Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2002 (14. évfolyam, 4-45. szám)

2002-06-07 / 23. szám

AMERICAN Hungarian Journal MEDITATIONS by Dr. Bela Bonis Pastor (562) 430-0876 First Hungarian Reformed Church, Hawthorne Some time ago the New York Times ran this headline in its science section: "Before the Big Bang There Was... What?" The article surveyed cos­­mologists, those who study the whole physical universe and generate a plethora of theories about how the world came to be, what keeps it going, and what’s going to happen in the future. At times such specula­tions come tantalizingly close to being religious; in fact, the cosmologists’ language echoes the Book of Genesis, where God made the world out of nothing at all. But theologians have the advantage - and disad­vantage - of revelation. This is an advantage because it pro­vides the transcendent refer­ence for the questions about what there was before the world was made. Revelation is a disadvantage, however, if we let it shut down our wonder. When we take Scripture too literally 'or one-dimensionally, we reduce God to the images we have constructed in our own minds. The images become "mental idols" that distract us from the mystery of the Living God. Trinity Sunday is a great feast in which to honor that Holy Mystery that Christians call God the Holy Trinity. In the Gospel according to Mat­thew, Jesus commands his fol­lowers to baptise all nations in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. In Christian faith, God is revealed as triune, that is, known in three ways. On the feast of the Trinity, let us pray God to ex­pand our imaginations to tanta­lize us with wonder, to urge us to contemplate who and how God was before "the Big Bang". The triune God is no dispas­sionate unmoved mover, no rugged individualist. Rather, God the Holy Trinity is active love, always outgoing, always receiving. This love spills over to create heaven and earth, then continues to create and shape the world. When crea­tures who are gifted as the image and likeness of God misuse love, corrupting what God made good, then the love of God goes to them to heal them. God became human in order to redeem'the confusion and destructiveness of human beings. And now that the his­torical Jesus has reentered eternity, ascended into heaven, he sends the Holy Spirit to live within us and among us to sus­tain the work of redemption and healing until that time - out of time - when God will be all in all. oBocacaaBöBocaoasD Christoph von Dohnany, Music Director of the Cleveland Opera, Speaks Out By James R. Oestreich, Zurich With a seemingly endless wave of appointments of prospec­tive music directors at major American orchestras finally com­pleted can a wave of long goodbyes be far away? Several incum­bent maestros are in fact already taking lingering leave of their orchestras. The New York Philharmonic is deep into a season largely devoted to honorig Kurt Masur. Seiji Ozawa, in transition from the Boston Symphony to the Vienna State Opera, was glimpsed on international television conducting the New York concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic. The Cleveland Orchestra completed its search long ago, an­nouncing in 1999 that Franz Welser-Möst would succeed Chris­toph von Dohnanyi as music director. The time came, and Mr. Dohnanyi, after a happy marriage of almost two decades with the orchestra, lead it in a gala tribute concert pairing Richard Strauss’s "Metamorphosen" with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Then, in three concerts in January, he made his final Carnegie Hall appearances as the orchestra’s music director. Christoph von Dohnany (N.Y. Times) Mr. Dohnanyi, 72 will conclude his illustrious tenure in June with a tour of Europe, where the orchestra has been ecstatically received over the last decade. But not every bow on the pack­age will be so neatly knotted. The performance of Wagner’s "Siegfried" that ended the orchestra’s regular season, in May at Severance, left unfinished a saga within the Dohnanyi story. The Carnegie programs were typical of Mr. Dohnanyi’s brac­ing approach to repertory, mingling classics with more contem­porary fare: Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 5,7 and 9 with works by Sibelius Lutoslawski, Wolfgang Rihm, Harrison Birtwistle and György Kurtag. Encountered recently in Zurich, where he was crossing paths with Mr. Welser-Möst at the Zurich Opera, Mr. Dohnanyi ap­peared in lights both familiar and unfamiliar from experiences with him in Cleveland. It was odd, for example, at an early re­hearsal of Strauss’s "Schweigsame Frau," to sense a certain fatalism in his attempts to