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Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 : St. Joan of Valois

Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

St. Joan of Valois

Joan of Valois, 1464 – 1505, was the second daughter of Louis X1,  King of France, and Charlotte of Savoy, She was born on April 23,   1464. At the age of two months she was betrothed to … continue reading

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Today In History. What Happened This Day In History

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

February 4

786		Harun al-Rashid succeeds his older brother the Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi as Caliph of Baghdad.
1194		Richard I, King of England, is freed from captivity in Germany.
1508		The Proclamation of Trent is made.
1787		Shay’s Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers against the new U.S. government, fails.
1795		France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.
1889		Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, “the Sundance Kid.”
1899		After an exchange of gunfire, fighting breaks out between American troops and Filipinos near Manila, sparking the Philippine-American War
1906		The New York Police Department begins finger print identification.
1909		California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren.
1915		Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.
1923		French troops take the territories of Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.
1932		Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurates the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
1941		The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.
1944		The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma.
1945		The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
1966		Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.
1980		Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.
1986		The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.
Born on February 4
1881		Fernand Leger, French painter.
1900		Jacques Prevert, French poet, screenwriter (The Visitors of the Evening, The Children of Paradise).
1902		Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1906		Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian.
1906		Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto.
1913		Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.
1921		Betty Friedan, writer, feminist, founded the National Organization of Women in 1966.
1925		Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child).
1932		Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer.
1947		Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.

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image of the day: Louis Braille simplified six dot alphabet for the visually impaired

Louis Braille

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At age 19, De La Hoya made his professional debut in the world of boxing, following in the footsteps of his pugilist grandfather and father. It came hot on the heels of an impressive Olympic performance, where he earned gold for the US Boxing Team, and he quickly made a name for himself as an international superstar. When De La Hoya defeated Felix Sturm in 2004, he became the first boxer in history to win world titles in six different weight divisions. How many punches did he throw in the fight? More… Discuss

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Although Abraham Lincoln had stated his willingness to tolerate slavery where it currently existed, his election as US president precipitated the secession of several Southern states. South Carolina, the first to secede, was soon followed out of the Union by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. On February 4, 1861, delegates from the seceding states met in Alabama to organize a provisional government. Who was elected president of the Confederate States of America? More… Discuss

UK May Be First to Allow “3-Parent Babies”

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The Salic Law

The Salic law was the rule of succession in some royal and noble European families that forbid females to succeed to certain titles or offices in the family. It likely came from the Salian Franks, who prohibited women from succeeding to the throne. The rule was most prominently enforced by the house of Valois and the succeeding house of Bourbon in France and was involved in the rivalry of Stephen and Matilda for the English throne. What impact did it have when Victoria became queen of England? More… Discuss

word: captious

captious

Definition:	(adjective) Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults.
Synonyms:	faultfinding
Usage:	She found the new professor to be captious, marking all the grammatical errors in her essays while ignoring the points she had tried to make. Discuss.

Leonard Cohen – So long, Marianne [Studio Version] (“…I forget to pray for the angels And then the angels forget to pray for us…”)

Leonard Cohen – So long, Marianne [Studio Version]

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Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne Lyrics

Come over to the window, my little darling
I’d like to try to read your palm
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
Before I let you take me home

Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

Well you know that I love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us

Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark

Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

Your letters they all say that you’re beside me now
Then why do I feel alone?
I’m standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone

Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

For now I need your hidden love
I’m cold as a new razor blade
You left when I told you I was curious
I never said that I was brave

Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
Oh, you are really such a pretty one
I see you’ve gone and changed your name again
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
To wash my eyelids in the rain

Oh so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

Songwriters: COHEN, LEONARD

So Long, Marianne lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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Franz Liszt – 14 Schubert Lieder
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Schubert – Winterreise, S561/R246: No. 6. Wasserflut 00:02:30
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Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 9. Standchen (Horch, horch! Der Lerch’) 00:02:47
Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 1. Sei mir gegrusset 00:06:06
Schubert – 6 Melodies, S563/R248: No. 4. Trockne Blumen 00:04:15
Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 7: Fruhlingsglaube 00:05:00
Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 3. Du bist die Ruh 00:06:08
Schubert – Schwanengesang, S560/R245: No. 12. Der Doppelganger 00:04:41
Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 8: Gretchen am Spinnrade 00:04:28
Schubert – 12 Lieder, S558/R243: No. 11. Der Wanderer 00:07:16
Schubert – Schwanengesang, S560/R245: No. 3. Aufenthalt 00:03:51

