The Hungarian Cultural Garden will hold a “Concert in the Garden” on Sunday, August 2, 2009, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. (The rain date is August 9 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.) The even it free and open to the public.

The concert will feature the music of Ferenc Liszt, who is commemorated in the Hungarian Garden. In fact, the dedication of a plaque to Liszt, on the occasion of his 123rd birthday, was the initial event in the Hungarian Garden in 1934. In addition to the concert, there will be a tree planting ceremony to replace the dogwood trees following the original garden design from 1938. Savor the soothing natural sights and trill to the music of Liszt! Bring a blanket or chair and a picnic basket and enjoy the entire afternoon!

See the website of the Hungarian Cultural Gardens for more details.

On Saturday, July 25, Slovak Culture and Heritage Day will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dr. Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church at 4470 Ridge Road, Brooklyn. Slovak food and pastries available for purchase from noon to 2 p.m. Proceeds benefit Slovak Cultural Gardens. Visitors can bring photos and artifacts to share. Call 440-845-1886.

See the Armenian Cultural Garden’s page on this website for information on the latest design for this Garden.  The should be constructed and dedicated in 2010.

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports the  New Albanian Cultural Garden to feature statue of Mother Teresa: Robert L. Smith’s Global Village. Smith writes, “Another saintly presence will rise in Rockefeller Park as the Cleveland Cultural Gardens make room for a new nationality group.

Albania’s favorite daughter, Mother Teresa, will anchor an Albanian Cultural Garden recently approved by the Cleveland City Council for the north end of Martin Luther King Drive.

The Albanian community plans to raise a larger-than-life statue of the late Catholic nun, who was renowned for her work with the poor of India. She will join a garden chain that already includes Mahatma Gandhi, St. Sava, Christian bishops and Greek philosophers.” Click the link to read the whole column.

Excerpts from Hans Kopp’s July 14, 2009 report on the concert:

A respectable crowd of native Germans, neighboring cultural garden members, and people touring the garden on foot or on bike. who took time out to enjoy this concert presented by Cleveland’s: “Deutscher Musikverein”.

The concert, under the direction of Rosie Wittine, was well received. It featured music from Vienna to the Rhineland and the North Sea. The selection ended with the rousing Radetsky March of Johan Strauss, Sr.

Christine Rappel, the president of the Musikverein, was thrilled that the band was given the opportunity to perform in the German Cultural Garden. She wants Musikverein to perform again in 2010 with an even larger band by augmenting Musikverein with additional musicians instrumentation from other local German bands.

To increase the attendance of those who would enjoy it, it will be publicized to a broader audience by using, for examples, flyers distributed at Judson sites and the German Altenheim.