Pannon Philharmonic

About the Programme

"In this room, playing is a joy! Not only because of the orchestra and the acoustics –although it is also unmatched– but this room has a soul ..." – we hear that every day from our guest artists. How can be that "spirit” perceived? Perhaps unknown to many that the architectural concept of Kodály Centre, which is going to be  five-year-old in December 2015, is based on the Fibonacci sequence, i.e. the sequence of numbers, which implies the ratio of the golden section and can be explored in numerous formations or phenomena of the nature. It is presented in the patterns of unfolding plant leaves and seeds, in spiral shapes found in the human body, such as the DNA or the internal cochlea, and the increasing forms of shells and galaxies. The point is that the relation of the whole to the greater part is precisely the same as the one of that part to the smaller part. This proportion that is–- where consciously, where intuitively–used also in the arts helps to that that "the timeless world looms over the temporal world", as a Hungarian poet, Sándor Weöres said. In December, the Pannon Philharmonic, as the resident orchestra of the Kodály Centre, concentrates on the inspiring mystery of Fibonacci numbers through works of music, mathematics and related art forms –going back to the artistic essence of the building. The main patron of the event is Ferenc Keller, the leading architect of the artists who designed the Kodály Centre.