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– Fantasia on Russian Themes, Op. 33
– Фантазия на русские темы, соч. 33

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 George Enescu in 1930

George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe eˈnesku] ( listen); known in France as Georges Enesco; 19 August 1881 – 4 May 1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher, regarded as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century^[1][2][3][4] and Romania‘s most important musician.^[5]

Biography

 Young George Enescu

Enescu was born in the village of Liveni (later renamed “George Enescu” in his honor), in Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several, mostly very short pieces survive, all of them for violin and piano. The earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc (Romanian Land), and is somewhat pretentiously inscribed “opus for violin and piano by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter”.^[6] Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5 October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory,^[7][8] where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. He was the second person ever admitted to this university by a dispensation of age (there was a regulation that stipulated that no person younger than 14 years could study at the Vienna Conservatory), after only Fritz Kreisler (in 1882, also at the age of seven), and the first non-Austrian.^[9]

In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.^[10]

Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., one of his teachers and the director of the Vienna Conservatory, hosted Enescu at his home,^[when?] a place where the child prodigy met his idol, Johannes Brahms.^[11]

He graduated before his 13th birthday, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gedalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.^{[citation needed]}

Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris. André Gedalge said that he was “the only one [from his students] who truly had ideas and spirit”.^{[this quote needs a citation]}

On 6 February 1898, at the age of only 16, George Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Orchestra (at the time, one of the most prestigious in the world) and conducted by Édouard Colonne.^[12]

Many of Enescu’s works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–2), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra.^{[citation needed]} He also wrote five symphonies (two of them unfinished), a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music (three sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, a piano trio, two string quartets and two piano quartets, a wind decet (French, “dixtuor”), an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments). A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu, who had developed a deep interest in Oriental music, rehearsed with Shankar’s brother Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from Indonesia.^[13]

 George Enescu Museum (Cantacuzino Palace), Bucharest

 Grave of George Enescu -Père Lachaise Cemetery

On 8 January 1923 he made his American debut as a conductor in a concert given by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and he subsequently made frequent returns to the United States. It was in America, in the 1920s, that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. He also appeared as a conductor with many American orchestras, and in 1936 he was one of the candidates considered to replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent conductor of the New York Philharmonic.^[14] In 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin (who had been his pupil for several years starting in 1927) in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major. He also conducted the New York Philharmonic between 1937 and 1938. In 1939 he married Maria Rosetti (known as the Princess Cantacuzino through her first husband Mihail Cantacuzino), a good friend of Queen Marie of Romania. While staying in Bucharest, Enescu lived in the Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei (now the George Enescu Museum, dedicated to his work).^{[citation needed]}

He lived in Paris and in Romania, but after World War II and the Soviet occupation of Romania, he remained in Paris.^{[citation needed]}

He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, Ida Haendel and Joan Field were among his pupils. He promoted contemporary Romanian music, playing works of Constantin Silvestri, Mihail Jora, Ionel Perlea and Marţian Negrea.^{[citation needed]}

On his death in 1955, George Enescu was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Today, Bucharest houses a museum in his memory; likewise, the Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest and the George Enescu Festival—founded by his friend, musical advocate, and sometime collaborator, the conductor George Georgescu^[15]—are named and held in his honor. Recently, Bacău International Airport was named George Enescu International Airport.^[16]

Works

 Filarmonica “George Enescu”– Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest

Queen Elisabeth of Romania with George Enescu and Dimitrie Dinicu
at Peleș Castle.

Selected works

For a complete list, see List of compositions by George Enescu.

Operas

• Œdipe, tragédie lyrique in four acts, libretto by Edmond Fleg, Op. 23 (1910–31)

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13 (1905)
• Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 17 (1912–14)
• Symphony No. 3 in C major, with chorus, Op. 21 (1916–18)

Other orchestral works

• Poème Roumain, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 1 (1897)
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (1901)
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 (1901)
• Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 (1903)
• Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 20 (1915)
• Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major Suite Villageoise, Op. 27 (1937–38)

Chamber works

String Quartets

• String Quartet No. 1 in E♭ major, Op. 22, No. 1 (1920)
• String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 22, No. 2 (1950–52)

Sonatas

• Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2 (1897)
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor Op. 6 (1899)
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor dans le caractère populaire roumain, Op. 25 (1926)
• Cello Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 26, No. 1 (1898)
• Cello Sonata No. 2 in C major, Op. 26, No. 2 (1935)

