Hungarian Heritage Review, 1986 (15. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1986-01-01 / 1. szám
JANUARY 1986 HUNGARIAN HERITAGE REVIEW 7 Fischer, who with Jeno Jando as piano soloist, presented a concert featuring the “Les Preludes" and the “Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Flat" by Franz Liszt. The day after this brilliant performance, Farleigh Dickinson University hosted a concert by the prize-winning Eder String Quartet of Budapest. If this keeps up much longer, everybody is going to get so tired and so financially drained out that they will not be able to support domestic theatrical groups with their attendance. Enough is enough, already! NEW YORK, N.Y. - The American Hungarian Foundation, which is building a multi-milliondollar “Hungarian Heritage Center" in New Brunswick, New Jersey, recently held its Annual George Washington Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here. Award Medallions were presented to Dr. Tibor Fabian, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute; Dr. György Kepes, the Author, Painter, Educator, and former Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Hungary during the period 1944-45, who is a “Hero of the Holocaust" and who, by an Act of Congress, is an Honorary Citizen of the United States of America. The Chairman of the Awards Dinner Committee of the well-attended, “white tie" affair was Maestro Antal Dorati and its Co-Chairman was Mrs. Elizabeth Kasser. Information about the Foundation's various activities and programs, as well as about its “Hungarian Heritage Center" project, is available from Dr. August J. Molnár, President, American Hungarian Foundation, 177 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 (Tel: 201-846-5777). CLEVELAND, OHIO — Here is a new twist on Hungarian poetry! László Horvath set one of László Könnyu’s poems about the late Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty to music and his score was introduced here by an orchestra under the direction of Emőke Tapolyai. You can order a copy of this work for $3.00 from the Summit Music Publishing Company, 10 Nassau Drive, Summit, New Jersey 07901. DETROIT, MICHIGAN - The Reverend Julian Fuzer, who was the Pastor of the St. Ladislaus R.C. Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for many years before his reassignment to Detroit and who is presently engaged in research work leading towards the canonization of the late Cardinal Mindszenty, has issued an appeal to all Hungarians with personal knowledge of, or in possession of memorabilia relating to, the Hungarian Primate’s life to get in touch with him. His address is: Reverend Julian Fuzer, 8423 South St, Detroit, Michigan 48209. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - The Hungarian community in the “City of the Angels” is looking forward to an unusual visit. Two talented and enterprising ladies from Hungary, it seems, have gone into a very unusual business, decorating railroad stations. Now, they’re booked to present their artistic talents before audiences throughout the U.S. and will be arriving in Los Angeles sometime this Fall or Winter, and what they are going to show is how they decorate railroad stations Kalocsa-style. Maybe, they should consider selling their idea to the City of New York, which can certainly use some decorating in it’s subway system! QUEENS, N.Y. — A former Hungarian Freedom Fighter, Charles Barber, got so riled up about the “lemon" he bought from a local Volkswagen dealer that, to publicize his frustration with it, he dressed it with lemons, sign-painted it with “It’s not a car, it’s a lemon", and then parked the vehicle in front of the dealer’s place of business. Now the dealer, whose ire was aroused by such Hungarian Freedom Fighter tactics, is suing Barber for $200,000 for damages to him caused by the bad publicity and for libel. Sandord Schlitt, the plaintiff, claims that the car he sold to the Hungarian “is not a lemon, it’s a 1980 Rabbit" and that just because its engine needs some minor work done on it, “the mad man wants us to pay for the whole thing.” Meanwhile, the mad Hungarian is standing pat. He is not about to budge. “This is only the second time in my life I stood up against something,” he said. The first time, of course, was in 1956. EDITOR’S NOTE: If you should spot any “news" about Hungarians, or about Hungarian activities, in your local newspaper please clip it out and send it on to us. Your cooperation would be greatly appreciated.
