The paper called the festival of Hungarian music, art, film, food and literature the "largest undertaking yet" by New York's Hungarian Cultural Centre, which is organising the programme.
Among the highlights of the season, the paper mentioned the New York debut of the composer and performer György Kurtág; a performance by the talented young jazz and folk singer Bea Palya; an exhibition at the Jewish Museum based on the filmmaker Péter Forgács's documentary The Danube Exodus, about Jews escaping down the Danube in 1939, and Germans fleeing the Soviets up the river one year later; a retrospective of films by the director Béla Tarr at the Museum of Modern Art; and a visit by some of Hungary's best chefs to New York's French Culinary Institute.
The New York Sun commended the Hungarian Cultural Center's director, László Jakab Orsós, for transforming the centre from a place originally meant to serve Hungarian émigrés to one "that sees its mission as engaging all New Yorkers with Hungarian historical and contemporary culture."
Before he took over the centre, Orsós was a newspaper columnist, a lecturer on screenwriting at the Budapest Academy of Film and half of a notorious pair of restaurant critics who wrote in Hungary's most popular broadsheet under the pseudonym "The Wittman Boys."
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