Other chamber works

• Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7 (1900)
• Cantabile et Presto, for flute and piano (1904)
• Dixtuor in D major, for wind instruments, Op. 14 (1906)
• Concertstück, for viola and piano (1906)
• Légende, for trumpet and piano (1906)
• Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16 (1909)
• Impressions d’Enfance in D major, for violin and piano, Op. 28 (1940)
• Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
• Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30 (1943–44)
• Chamber Symphony, for 12 instruments, Op. 33 (1954)

Piano music

• Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor, Dans le style ancien Op. 3 (1897)
• Piano Suite No. 2 in D major, Op. 10 (1901/1903)
• Piano Suite No. 3, Pieces impromptues Op. 18 (1913–16)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 in F♯ minor, op 24, No. 1 (1924)
• Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major, op 24, No. 3 (1933–35)

Songs

Three songs setting Lemaitre and Prudhomme Four songs setting Fernand Gregh In German: Various settings of Carmen Silva (Queen Elisabeth of Romania) In Romanian – 3 songs

• Trois Mélodies, Op. 4 (1898)
• Sept Chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15 (1907–08)
• Trois Mélodies, Op. 19 (1916)

 

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Penes Curcanul de Vasile Alecsandri (Sa ne onoram eroii, cei ce ne-au daruit locul in lume!)

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Penes Curcanul

Plecat-am noua din Vaslui,
Si cu sergentul, zece,

Si nu-i era, zau, nimanui

In pept inima rece.

Voiosi ca soimul cel usor
Ce zboara de pe munte,

Aveam chiar pene la picior,

S-aveam si pene-n frunte.

Toti dorobanti, toti căciulari,

Romani de vita veche,
Purtind opinci, suman, itari

Si cusma pe-o ureche.

Ne dase nume de Curcani

Un hitru bun de glume,

Noi am schimbat linga Balcani

Porecla în renume !

Din cimp, de-acasa, de la plug
Plecat-am asta-vara
Ca să scapam de turci, de jug
Sarmana, scumpa tara.Asa ne spuse-n graiul sau

Sergentul Matraguna,
Si noi ne-am dus cu Dumnezeu,
Ne-am dus cu voie buna.
Oricine-n cale ne-ntilnea
Cîntînd în gura mare,
Statea pe loc, s-adimenea
Cuprins de admirare;
Apoi în treacat ne-ntreba
De mergem la vro nunta ?
Noi raspundeam în hohot:
,,Ba, Zburam la lupta crunta !”
,,Cu zile mergeti, dragii mei,
Si să veniti cu zile !”Ziceau atunci batrini, femei,
Si preoti, si copile;
Dar cel sergent far’ de musteti Racnea:
,,Să n-aveti teama,
Romanul are septe vieti In pieptu-i de arama !
“ Ah ! cui ar fi trecut prin gînd
S-ar fi crezut vrodata
Ca multi lipsi-vor în curind
Din mindra noastra ceata !
Priviti ! Din noua cîti cram,
Si cu sergentul, zece,
Ramas-am singur eu… si am
In piept inima rece !
Crud e cînd intra prin stejari

Naprasnica secure,
De-abate toti copacii mari
Din falnica padure !

Dar vai de-a lumei neagra stea

Când moartea nemiloasa
Ca-n codru viu patrunde-n ea

Si cînd securea-i coasa !

Copii ! aduceti un ulcior

De ape de sub stinca,

Să sting pojarul meu de dor

Si jalea mea adinca.

Ah ! ochii-mi sint plini de scântei

Si mult cumplit mă doare

Când mă î la fratii mei,

Cu toti periti în floare.

Cobuz ciobanu-n Calafat

Cinta voios din fluter,

Iar noi jucam hora din sat,

Rîzînd de-a boambei suier.

Deodat-o schija de obuz

Trasnind… minca-o-ar focul !

Reteaza capul lui Cobuz

S-astfel ne curma jocul.

Trei zile-n urma am razbit

Prin Dunarea umilata,

Si nu departe-am tabarit

De Plevna blestemata.

In fata noastra se-nalta

A Grivitei reduta,

Balaur crunt ce-ameninta

Cu gheara-i nevazuta.

Dar si noi inca o pindeam

Cum se pindeste-o fiara

Si tot chiteam si ne gindeam

Cum să ne cada-n gheara ?

