On June 6, Félix Lajkó, a self-taught musician who fuses folk, jazz, Gypsy, and Jewish klezmer to create a style all his own, will perform with the violist Antal Brasnyó at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. The concert is part of the River to River Festival Summer Stars Series and is produced in part with Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS.
On June 15, the Hungarian chef András Hernádi will teach a cooking class at the French Culinary Institute. Hernádi, who is Executive Chef of the Hungarian Consulate General in New York City, will show participants how to prepare a three-course meal that includes delicate poached fish and nokedli dumplings, duck with plum-chutney filled pancakes, and a classic dessert of light, fluffy Tokaj wine clouds.
On the same day, an exhibition of photographs of Jewish life in Hungary between 1870 and 1940 at the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center For The Arts will be the subject of a discussion between the gallery's curator, András Koerner, and Ivan Sanders of Columbia University.
Award-winning Hungarian director Tamás Ascher and the József Katona Theatre will bring their interpretation of Ivanov, set in the Hungary of the 1960s and 1970s, to the Lincoln Center Festival between July 7 and 11. Ivanov will make its US premiere at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven on June 24-27.
Hungary's Béla Pintér and Company will put on their production of The Beggar's Opera at the Lincoln Center Festival between July 21 and 26. Pintér has placed the piece in the Hungarian countryside to create a uproarious musical soap opera with an original score performed by composer Benedek Darvas and his four-person ensemble that mixes Hungarian folk tunes with baroque styles and structures.
