Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2008 (20. évfolyam, 3-51. szám)
2008-10-24 / 43. szám
Invitation to Support and Participate in the n j j h p* Los Angeles County Museum of Art Presents Sundays Live Free Chamber Music Concerts Sundays at 6 pm at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90036 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, November 22-23, 2008 This year, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition will celebrate the 10th biennial Competition. In the past, 210 young musicians competed for the coveted Grand Prize, as well as Special Prizes in the 10 Divisions, respectively. The Grand Prize presents a recital possibility at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. It consists of a $1,000 prize plus an all-expense-paid concert tour, starting with the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Hungarian Cultural Center in London, a recital at the Nixon Presidential Library in Loma Linda, California, and the Opening Concert at the Gyula Music Festival in Hungary. In addition to the Grand Prize we offer Place Prizes 1-2-3-4-5, books, CDs, artwork and private prize offerings for the outstanding performers. The aim of our project is to make the name and music of Franz Liszt well-known among the young, upcoming musicians of the world. Since 1990, we touched thousands of young people’s hearts, from Korea to South Africa, by the beautiful music of Liszt. We also had two young artists competing from Budapest in 2004 and 2006. They both became prize winners and presented recitals in the USA. All of this requires much preparation and a strong financial backing for the two days of non-stop auditions by the 10 internationally acclaimed judges of Master Teachers of piano and vocal artistry. In 2006, the expenses amounted to $50,000 for the Competition. By today’s growing financial demands, we expect the expenses to far surpass those of previous years. At this time, we respectfully ask you or your organization to evaluate our project and consider our accomplishments over the past 20 years. If you find us worthy, please support us with a considerable sum of donation, for the benefit of our young artists, for cultural enlightenment and growth in our wonderful California. On behalf of the Board, sincerely, Judith Nesleny, Director 1527 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 (626) 798-1562 Geraldine Keeling, Director 8260 Youngdale Road, San Gabriel, CA 91775 (626) 286-4593 CONTACT: Bill Vestal, Artistic Director: 323-857-6234, bvestal@lacma.org or visit www.sundayslive.org for updated information. Concerts streamed live on www.lacma.org , and heard by delayed broadcast EACH WEDNESDAY at noon EXCLUSIVELY on KCSN, 88.5 FM. NOVEMBER 2 Rebecca Rust (cello) and Friedrich Edelmann (bassoon), perform Luigi Boccherini: Sonata in C Major, Hans Gál: Divertimento, Opus 90 No. 1, Mozart: Sonata in B-flat Major K. 292, Arthur Frackenpohl: Two American Rags, Max Stern: Songs of Ascents, Shir Hamaalot (2007) and Rossini: Duetto in D Major. This concert sponsored by a generous donation from Sarah and Peter Mandell 9 The Capitol Ensemble: Phillip Levy (violin), Julie Gigante (violin), Victoria Miskolczy (viola), Alma Fernandez (viola) and David Low (cello), perform Brahms: String Quintet in F Major, Opus 88. 16 Nadia Shpachenko (piano), with the Biava Quartet: Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko (violins), Mary Persin (viola) and Jason Calloway (cello), perform Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478 and Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81. 23 The Third and Final Presidential Debate Timothy Ehlen (piano), performs Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Opus 106, “Hammerklavier”. 30 McCain: Obama Not Telling 'Whole Truth' By Andy Barr John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama is still not telling the “whole truth” about his association with 1960’s radical William Ayers despite explaining the relationship during Wednesday’s debate. “Senator Obama didn’t tell the whole truth about his relationship with Mr. Ayers last night,” McCain said in an interview on Fox News. “They served together on boards, together they made a decision to give $230,000 to ACORN, the group that is now being involved in what could be one the great voter frauds in American history.” The Arizona senator also accused Obama of not fully explaining his association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. “He certainly didn’t reveal all of his relationships with ACORN, which his campaign paid $832,000 in the primaries to a front group for ACORN,” McCain said. “And you know what it was described as? ‘Lighting and site preparation’ Give me a break.” “But we know this, that there are allegations of voter fraud by ACORN in every single battleground state. This is a widespread operation. Now we laugh