Din ziori în ziori si turci si noi

Zvirleam în aer plumbii

Cum zvirli graunti de popusoi

Ca să hranesti porumbii.

Si tunuri sute bubuiau…

Se clatina pamintul !

Si mii de boambe vîjîiau

Trecînd în zbor ca vintul.

Sedea ascuns turcu-n ocol

Ca ursu-n vizunie.

Pe când trageam noi tot în gol,

El tot în carne vie

Tintes era dibaci tunar,

Căci toate-a lui ghiulele

Loveau turcescul furnicar,

Ducind moartea cu ele.

Dar intr-o zi veni din fort

Un glonte, numai unul,

Si bietul Tintes cazu mort,

Imbratisindu-si tunul.

Pe-o noapte oarba,

Bran si Vlad Erau în sentinele.

Ferbea vazduhul ca un iad

De boambe, de srapnele.

In ziori gasit-am pe-amindoi

Taiati de iatagane,

Alature c-un moviloi

De lesuri musulmane.

Sarmanii ! bine s-au luptat

Cu litfa cea pagina

Si chiar murind ei n-au lasat

Să cad-arma din mâna.

Dar ce folos ! ceata scadea !

S-acuma ramasese

Cinci numai, cinci flacai din ea.

Si cu sergentul, sese !…

Veni si ziua de asalt,

Cea zi de sânge uda !

Parea tot omul mai inalt

Fata cu moartea cruda.

Sergentul nostru, pui de zmeu,

Ne zis-aste cuvinte:

,,Cit n-om fi morti, voi cinci si eu Copii, tot inainte !”

Facind trei cruci, noi am raspuns:

,,Amin ! si Doamne-ajuta !”

Apoi la fuga am impuns

Spre-a turcilor reduta.

Alelei ! Doamne, cum zburau

Voinicii toti cu mine !

Si cum la santuri alergau

Cu scari si cu fasine !

Iata-ne-ajunsi !… inca un pas ,,Ura !-nainte, ura !…”

Dar multi ramin fara de glas.

Le-nchide moartea gura !

Reduta-n noi rapede-un foc

Cit nu-1 incape gindul.

Un sir intreg s-abate-n loc,

Dar altul ii ia rindul.

Burcel în sant moare zdrobind

O tidva pagîneasca.

Soimu-n redan cade racnind ,,Moldova să traiasca !”

Doi frati Calini, ciuntiti de vii,

Se zvircolesc în sânge;

Nici unul insa, dragi copii,

Nici unul nu se plânge.

Atunci viteazul capitan

Cu-o larga brazda-n frunte,

Striga voios: ,,Cine-i Curcan,

Si fie soim de munte !”

Cu steagu-n mini, el sprintenel

Viu suie-o scara-nalta.

Eu cu sergentul dupa el Sarim delaolalta.

Prin foc, prin spangi, prin glonti, prinfum,

Prin mii de baionete,

Urcam, luptam… iata-ne-acum

Sus, sus, la parapete. ,,Allah ! Allah !” turcii racnesc,

Sarind pe noi o suta.

Noi punem steagul romanesc

Pe crincena reduta.

Ura ! maret se-nalta-n vint Stindardul Romaniei !

Noi insa zacem la pământ

Cazuti prada urgiei !

Sergentul moare suierind

Pe turci în risipire,

Iar capitanul admirind

Stindardu-n fîlfîire !

Si eu, când ochii am inchis,

Când mi-am luat osinda:

,,Ah ! pot să mor de-acum, am zis,

A noastra e izbinda !”

Apoi, când iarasi m-am trezit

Din noaptea cea amara,

Colea pe rani eu am gasit

,,Virtutea militara !…”

Ah ! da-o-ar Domnul să-mi indrept

Aceasta mâna rupta,

Să-mi vindec ranile din pept,

Iar să mă-ntorc la lupta,

Căci nu-i mai scamp nimica az

Pe lumea paminteasca

Decit un nume de viteaz

Si moartea vitejeasca !

Sergentul, de Vasile Alecsandri

Sergentul
poezie

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2002-08-08  |     |  Înscris în bibliotecă de aleksandar stoicovici

Sergentul Pe drumul de costise ce duce la Vaslui
Venea un om, cu jale zicind în gindul lui:
“Mai lunga-mi pare calea acum la-ntors acasa…
As vrea să zbor, si rana din pulpa nu mă lasa!”
Si bietul om, slab, palid, avind sumanul rupt
Si o camesa rupta bucati pe dedesupt,
Pasea tragind piciorul încet, dar pe-a lui fata
Zbura ca o lumina de glorie mareata,
Si-n ochii lui de vulturi adinci, vioi si mari
Trecea lucioase umbre de eroi legendari.

