The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-08-18
GYPSY BANDS.
Hungarian Music at Home --Mu sicians
at Budapest.

Hungarian Music at Home--Musicians
at Budapest.
Correspondence Ne,o York; Herald.
Perhaps the most delightful fea-
turc of Budapest next to it's variety
OF summer resorts is the gypsy
music. Already at the first Hunga
rian railway station on tho way from
Vienna to Pest, at Noubenserl, the
wild. sad, plaintive and ipeffably
touching strains of gypsy band
greet tho ear of tho wayfarer. The
American reader has probably re-.
ceived faint idea of tho striking
characteristics of the Hungarian
gypsy music from Liszt's "Rapsodie
Hongroise," Erkel's "Hunyadi Laz-
zio and the "Rakoczy March,"
played so exquisitoly by Thomas
band in Now York two summers
ago. But to appreciate the wild,
racy, altogether ipdescribable flavor
and sublime, rugged beauty of Hun.
garian music you should como to
Budapest and listen to ono of tho
gypsy bands like that Of Racz Pal.
1t is music which seems to seize
hold of every nerve and pulse, of
every heart string, to vibrate it at
will, to stretch it to it's utmost ton
sion of ecstacy with it's Joy, and in
the next moment to almost rend it
with the unutterable despairing sad
ness of its tones. It laughs and
weeps in the samo noto almost. A
very true saying was that "Weinend
unterhalt sich der Unger" (the
Hungarian enjoys himself weeping).
But tho Hungarian gypsy bands
here are not hoard at their best at
the hotels and gardens. You must
attune these gypsy fddles to their
most fiery magic by q good round
heap of forins. Go to some enter
tainment of Hungarian mobiles or
swells, where they collect ono hun
dred OF two hundred Horins for the
band, and then, oh how they play,
with the glistoning gold or tho
equally pleasant paper rags before
them. When a Hungarian swell
gives n dinner or supper ho always
has some gypsy band to play the
fAvorite melodies of every guest.
The duslky those Ole
Bulls who never learned q note-are
told to step up close to the guests,
and there standing right before
them they fiddle away till two or
three in the morning. Now this
one, now that one of the guests will
shout out the name of his favorite
tune and interrupt the pieco they
are just then performing. It is no
matter, however the gypsies arc
used to these interruptions, and on
they 60 making their loved instru-
ments not only speak, but scream
for the very joy and sorrow which
these wild sons of tho Proszta feel
as they are fddling away into tho
night The sight of the flying
champagne corks, of the jolly, ami
mated faces round them, the shouts
of interruption, tho approving
glances, the delightful glimpse of O
new twenty forin bill which somo
Magyr cavalier hings ut him, all this
inspires the gypsy fiddler till his
whole body seems to sway in tho
rapt, wild delirium of his own music.
Who can ever forget the gypsy
bands of Hungary who has heard
them on some such favored night
The Colossal BRONZE STATUE or
VICTORY which stand in the Park, at
Lowell, before the tomb of the first
soldiers that fell in the revolution, is
lasting and beautiful tribute of art.
1t is one of the first objects sought
by strangers visiting our sister city,
which indeed many visit pufposely to
sec this elegant object Of high art.
1t was obtained from the King of
Bavaria by DR.. j. G. Aver, to whom
his Majesty was especially gracious
in acknowledgment of what his
remedies are reputed to have done
for the suffering sick. It was dona~
ted by tho Doctor to the City of
Lowell as permanent and speaking
emblem Of tho victories both Of
science and arms. .-Hagcrstosop
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