Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today's famous fiddlers are Russian. By rights they should have been Hungarian. For most of them were pupils of a great Hungarian fiddle teacher who happened to do most of his teaching in Russia: the late Leopold Auer. For many generations Hungary's lazy Danubian capital, Budapest, has been as noted for fine fiddling as for goulash and Tokay. Hardly less famed than expatriate Pedagogue Auer was the late Jenö de Szalatna Hubay, who stayed at home to teach other Hungarian fiddlers how to fiddle. Through aristocratic, white-bearded Hubay's studio passed many...
Four years ago aging Pedagogue Hubay was delighted by the playing of a 13-year-old, mop-headed youngster fresh from the Budapest Conservatory, and decided to take him as a pupil. The youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...
...accuracy and beautiful tone, but for masterly restraint and timing, was born in 1921 in the little Yugoslav mountain resort of Daruvar. When he was six his family moved to Belgrade so that he could study the violin with a local teacher. Four years later he moved on to Budapest...
Meanwhile, Czechoslovak-Hungarian negotiations over the question of secession by Prague of Slovakian but not Ruthenian territory to Budapest concluded last week with an agreement to let the matter be arbitrated jointly by Germany and Italy. The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome to design the basis for this arbitration with Benito Mussolini, onetime hod carrier...
...Amsterdam Congress was attended by about 900 delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...