Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2010 (22. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2010-07-02 / 26. szám

Hungarian Journal Eduardo Diamante Eduardo graduated from the revered conservatory „Teatro Colon” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied vocal technique, music and acting. He joined the Teatro Colon Opera Company and stayed with them for five consecutive years. Eduardo was a winner at the Richard Wagner Vocal Competition with Walther’s “Prize Song” form Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger”. That gave him the opportunity to do several concerts in other important Argentinean cities. In this country, he performed his show “Around the World in 80 Minutes” with popular and classical international songs, also Broadway show tunes. He also performed and toured with such celebrities as Bob Hope, Dick Shawn, Shecky Greene, Rodney Dangerfield, Pat Cooper and Jackie Mason, to name just a few, in theaters and showrooms in New york, Atlantic City, and Canada. In 1986, after having performed on Princess Cruises “Love Boat”, he traveled to Europe to perform in Monte Carlo, Paris, Munich, Madrid and London. Presently he is performing at the Csardas Hungarian Restaurant in Hollywood, Friday nights 6 to 10 pm. BaSWW8| Around the World with International Singer EDUARDO DIAMANTE with Danny Guerrero & Orchestra and special guest Eduardo is a polished performer who sings with much feeling combining rare musical and linguistic talent with professional show­manship! Miami Beach Times * * * Eduardo is an extremely talented international singer. Ovation is the word for this fine entertainer. Panorama, Catskills NY * * * Songs in Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Hebrew and Armenian. Also Broadway favorites and Opera. See his performance at the CSÁRDÁS Hungarian Restaurant 5820 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038 * Phone: (323) 962-6434 Friday Nights 6 pm to 10 pm 2 segments, with dance music before and after the show Masterpieces of Zsolnay Ceramics on View in series of exhibitions throughout Hungary. “We wanted to celebrate the completion of the restoration of the magnificent Zsolnay grés (a very hard, compact ceramic compound) railings and inner decorations of the hall of our building, by holding the exhibition of Zsolnay wares from the Pécs Factory here,” said Szilvia Bába, marketing director of the Magyar Kultúra Alapítvány (Hungarian Cultural Founda­tion) where over 100 Zsolnay ceramic wares are attracting a host of admiring visitors. The huge building, across from Mátyás Templom on Castle Hill (whose shiny new Zsolnay roof has also just been renovated), was once the Ministry of Finance, badly damaged in the Second World War. The over 100 ceramics - an array of cache pots, vases, plates, figurines, and such extras as jewellry and an art nouveau fireplace - are tastefully arranged in cases around the large inner hall, whose Zsolnay interior is a fitting background for the large, comprehensive exhibition. The strange sinuous forms, brilliant colours and glazes captivate people, as they did the Sultan of Oman years ago. “The Sultan was captivated by the round box, whose original he saw in Pécs, and immediately ordered 3 of them, as well as other replicas, declares the Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt. spokeswoman Ibolya Kabok. “We had a problem replicating the intricate pierced and transparent glazed technique, covered with tiny jewel-like dots, because of lack of documentation of the original methods used, but we worked at it and the Sultan was most pleased with the result.” The jewel technique round box was designed by Zsolnay family member Taddeus Sikorski back in the 1880s. In a very considered marketing effort to enhance its business, the Zsolnay Factory has assembled an array of the factory’s most successful classic designs, copied them, and scheduled them to travel throughout the country. In conjunction with the exhibitions, the objects can be purchased at five outlets of the elite Haas & Czjzek stores - comparable to Williams Sonoma in the US - where exclusive wedding lists can be ordered, and pricey gifts bought. The Zsolnays at Haas & Czjzek fill over seven cases in the store. “We have the ‘Treasures of the Sultan of Oman’ in a special case upstairs,” ven­tured the very helpful store manager. The price of the Sultan’s box is a whopping HUF 1,635,500 (EUR 5,850). The exhibition will be shown in Kecskemét to 11 July; Balaton­­fiired at the Vaszary Villa from 24 July - 8 August; Szeged at the Somogyi Könyvtár 11 August - 5 September; Kaposvár, at the Rippl Rónai Museum 10 September - 10 October; and finishing off in Pécs, Július 2,2010 ÍD the European Cultural Capital for 2010. from 10 November - 17 December. Treaty of Trianon Remembered Would It Be Possible for an International Treaty to Cede American Territory to China, Canada and Mexico? What a preposterous question! American citizens would justifiably never take that seriously. If a poll were taken to gauge the possibility of losing two-thirds of their country, most Americans would probably shrug it off as a bad and tasteless joke. Sadly, such an eerily similar irrational concept became a true nightmare for millions of Hungar­ian citizens after the tragic dictates of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. Millions of Hungarians woke up on June 5, 1920 only to realize they were no longer a citizen of the country in which they were born. This nightmare became their reality. Imagine being forced to learn a lan­guage not native to your own culture without ever moving to a different country. Imagine being called homeless in your own home and nation­less in a place your family had lived for over a thousand years. In the ashes of World War One, millions of Hungarian citizens woke up one day to discover that they had no ability to exercise their own right to self-determination. Just imagine the absurdity of this reality! Past Treaty of Trianon commemoration in front of the UN building Ninety years have passed since the Treaty of Trianon was signed. According to the research of the World Federation of Hungarians, during the subsequent decades following the Treaty of Trianon, hun­dreds of thousands of Hungarian families had been forcibly uprooted and countless lives had been destroyed. Decades before the atroci­ties committed during the Yugoslav Wars made the phrase ‘ethnic cleansing’ and cultural genocide infamous, thousands of indigenous ethnic Hungarian villages were destroyed without mercy including birth records, and tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians were killed for the crime of simply existing. Over the past ninety years regional regimes of many colors and ideologies rose and fell and, regardless of the respective dictator’s name, Hungarians continued to suffer dis­crimination and shame. After the fall of Communism in 1989 there was a moment of hope that would end this nightmare. Millions of Hungarians took a deep breath hoping for the miracle of peace and self-determination. The past twenty years was supposed to offer a new opportunity to review all injustices including those committed against ethnic Hungarians in a democratic and open manner. In spite of several inadequate attempts to quell anti-Hungarian sentiment, the anticipated miracle never happened. June fourth was a day of mourning for Hungarians all across the world. American-Hungarians offered a symbolic gesture of solidarity to voice our concern of this ongoing and unfair neglect towards all ethnic Hungarians who still suffer discrimination. Many would ask how something which occurred so long ago could still have relevance today. In the 21st century Hungarians continue to suffer discrimination at the hands of chauvinistic politi­cians and callous racists. The Slovakian government officially fines ethnic Hungarians for using their native language and stripping them of their citizenship. Serbians repeatedly beat and harass Hungarians because of their ethnic identity, and Romania is incapable of recog­nizing the cultural autonomy of over 1.5 million Hungarians living in Transylvania. This ongoing nightmare has not ended and the absur­dity has not changed. The World Federation of Hungarian’s research indicates that The European Union (EU) was supposed to offer tools to help solve these conflicts. It was assumed that membership in the EU would offer all nationalities a sense of harmony and peace under the protection and security of a united continent, yet countless atrocities towards ethnic Hungarians are systematically ignored. The EU continually refuses to openly acknowledge discrimination toward Hungarians and silently accepts racist political ideologies like the Benes Decrees, which was directly responsible for the forced migrations and mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians and Germans alike. Cul­tural and even political autonomy is the norm in Western Europe, but for some strange reason this right does not seem to apply to Hungarian minorities living within the Carpathian Basin. DUNA Travel 8530 Holloway Dr. #102 W. 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