Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2003 (15. évfolyam, 4-49. szám)

2003-01-31 / 5. szám

AMERICAN Hungarian Journal MEDITATIONS by Rev. Bela D. Bonis Ph.D., Em. Prof, of Biomedical Ethics - Cal. State University, Long Beach “We will not live in fear.” President Bush’s statement to the American people attempts to convince us that the way to en­sure that we will not live in fear is to attack Iraq. In other words, -we can live without fear if we exert our power and eliminate the threat of our enemies. Con­trast President Bush’s statement with I John 4:18: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.” Many people think that it is the dramatic, perhaps even overpowering use of violence that is most likely to cast out fear. Within American society, we have tried hard to conquer our fears through security meas­ures, increasingly sophisticated monitoring devices, gated com: munities and the promise of an overpowering use of force. But have these means cast out our fears? Or have they only dimin­ished our capacity for love? The costly character of love that casts out fear when confronted with enemies is apparent forthwith in Jesus’ injunction to “love your enemies”. It is a recognition that the only way to cope with one’s fears faithfully is to learn to overcome those fears through suffering, costly love. No doubt, it is a painful process because we do not turn our eyes from the ne­cessity of confronting the wrong that has bteen done, is being done, and is threatened for the future. I do not pretend for a moment that Saddam Hussein is anything less than evildoer. Still, however, the ultimate question is, “Whom do I love, and what does that love require?” If your answer is, “God is the One whom I love above all, and that love requires that I be willing to suffer even the costs of reaching out to my enemies”, then it be­comes clear what we might learn. We might learn not to live in fear, nay: learn and releam what it means to be shaped by prac­tices that immerse us in the pat­terns of God’s love, patterns that lead us not to Christ uncrucified but to Christ crucified and risen. But has our land, although filled with millions of people claiming to follow the crucified and risen Christ, not yet been grasped by a vision of costly, suffering love - the kind of love that casts out fear? ********************** Zoltán Kocsis in San Francisco By Ann Matrai Jona San Francisco, January 23, 2003 I close my eyes and pretend that I am sitting in the intimate concert hall of the Academy of Music in Budapest. There is a quiet vibration in the air filled with anticipation. The orchestra is tuning and members of the audience are looking for their seats, en­gaged in quiet conversation. Fragments of Hungarian sentences are floating everywhere around me. It all seems so familiar. Yet, the setting is quite different. I open my eyes and realize that I am in the elegant Davies Hall in San Francisco. The musicians of the Hungarian National Philhar­monic Orchestra are already on stage tuning, ready to start one of. the first concerts of their 2-month US tour. The tuning abruptly stops and Music Director Zoltán Kocsis enters the stage. It was more than 20 years ago that I saw him last. He didn’t change much. He has the same playful bounce, the quiet concentration, the passion on his face, the boyish smile. Bartok’s Dance Suite is the first piece on the program. Its five movements are different in style, energy, character and tempo, yet the orchestra shifts with ease between them. Maestro Kocsis’ beats are tight, accurate, and nevertheless passionate. The Bartók piece is a perfect introduction and prelude to what follows as the highlight of the evening, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Maestro Kocsis is at the podium at the energetic start of the con­certo, but after the first couple of beats he quickly sits down and conducts most of the entire concerto from the keyboard. The or­chestra is fully under his control, he never misses a beat, never loses touch with his musicians while focusing on his own playing, which is overflowing with energy and passion. It never ceases to amaze me how an orchestra and soloist can be so much in harmony, so unified, so perfectly tuned to each other. The standing ovation after the piano concerto is no surprise; the applause doesn’t want to stop. We are simply not willing to let Maestro Kocsis off the stage. After the intermission, Dvorak’s rarely played Third Symphony is on the program. A beautiful piece, sweet and soft flowing with melody, somewhat Wagnerian in style. As Maestro Kocsis ex­plained during an interview live on San Francisco’s KDFC 102.1 FM classical music radio station earlier that day, in his opinion, Dvorak, one of his favorites, is undervalued. During the same in­terview he spoke very highly of the receptive audiences in Las Ve­gas and Davis, where the first two concerts were held. I hope he felt the same way about us, the San Francisco audi­ence. 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