Kóka Ferenc megidézése Evocation of Ferenc Kóka Page 5-6 Prelude I became acquainted with Ferenc Kóka in 1970. Then, I yet attended university while he lived already with his wife in the New Artists' Colony in Szentendre. The interest shared by my latter husband and Kóka laid the foundation of the friendship of the four of us, despite the age gap. The Kókas "embraced" us, the students, and took us in the confidence of the large company of their artist friends. We took the car of Kóka to hop down to the town of Pest to enjoy a good Italian movie and, later, continued to evocate the best scenes, emphasized by Feri's distinctive uproarious laughter. We were ready, at any time, to wander the country and to be amused by any performance of Miklós Köllő's pantomime company. We attended the concerts given by János Gonda in the Musical Academy, although we did not always listen entirely to the experiments of some of the start-up musicians of that age, like Zoltán Kocsis and his classmates. We did not spare efforts to

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