Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2007 (19. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2007-12-21 / 50. szám
Italo Calvino INVISIBLE CITIES The Great Khan’s atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoé, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria. Kublai asked Marco: “You, who go about exploring and who see signs, cap tell me toward which of these futures the favoring winds are driving us.” “For these ports I could not draw a route on the map or set a date for the landing. At times all I need is a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of light in the fog, the dialogue of two passersby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them. If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop. Perhaps while we speak, it is rising, scattered, within the confines of your empire; you can hunt for it, but only in the way I have said.” Already the Great Khan was leafing through his atlas, over the maps of the cities that menace in nightmares and maledictions: Enoch, Babylong, Yahooland, Butua, Brave New World. He said: “It is all useless, if the last landing place can only be the infernal city, and it is there that, in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us.” And Polo said: “The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.” The Optimist Creed Promise yourself: • To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind • To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. • To make all your friends feel that there is something in them • To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimist come true • To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best • To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own • To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future • To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile • To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have not time to criticize others • To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. From Dr.Richter’s office MIKLÓS ROZSA FILM FESTIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO December 26, 2007 - January 3, 2008 - San Francisco’s historic Castro Theatre is proud to announce the first major film festival in the United States honoring the work of Hungarian born composer, Miklós Rózsa. In his lifetime, Miklós Rózsa won three Academy Awards for Best Motion Picture Score of the year, and garnered sixteen Oscar nominations in a career spanning forty five years in film composition, and sixty years writing or the concert stage. The spectacular, nine-day, seventeen-film festival will begin December 26th, 2007 and run thru January 3rd, 2008. During a sweeping, comprehensive series capturing many of the finest, most memorable motion pictures of Rózsa’s distinguished career, the composer’s daughter, Juliet Rózsa, as well as his granddaughters, will be present for the gala salute which includes proclamations, honors, and tributes from the Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. and a very special in-person declaration from the Mayor of San Francisco representing both the city and her people. A letter from the composer’s daughter, Juliet Rózsa “In this Centennial year of my father’s birth there is a wonderful renaissance of his music which is taking place among young, talented and dedicated musicians both for the music he scored for film and for the concert hall. There is a new generation of musicians, concert goers and film enthusiasts who are being give the opportunity to discover the many facets of my father’s musical “double life”. My family and I want to thank the city of San Francisco, the Castro Theatre and all the other people involved who made this Rózsa film festival possible. It will introduce to many for the first time the music that my father scored so magnificently for the many different genres of film for a period that extended over forty years. We are so very pleased that his musical legacy will continue for many more years to come. My father’s music was greatly influenced by his Hungarian roots especially the Hungarian folk song. As he said in his autobiography, Double Life, “melody means song and song, especially folk song, is the essence of music....my music brings joy ,to people, stimulates pleasure in life and pride in life”. My family and I are so very proud and honored to be able to share a part of my father’s rich Hungarian heritage.” Juliet Rózsa, December, 2007 Dr. Ferenc Somogyi, Ambassador of Hungary to the U.S. issued a Proclamation on the Centennial of Miklós Rózsa’s Birth. Movies featuring the music of MIKLÓS RÓZSA: “Spellbound” (1945) , “Last Embrace” (1979), “The Killers” (1946), “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (1981), “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” (1946) , “Madame Bovary” (1949), “Ben Hur” (1959), “El Cid” (1961), “Ivanhoe” (1952), “Time After Time” (1979), “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” (1970), “Double Indemnity” (1944) , “The Lost Weekend” (1945) , “The V.I.P.s” (1963), “The Story of Three Loves” (1953), “Lust For Life” (1956), “Julius Caesar” (1953), “Knights of the Round Table” (1953), More information on: http:/ /www. castrotheatre. com/plist.html * http://www . huembwas . org/Z_News/RozsaFestival. htm SEASON’S GREETINGS As we approach the time of year When custom blends with my desire To wish you joy and Christmas cheer And happy moments by the fire, My mind alludes to paradoxes With sly, deceitful, cunning foxes And venom-spewing vicious vipers And hatred-fueled, ruthless snipers, Whose evil instincts, filled with ire Invoke God’s name, while they conspire To try to set the world afire. Then I recall those seasoned sages, Who honed their wisdom through the ages And have foreseen the conflagration, Which aims to threaten every nation That wants to rescue human souls With lofty aims and noble goals; Imparting to them freedom’s torch, To teach and heal, but not to scorch. And then I think of childhoods squandered, For, to mature, they should have wondered About the moon-lit, starry skies And rainbow-colored butterflies; And slowly, ever gently find The mystery that hides behind Each snowflake and each grain of sand That’s fashioned by God’s holy hand. But, mesmerized by electronics They’re apt to flunk in “moral phonics” ; Oblivious to zeal and passion, Which was in vogue, in vibrant fashion, Without which this great land of God Would have in vain spilled precious blood; (Make no mistake and make no error!) To save the world from utter terror. Now, greeting a new, hope-filled Season May we not lose sight of the reason! 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