Hungarian Music Project In Kennedy Center
- 29 May 2014 4:10 AM
The Glass House Project comprising US-Hungarian musicians and named after a WW2 Jews refuge in Budapest played to great acclaim at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on Wednesday evening.
The group led by trumpeter Frank London of The Klezmatics played a mixture of jazz, world music and folk music at the event marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary.
Hungarian ambassador in Washington, DC, György Szapáry noted before the concert that the musical project had been named after the Glass House set up by Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz to become one of the most famous of 76 protected houses in Budapest.
More than 3,000 Jews found refuge in the Glass House during the Holocaust, he added.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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