, which I will illustrate with audio samples, videos and photographs.
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Attila Pacsay He started playing the trumpet, trombone and piano at the age of seven and by ten he already knew he wanted to become a composer. After finishing his studies at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest he started working as a freelancer. In the beginning he wrote music for theaters and radio stations and rewrote and arranged pieces for symphonic and chamber orchestras. He started teaching at MOME in 2001, and scored animations for world-renowned directors, such as the Oscar nominee Ferenc Rófusz, Ferenc Czakó and Géza M.Tóth. The first feature he worked on was the American-Hungarian co-production Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks in 2013, during which he had the chance to work with Hollywood stars such as Gena Rowlands, Rita Moreno, Jacki Weaver and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. Since then he wrote original scores for The Exile (2014), Fever at Dawn (2015), The Carer (2016), Budapest Noir (2017), Trezor (2018) and Tall Tales (2019) which earned him further international awards and recognition. Besides composing film scores, Pacsay remains active in other areas of the music scene by scoring the New Year's Eve program for the Hungarian State Opera or by writing a piece for the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra and arranging music for legendary Hungarian guitar player, Tibor Tátrai. |