The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1985-05-01 / 5. szám
This is Tennstedt’s Leonore, this is Vicker’s Leonore. That is the teamwork. I don’t like I am the big, on the top and all the rest. I don’t like. We work together.” Nevertheless, the dramatic soprano is a unique being. “There’s only one [Birgit] Nilsson, one [Renata] Tebaldi, one [Zinka] Milanov, and so, you know, I will also be one.” There are very few others of Marton’s range singing today: “Yes, but it’s not my problem. My husband told me, I am alone. I sing...Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Beethoven. And I hope a long time I can do. I have wonderful future.” This wonderful future came from a somewhat difficult past. Hungary was devastated during World War II, and her parents lost all they had. “No, that is not important in this moment,” Marton said. “It was very hard for them, after the war, because they had to start all over again. But I didn’t feel too much.” “I was very glad, I was child, I didn’t know how many money had my father, my mother, it was no important. Just so I saw I must go forwards. But I think it is not so important. This was no miserere. I had one [pair of] shoes; it was okay. I had my first shoe when I was 6 years old. Yes.” And she laughed. “I’m sorry; we didn’t have any, in Hungary, new shoes after the war. It’s no important.” Music made the child happy. “I was very, very little girl, I was 5 years old, I heard from the rundfunk, the radio, wonderful voice to sing, and I love it. I don’t know why. When I sang, I was very glad, I was very happy.” She took piano lessons at first, “but I saw, after three or four years, I was so nervous, I couldn’t play piano.” She is never nervous when singing: “On the stage I can’t be nervous. It’s my life, I live for it. Yes, I just want to show how I can sing, how I can tell you this and this and this. It’s no big mysterious. The big things are always the simple things.” And yet singing is not the only thing this singer lives for. "I like to live, I’m sorry, with my children. It’s too much, just opera and just music. My life plays not just on the stage, you know...I don’t want to be a bitter singer and have nothing. I’m a humem being, not a singing machine.” While Marton was speaking, her husband, Zoltán, came into the bar, tall and blond, wearing a dark, doublebreasted blazer. A surgeon back home in Hamburg, he and their two children, Zoltán, 17, and Diana, 9 had come to the United States for a two-week vacation. Page 8 We are sorry the Hungarian Catholics of Columbus, Ohio picture was turned around in our last issue. Members of the congregation at the Anniversary Service: isi row: Pedro and Pedrito Koe- Krompecher, Krisztina and Ilona Jankovich, Zoltán Homonnay; 2nd row: Mrs. Margaret Janvary, Mrs. Margaret Chichka, Rose Pinter and Joseph Pinter; 3rd row: Mrs. Emőke Gajary, Mrs. Julius Felszeghy, Mrs. Anna Zsoldos, Irene Dalmy, Reverend Eugene Megyer, Mrs. László Palkuti, Mrs. Elisabeth Kardoss; 4th row: Mrs. Gabriella Palkuti, Mrs. Joseph de Jolsvay, Mrs. Ildikó Nemeth, Mr. George Csiky, Mr. Bela Zsoldos, Mr. Levente Homonnay, Mrs. Ildikó Temesvary (her face partly hidden), Mrs. István Martonhegyi, Mr. László Barlay, Mrs. Jolán Kocsis, Dr. P.O. Koe-Krompecher, Mrs. Isabel G. Koe-Krompecher (Gundel), Mrs. Magdolna Homonnay, Mr. István Jankovich, Mrs. Agnes Jankovich, Mr. Alex Kardoss. Present on the 10th Anniversary Mass were, but not on the picture: Mrs. Paul Bodish, with daughter Sheila (Bodish) Ewing, Mr. Edie Ewing, Mr. István Gajary, Miss Ada and Miss Nicol Kardoss, Alexander S. II and Elisabeth Kocsis, Mrs. Isabel Vargo, Dr. Alexander Kocsis, who took the photo. “We are going to Florida, Orlando. I show my children Orlando and Disney World. For my family,” Marton said. Later she inquired about the interviewer’s own young child. “Oooh,” she laughed, with a mother’s giggle. “Just little. He moves,” and she laughed harder. “I know, terrible, wonderful. My first, you know, my son was very wild. And he didn’t stop, you know, but through door, through the walls. Didn’t stop.” And Eva Marton, who can enthrall a packed, 4,000-seat opera house with a single quiet note, laughed long and loudly, thinking of her children./ Copyright 1984, Newsday, Inc. Reprinted by permission. NEWARK, N.J. - The 19-year-old, Newark Boys Chorus, comprised of teenage, black students, has been invited by the All-China Youth Federation to perform in Peking, Xian, Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Their repertoire will include Chinese folk songs, several songs from the American musical theater, and HUNGARIAN FOLK SONGS! * * * SARASOTA, FLORIDA - This beautiful resort and all-year-round, resort community has become a magnet for prominent Hungarians from all over the United States and Canada. It was recently reported that about 20,000 Hungarians reside, full-time or part-time, within the St. Petersburg-Sarasota area. This must be true, because Hungarian clubs, churches, organizations, restaurants, as well as Hungarian-owned motels are sprouting up all over the place like mushrooms after a fine Spring rain. The Eighth Hungarian Tribe with subscribers in every State of the Union and Canada. T ., Eighth Hungarian J ribe
