To finish our hour of Hungarian music, Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3. Liszt was imitating the sound of Hungarian gypsy musicians. This spring, the Budapest Festival Orchestra played the piece ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — László Jakab Orsós, the charismatic director of the Hungarian Cultural Center, is not your typical cultural diplomat. In Budapest, he was a newspaper columnist, a lecturer in ...
From an early age, Debi Botos has cultivated an interest in Hungarian Gypsy music (where she was born). Now 26, as a self taught musician, Debi continues to explore and experiment with the sounds of ...
Ferenc Varga is odds-on to enter Hungary’s parliament after Sunday’s election for a party once known for its racist rhetoric – but which, he says, has changed. When the Movement for a Better Hungary, ...
A listening activity that focuses on how traditional, folk, and classical music influence one another, as exemplified by Sarasate's "Gypsy Airs" (Zieguernewisen). On this show 12-year-old Anna JiEun ...