Off the Boat and on the Subway: The Hungarian Emigré Experience from a Literary and Musical Viewpoint

Peter Laki, a graduate of the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, has since 1990 been teaching and publishing on music in the USA.

Hungarian Encounters of 65 Years

Andrew Seager, a member of our Society came to Reading as a student in 1939. As an agriculturalist his career has taken him all over the world.

Tradition and Change: Jeno Hubay and the Development of the Hungarian Violin School

John Parsons is a PhD research graduate at Cardiff University. His talk will illustrate changes in the violin technique of the famous Hungarian school. Hubay Jeno Foundation Hubay: Violin Concerto No 3 in G minor(Hyperion Records)

Churchill, Hungary and the Karady Affair

Gabor Ronay is an internationally-reputed author of historical books and a journalist now writing for the Sunday Herald. "...Sir Winston Churchill allegedly had a secret holiday romance with Katalin Karady, the husky-voiced Magyar film actress at a Balaton resort in 1929-1930 ... [T]he article [of Budapest daily Magyar Nemzet] ... offers a wealth of detail and two telling photographs as proof ... [M]y investigations in search of the sources named in the article took me from libraries in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Budapest and Washington..." Magyar Nemzet article Karady's biography, Hiába menekülsz, hiába futsz by Katalin Karády

Otto Orban: The Witching Time of Night

Peter Zollman introduces his translations of the last poems by Otto Orban (1936-2002), one of the greatest Hungarian poets of his generation, recently published by Atlantis-Centaur, Chicago and illustrated by Janos Kass. The poems will be read by the distinguished actor Paul Ridley. Orban's biography Orban's works at Digitalis Irodalmi Akademia