To finish our hour of Hungarian music, Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3. Liszt was imitating the sound of Hungarian gypsy musicians. This spring, the Budapest Festival Orchestra played the piece ...

In this article, the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” are used interchangeably, but there are differences. “Roma,” the preferred term internationally, is not actually as inclusive, as there are some Gypsy ...

Johannes Brahms' most lucrative compositions were appropriated from Hungarian Gypsy bands. In his Hungarian Dances, he adds romantic elements to popular Gypsy tunes. The Budapest Festival Orchestra ...

Thus, during a recent revival at Budapest’s Fovarosi Theater of the operetta Countess Maritza (vintage 1924), sang Count Tassilo Endrodi, the impoverished Hungarian nobleman who for the first time in ...

SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (AP) — Zoltan Sztojka, by his own account Hungary's last Roma fortuneteller, lays 36 weathered tarot cards on a table at his home in the village of Soltvadkert, and peers at them ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — László Jakab Orsós, the charismatic director of the Hungarian Cultural Center, is not your typical cultural diplomat. In Budapest, he was a newspaper columnist, a lecturer in ...