The Eighth Tribe, 1978 (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1978-04-01 / 4. szám
April, 1978 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 15 music plays. Beautiful music. Beautiful melodies. More beautiful melodies. Happiness reigns. There is contentment. Toward the end the tone poem portrays again the jubilation and burning energy of the Magyars with lively, fast, presto music. Presto ... Until... Until the very end when all is restful, peaceful, calm... The music ... the music becoming softer and softer and slower and slower — poco a poco piu lento. Poco a poco piu lento. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Pocahontas, Tazewell County, Virginia, December 1, 1909 of immigrant Hungarian parents, Joseph, Sr., and Maria Toth. Father a coal miner. Occupations: coal miner, home improvement house-to-house canvasser and salesman, musician, teacher (Puerto Rico, South Dakota Indian Reservation, Budapest, Hungary, where he gave private English lessons and taught at Baron Joseph Eötvös Collegium; New York City, Miami Beach, Florida, and Pocahontas, Virginia) ; radio time salesman (WHIS, Bluefield, West Virginia, 1950-1955). At Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., played in College Symphony Orchestra (was also student assistant director of symphony orchestra), Fairmont State Teachers College Band, Fairmont, W. Va., (also student assistant director), Concord State Teachers College Band, Athens, West Virginia (also student assistant director and student director), director and player there (clarinet and saxophone) of first official Concord State Teachers College Dance Orchestra (1932-33). Player and director of Hungarian Dance Orchestra in Pocahontas. Joseph Erdélyi, Jr. has written over one hundred songs (lyrics and music in Hungarian and English) and concert pieces. For the “Hungarian Fantasy”, he received a “Hungarian Nobel Prize”, a bronze medal, from the Hungarian Árpád Academy of Cleveland, Ohio. This piece was written for the tárogató (“Hungarian clarinet”), which he plays. All of the songs and composition he has played (and sung) in concerts before audiences across the country. On the performing arts scene he has also had two small parts in two motion pictures in New York City; one, a 65-minute documentary film about New York City festivals, in which he sings one of his four versions of the Star-Spangled Banner and another, a Spanish language movie, a regular full length feature picture, in which he plays'the part of a street vendor, selling flags in Central Park.-o-Agoston Haraszty’s Vinery Resurrected in Wisconsin In a 119-year-old winery at the foot of Sugarloaf Hill on the east bank of the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin’s first vintage wine of this century is about to take its maiden bow — more than a century after Hungarian Count Ágoston Haraszthy first grew grapes there. It’s a careful blend of French hybrids Aurore and Seyval, and Riesling, lovingly aged in Nevers oak. Call it Sugarloaf White, vintage 1975. The entire production of Wisconsin’s first homegrown wine since 1899 totals only 420 bottles, but Robert and JoAnn Wollersheim are proud of each and every one. The Wollersheims have taken over where the Germans Peter and Jacob Kehl — who followed Count Haraszthy to the vineyards — left off at the turn of the century. “From the first time we saw it, it was like a fairy tale,” said the black-bearded Wollersheim, an engineer with the university’s Space Science and Engineering Center in Madison. “We saw it and decided we wanted to buy it.” “We learned that Count Haraszthy came here in 1847 and planted his first vines,” said Mrs. Wollersheim, 36, who conducts daily tours of the winery. “He built a cave in the side of the hill, and he lived in the cave along with the barrels of wine he made. “But his grapes were too fragile, and the Wisconsin winters were too severe. In 1849 he gave up and went to California, where he is credited with developing the wine industry in the United States. All that remains of Count Haraszthy’s contribution to Wisconsin winemaking is the 40-foot limestone cave, and one bottle of wine the Wollersheims keep in a glass case. Visiting Hours to view the Crown of St. Stephen in Hungary. In case some of our readers will visit Hungary this summer — their plan should include a visit to the National Museum to see the Hungarian Crown Jewels. Visiting Hours: Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p. m. Thursday 12 noon till 8:00 p. m. Get the Facts on SOLAR HEATING! ... It is time to think about converting your present heating unit to include SOLAR HEATING. A 160 page book with valuable information for homeowners, builders and architects. ’ENERGY BOOM and SOLAR HEATING” Price $4.00 — including Postage To order make checks payable to: Sunwall Inc. Publications, c/o Bethlen Press, Inc. P.O. Box 637
