GRGR(6) Discussion Opener

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Paul Mackin wrote:

>  I was thinking of those "Eyebrows going a mile a minute,
extraordinarily fluid and graceful hand gestures."
> Can't recall what the original Count looked like.
> Hard (for me) to sort out nationalities (Hungarian, Rumanian,
Transylvanian) in that part of Middle Europe. Was Bela a Hungarian like
Rosie?

Yes. Most Transylvanians are Hungarians, too, a fact which Nikolai 
Ceaucescu did not like at all, and acted as a true vampire emperor,
oppressing those people ruthlessly. (But as with the nationalities
of the former Yugoslavia, hostilities between (many) Hungarians and
(many) Rumanians have a long history.)

Still, of all my Southern language relatives, I've always connected
those "extraordinarily fluid and graceful hand gestures" to Franz Liszt,
who, after all, may still be Rosie's "most famous compatriot". (Although 
Ken Russell's LISZTOMANIA came out only later in the 70s, am I right?)

Heikki