draw plush playing from an orchestra of considerably less polish than he is used to. On the other hand, it was altogether characteristic that the broad philosophical bent in his personality dominated conversa­tion over lunch at his hotel on the Zürichsee. "All this talk of getting back to normal," he said of the Sep­tember terrorist attacks." What’s normal is now. What was not normal was before. This is the reality of our world. It’s the same experience all over, but here in Europe the experience of being vulnerable has existed for hundreds of years. People have somehow become used to living with it." Mr. Dohnanyi comes by his lofty political pronouncements rightly. As he grew up in Nazi Germany, his family was active in the resistence. His mother, Christine Bonhoeffer, was im­prisoned. His father, Hans von Dohnanyi, a prominent jurist who helped Jews escape execution and played a central role in a plot to kill Hitler, was tortured and hanged shortly before the Russians took Berlin in 1945. Three of the maestro’s uncles, in­cluding the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was also his godfather, were similarly executed. "This is not just a question of fighting terrorism," Mr. Doh­nanyi said of the present situation. "This is a milestone in his­tory, like Hitler and Napoleon. What we’re finding is that there can’t be economic globalization without human and spiritual globalization. We have to look for the causes of things. If you assume that human beings are not bad in themselves, then some­­thing must have gone totally wrong."________________________ American Hungarian Foun­dation's Awards Ceremony The Hungarian American community met at Stanford University on Sunday, May 26, to present the American Hungarian Founda­tion's (AHF) 2002 awards in N. California to two famous econo­mists of Hungarian origin: to Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Milton Friedman and Dr. Tibor Scitovsky. Dr. Friedman attended the luncheon at the Stanford Faculty Club, but Dr. Kevin Wright, head of the Stanford Dept, of Eco­nomics, accepted the prize on behalf of Dr. Scitovsky, who was un­able to participate due to health reasons. The AHF is celebrating its 47th year of establishment of the Foundation and the 13th year of opening of its Museum in New Brunswick, NJ. PHOTO CREDITS - LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Gavin Wright, Head, Stanford Department of Economics, Dr. Kenneth E. Scott, Professor of Law, Stanford University, Dr. Eva Voisin, Hon. Consul of Hungary, Mrs. Milton Friedman, Dr. Milton Friedman, Lincoln Award recipient, Professor August Molnár, AHF President, Congresman Ernie Könnyű Canada to Train Hungary’s Air Force Pilots (BUDAPEST SUN) The Chiefs of Staff of the Hungarian and Canadian armed forces signed a deal which will see Hungarian fighter pilots trained in Canada. Like many other countries with a small air force, Hungary lacks modern training aircraft and facilities, so the recent deal signed with Sweden for the delivery of 14 BAE-SAAB Gripen fighters, one of the most advanced fighter planes available today, meant that the Hungarian Air Force had to look abroad for pilot training. 20 newly recruited Hungarian pilots will attend the two-year Canadian training course, Hungarian Chief of Staff Lajos Fodor said at a press conference in Budapest. Fodor added that by 2005 these pilots will go on to fly Gripens after attending additional training courses specific to that aircraft in Sweden. He also announced that seven of the 20 trainees will train to become instructors themselves, and several will also train to fly helicopters in addition to fast jets. Chief of the Air Force General Imre Balogh said the pilots would first attend and 11-week language course, then eight months of pilot training, where they will receive initial instruc­tion in T-6 trainers and later the Hawk 115, one of the most advanced jet fighter-trainers in the world. Six or seven will go on to be Gripen pilots. The 15 pilots who will first fly the Gripens, when they are delivered to Hungary in 2005, had already been appointed and will only need to attend an aircraft conversion course in Sweden, Balogh said. Hungarian pilots will receive training in Canada over the next 17 years. In 2003 11 young Hungarian pilots from the initial group of 20 will go to Canada, and during 2004 the remaining nine will join them. LISZT FESTIVAL, Washington, D.C. From left to right: Geraldine Keeling, Jay Hershberger, a lady from the Embassy, Ambassador & Mrs. Géza Jeszenszky, Judith Nesleny and Dr. Thomas Mastroianni, President of the American Liszt Society. 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