In honor of a national
culture that has survived conquest after conquest and rather amazingly still
thrives today, Hungarians this year are celebrating, not the future, but their distinguished past, with a huge assemblage of
artistic events» concerts, operas, art shows, ballets» all under the title «Farewell to the XXth Century.»
The writer Sarah Lowndes, whose book Social Sculpture is a chronicle of Glasgow's rise to prominence, has linked the city's
artistic culture to its notable night life — she draws a line from postwar dancehalls to rave
culture to the
thriving independent music scene.