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Title of the work

Life Is Not a Highway

Composer
Balogh Máté
Original / Hungarian title
Life Is Not a Highway
Foreign language / English title
Life Is Not a Highway
Subtitle
For reciter, jazz quartet and string orchestra
Dedication
to the Oláh Krisztián Quartet and the ARSO Symphony Orchestra.
Year of composition
2025
Type
Chamber orchestra
Instrumentation
reciter (anche melodica) - sax., pf., cb., drum set - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Text
BALOGH, Máté
Language
English
Premiere information
21 April 2026, Series: Ask the Composer - Passages, Solti Hall, Liszt Academy, Budapest; MÁté Balogh (reciter), Krisztián Oláh (pf.), Kálmán Oláh Jr. (sax.), György Orbán (cb.), Dániel Serei (drum set), ARSO String Orchestra, Fernando Palomeque (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Text by the composer, based on texts from jazz standards