Rediscovering a forgotten masterpiece-- the Szekely String Quartet FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY Hungarian violinist Zoltan Szekely (pronounced "say ki") dazzled concert goers with his ability to combine technical virtuosity with musical depth. While still a teenage student at the Franz Liszt Academy...

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The voice is raspy but recognizable, reminiscent of a time when he played with a band so amazingly good they were simply known as The Band.That was more than three decades ago, before the throat cancer and the surgery and the radiation left Levon Helm...

Laszlo KovacsBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) _ Laszlo Kovacs, a Hungarian refugee and master cinematographer whose stylistic inventions transformed cinema with such movies as "Easy Rider" and "Five Easy Pieces," has died. He was 74.Kovacs died Sunday in his sleep, said his wife, Audrey Kovacs.Laszlo Kovacs...

[Given The Last Waltz's] title and subject, and Scorsese's tendency to work in an apocalyptic register, an air of Götterdämmerung hangs over The Last Waltz. This is the end of an era in popular music, one apostrophised finally by [Robbie] Robertson when he marvels that he and The Band have spent sixteen years on the road, quails before the prospect of pushing their luck any further, and then enumerates the performers, from Hank Williams through Janis Joplin to Elvis Presley, who ...