GREGORIAN CHANT FROM HUNGARY

Medieval Christmas Melodies from Manuscripts of the 15th century. Schola Hungarica Ensemble; Janka Szendrei, László Dobszay, leaders - So beautiful and relaxing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY PLAYED ON A CIMBALON BY ERZSI GODOR

EXCERPT:

The contemporary "concert" Hungarian version of the cimbalom was created by the aforementioned master Vencel József Schund in the 1870s in Budapest. The body of this instrument, which has a range of four octaves, has the shape of a trapezoid with sides of 140 and 95 centimetres long, on which strings are stretched. The whole is set on feet measuring about 70 centimetres. The instrument produces a distinctive and loud sound, which is produced by hitting metal strings with wooden sticks. The original, smaller and mobile version of the cimbalom from the sixteenth century, known as the kiscimbalom, is still used in the Balkans, Switzerland, Romania, Belarus and the western part of Hungary. This instrument is made almost entirely of pine wood, with a small addition of maple. In contrast to the concert version of Schunda, these cimbaloms are limited in use by professional musicians and usually do not have any metal stiffeners, which results in susceptibility to body deformation.

KURIER - HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL HUNGARIAN INSTRUMENTS

REVISITING THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH'S NATIONALITY ROOMS PROGRAM : HUNGARIAN ROOM

NATIONALITY ROOMS at PITT : UNIVERSITY OF PITTBURGH 

There are many rooms to visit featuring ethnic identities from those nations that were important to immigration to the Steel City.

Excerpt: The Hungarian Room features folk art designs and colors, especially so in the ceiling panels painted by a Budapest artist and sent to Pittsburgh in the 1930's. Repeated tulip patterns abound there and in the furniture's woodcarvings.

The windows show a timeline of Hungarian national birth, from legendary foundations to the seven tribes, all the way to 19th century artistic flowering of Hungarian voices in poetry, painting and music.

CLEVELAND HUNGARIAN MUSEUM

https://clevelandhungarianmuseum.org/ 

I just updated the link on the sidebar where you will find a great many links of Hungarian-American interest.  Run by the Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society, they have come out of Covid-19 and are moving forward. 

Excerpt: We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded two grants by the Hungarian Government through the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management, in support of our efforts to share with the greater community our Hungarian culture and history and the Hungarian immigrant story of Northeast, Ohio.

SLEDDING

 

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL - HUNGARY IS BEAUTIFUL PLAYED ON THE TARAGATO by SANDOR KECSKES

HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE A HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN CHRISTMAS?

Do you continue or include Hungarian traditions into your Christmas time celebrations?

Leave me a comment!

GIFTING

 

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM : LET'S LOOK AT CURRENT EXHIBITS : A COUNTRY FOR WOMEN VIRTUAL TOUR : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #21

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM - A COUNTRY FOR WOMEN

Excerpt:  However, from an archaeological point of view it is exactly women's graves which are more spectacular, richer and more colourful than those of men.  These women - including saints, queens, women and daughters of noble families, women brought in bondage or whose marriage sealed an alliance, and of course mothers intriguing for their children's prosperity - also played a significant role in the transformation of Europe.