http://info.bmc.hu/site/muvesz/found_page.php?l=en&table=SZERZO&id=6

has his address and phone number. You could contact him directly.

On a Saturday night, it was difficult to find an open restaurant, and all too easy to find a bar. It is quite obvious that alcoholism is rampant. It all seemed rather depressing.

Beneath the surface of negativity in Budapest, I found something ever so rare…A true love of living art and music…A love that I have seen nowhere else. That same Saturday night at 10:30pm, I found a violin shop: a tiny shop about 6′ by 8′. There were 3 old men…the violin maker and his 2 friends drinking a bottle of wine and talking about violins. I tried a couple of instruments just for the fun of it. Before I knew it dozens of people gathered outside of the store just to listen. There were yuppie couples, blue collar workers, drunks, old, young, middle aged etc… pretty much everyone who walked past the store stopped to listen. This was nothing I have seen anyplace before.

The next day, I walked by the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. The website for the museum played up the Picasso and Rembrant exhibits. This was clearly for the tourists. At the museum, not much advertising about these two exhibits was apparent. In fact, what they did play up and what people were going to see was an exhibit featuring works by current Hungarian artists. Where else in the world would that be the hook and bait for an audience! Compare that with the Tate Modern in London, where a Salvador Dali exhibit was the hook and bait. Tate’s hook and bait came complete with a Salvador Dali impersonator beckoning you in.

So, it is no wonder that creative music continues to come from Hungary.