when Mickey Mouse is registered to vote, but we don’t laugh, we don’t laugh, when there are voter rolls filled up with names that there is no authentication whatsoever. This could violate the most fundamental aspect of democracy and that is a free and fair election. Pressed on his associations with Ayers and ACORN during the debate, the Illinois senator chided McCain for making the affiliations the “centerpiece” of his campaign. Of Ayers, Obama said, “Forty years ago, when I was 8 years old, he engaged in despicable acts with a radical domestic group. I have roundly condemned those acts. Ten years ago, he served and I served on a school reform board that was funded by one of Ronald Reagan’s former ambassadors and close friends, Mr. Annenberg.” “Mr. Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in this campaign. And he will not advise me in the White House. So that’s Mr. Ayers.” The Illinois Democrat also dismissed any alleged tie to charges of voter registration fraud conducted by ACORN. “It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved,” Obama said. “The only involvement I’ve had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.” What Joe the Plumber Can't Fix Who is ‘Joe the Plumber’? He is Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came to symbolize the notion of ‘spreading the wealth’ in Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate. By E. J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, October 16, 2008; The Washington Post The moment of truth in last night’s debate came when Bob Schieffer asked the candidates if they would be willing to repeat, face to face, some of the personal charges they have made against each other in their ads and on the trail. At first, John McCain flinched. Instead of answering directly, he suggested that it was Barack Obama who was running the more negative campaign. But eventually McCain launched the attack everyone was waiting for, referring to Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, the ‘60s radical with whom Obama served on a Chicago education board that also included Republican members. Obama calmly noted that his relationship with Ayers was limited and that Ayers would play no role in an Obama administration. But McCain was wound up, and he made the claim that some fraudulent voter registrations Musica Angelica members: Rotem Gilbert (recorder) Alexandra Opsahl (recorder) and Ian Pritchard (harpsichord), perform works to be announced. This concert sponsored by a generous grant from -4he Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. obtained by ACORN - that’s the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - constituted “one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and were “destroying the fabric of democracy.” Ayers, ACORN and Joe the Plumber were the stars of McCain’s effort in the third and final presidential debate to revive a candidacy that has been on the skids ever since the economic crisis hit. (Joe, whose last name is Wurzelbacher and who runs a plumbing business in Ohio, confronted Obama recently at a campaign stop because he didn’t like the idea that Obama would raise his taxes. He’s become a hero on some conservative Web sites.) This trio of attacks almost certainly did McCain good among those whose votes he already has: very conservative Republicans who share Joe’s view that Obama is some kind of socialist. But it’s unlikely that McCain helped himself much with the moderate and middle-class voters who have drifted away from him. He failed to rattle the ever-calm Obama. And it’s hard to see that anything McCain said last night repaired the damage done to his campaign by the economic crisis and his own handling of it. McCain tried hard last night to paint Obama as a big-spending liberal who hangs around with radicals. But ideology may matter less to voters this year than temperament, and in this downturn, conservatism may be even more suspect than liberalism. In assailing Obama from the right, McCain may only have deepened the problems he already has. The English Page of the Hírlap can serve as a bridge between the non-Hungarian-speaking members of the family and the community. Use it to bring people together! Subscribe to the Hírlap! Advertise your business in the Hírlap! If you have any questions or suggestions, please call (323) 463-6376 ADVANCE NOTICE On November 9, 2008 at the United Hungarian House in Los Angeles, Judith Nesleny will present her “1956” Cantata, from a DVD made by Gyula TV on the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revoution and Freedom Fight. The Los Angeles International Liszt Competition will take place on November 22-23, at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa and Trinity United Methodist Church, Pomona, California. Please mark your calendar! Please watch for our ads in the coming weeks! AMERICAN Hungarian Journal Október 24,2008
