The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)

1985-03-01 / 3. szám

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in by someone. The incertion is different from the original writing. The article also mentioned that friends of Weissmullers in Chicago knew that Johnny was born in Banat. Johnny's mother worked at the German athletic club where the future champion learned to swim, and seemingly the origin of Tarzan’s famous howling also goes back to the German club where the yodel was practiced frequently by the members.

HUNGARIAN PERFORMERS IN THE KENNEDY CENTER

JANOS STARKER celebrated his 60th birthday by performing with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center.

Starker is one of the worlds most famous cellists. He was born in Budapest in 1924. He was an “infant prodigy’’; he played the cello at the age of six. At the age of twenty he became the first cellist of the Opera House and the Budapest Concert Orchestra.

Starker came to the USA in 1948. He played in Dallas Symphony Orchestra before becoming a cellist of the Metropolitan Opera where he played until 1953. During his tenure in the Metropolitan the conductor was FRIGYES REINER, another Hungarian. When Reiner, one of the most renown conductors, took over the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he took with him Starker to Chicago. In 1959, Starker accepted an invitation from Indiana University, Indiana and became a music professor.

During his rising career he performed in countless presentations in many parts of the world and produced several records. His performance is frequently compared with the art of Pablo Casals. His is the author of several textbooks about the art of playing the stringed instruments. Starker is the proud owner of a cello made by the Venetioan M attero Gofriller in 1706, which is one of the most prized cellos.

ANDRAS SCHIFF, the young Hungarian artist performed as solo pianist in the Beethoven concert of the National Symphony Orchestra. The audience in the almost packed Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center showed warm appreciation for the excellent performance.

Schiff was born in Budapest in 1953. He played piano at the age of five. He studied at the concervatories of Budapest and London. He toured in Europe and in the Far-East countries and performed with great success in Edinburgh, Page 8

KALMAN CSAPÓ: MASTER OF THE GAME

There is something in the jut of Kalman Csapo’s jaw that says, “Winner!’’

Csapó, born in Hungary in 1945 and now an American citizen, is Head Coach and General Manager of the Pennsylvania Stoners Professional Soccer Team. As such he led the team from a relatively undistinguished standing in the league to the position of finalist in the 1983 National Soccer Championships. This accomplishment is typical of Csapos skill and dedication.

As Head Coach of the Rutgers University soccar team, the Scarlet Knights, Csapó began with a team that had achieved only a 2-9-1 record. When he left Rutgers in 1980, after a tenure of five years, the Knights were ranked fourth

Salzburg and Vienna Festivals. He also recorded several albums.

/Washingtoni Krónika/

Kodály: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8;

Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7--------------(Jerry Grossman, cello; Daniel Phillips, violin; Nonesuch). Except for the Harp Janos Suite and perhaps the choral Psalmus Hungaricus, Zoltán Kodaly’s music is not much heard today, only 16 years after his death. It is his contemporary, friend and colleague, Bela Bartók, who seems to have won the Hungarian seat in the 20th century pantheon of great composers. But Kodaly’s music, while less frankly adventurous than Bartok’s, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well. The fiery Duo (1914), full of rich and varied strong sonorities, gets a passionate reading from Phillips, who has a flourishing chamber-music career, and Gorssman, a Chicago Symphony cellist. Even better is the brooding Sonata (1915), which employs just about every string-writing trick there is, including left-hand pizzicato and scordatura (nonstandard tuning). As close to technical impossibility as a piece can be and still remain playable, the Sonata is a 20th century masterpiece that deserves to be known by all music lovers, not just cellists. Grossman’s performance, while not as pyrotechnical as, say, Janos Starker’s captures all the work’s quintessentially Hungarian soulfulness.

among the college soccer teams of the tristate area.

Leaving Trenton State College with a degree in Special Education, but with a distinguished record as a college and highschool soccer star, Csapó soon moved into the professional track. In 1968 he played for the Washington Whips in the American Soccer League.

Csapo’s background as an educator has always influenced his career as a soccer player and coach. His guidence of those who needed particular care and attention, including the mentally retarded, gave him the patience and understanding which can be of great importance to anyone who has to come into contact with the young, whether athletes or not. Also, Csapo’s career in teaching math, english, science, and physical education, as well as in counseling personal problems, has always stood him in good stead.

For Csapó, playing has constantly been related to coaching and teaching. For this reason, he was particularly pleased by his service on committees for the Intercollegiate Soccer Coacnes ot America. Here he and other college coaches were able to observe up-and-coming young soccer players and to help develope them into world class competitors. It is this dedication of Kalman Csapó to more them just his own team and his own position that marks him among his peers. For he continues to be a teacher and advisor to the young. In this way, Csapó feels, he is indicating his recognition of the opportunities given him by his adopted country. He is able to demonstrate the truth that personal success is always enriched by lending a hand to others so that they, too, may achieve their own destinies.

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