Opinca-i era sparta, căciula desfundata,
Dar fruntea lui de raze parea incoronata.
Calica-i era haina, dar straluceau pe ea
Si crucea “Sfintul Gheorghe” si a “Romaniei Stea”.
Romanul venea singur pe drumul plin de soare,
Când iata ca aude fanfare sunatoare
Si vede nu departre în fata lui venind
Un corp de oaste mindra în aur stralucind.
Erau trei batalione de garda-mparateasca
Mergând voiios la Plevna cu dor s-o cucereasca.

In frunte-i colonelul semet, pe calu-i pag,
La bravii sai tovarasi privea ades cu drag,
Si inima în pieptu-i batea cu foc, desteapta,
Căci el visa, privindu-i, la lupta ce-i asteapta.
Deodat’ el da cu ochii de sarbedul roman
Ce stase-n loc la umbra, sub un stejar batrân,
Si mult se minuneaza, si nici ca-i vine-a crede
Când crucea “Sfintul Gheorghe” pe sinul lui o vede.
S-opreste regimentul, iar bravul colonel
Se-nchina la drumetul, s-apropie de el.

Si-i zice cu blindeta: “De unde vii straine?”
“Vin tocmai de la Plevna.” “Cum e acolo?” “Bine.”
“Dar aste decoratii cum, cine ti le-au dat?”
“Chiar domninorul nostru s-al vostru imparat.”
“Dar pentru care fapte?” “Stiu eu?… Cica drept plata
Ca am luat eu steagul redutei… si pe data
Cu el, strapunsi de glonturi, ne-am prabusit în sant…”
“Dar ce rang ai voinice?” “Am rang… de dorobant!”
Atunci colonelul, dând mâna cu sergentul,
Se-ntoarce, da un ordin… Pe loc, tot regimentul
Se-nsira, poarta arma, saluta cu onor
Romanul care pleaca tragind a lui picior.

 

Siege of Pleven (Plevna): The fight to disrupt the expansion of the ottoman empire costed many precios lives but for the most noble of causes: the right to self determination, Liberty and Independence from an evil empire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Siege of Pleven
Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Date 20 July – 10 December 1877 Location Plevne, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) 43°25′N 24°37′ECoordinates: 43°25′N 24°37′E Result Russian/Romanian victory[1]
Belligerents
Russian Empire Romania Bulgarian volunteers	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Tsar Alexander II[2] Grand Duke Nicholas Eduard Totleben Prince Carol I of Romania	Osman Nuri Pasha
Strength
150,000	40,000
Casualties and losses
40,000 killed or wounded	10,000 killed or wounded 30,000 surrendered

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The Siege of Plevna, or Siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman defense held up the main Russian advance southwards into Bulgaria, encouraging other great powers of the time to actively support the Ottoman cause. Eventually, superior Russian and Romanian numbers forced the garrison to capitulate.

Background

In July 1877 the Russian Army, under the command of Grand Duke Nicholas, moved toward the Danube River virtually unopposed, as the Ottomans had no sizable force in the area. The Ottoman high command sent an army under the command of Osman Nuri Pasha to reinforce Nikopol, but the city fell to the Russian vanguard in the Battle of Nikopol (16 July 1877) before Osman reached it. He settled on Plevna, a town among vineyards in a deep rocky valley some twenty miles to the south of Nikopol, as a defensive position. The Ottomans quickly created a strong fortress, raising earthworks with redoubts, digging trenches, and quarrying out gun emplacements. From Plevne (Plevna) Osman’s army dominated the main strategic routes into the heart of Bulgaria. As the Turks hurried to complete their defenses, Russian forces began to arrive.

The Siege

First Battle

Gen. Schilder-Schuldner, commanding the Russian 5th Division, IX Corps, received orders to occupy Plevna. Schilder-Schuldner arrived outside the town on 19 July and began bombarding the Ottoman defenses. The next day his troops attacked and succeeded in driving Ottoman forces from some of the outer defenses; however, Osman Pasha brought up reinforcements and launched a series of counterattacks, which drove the Russians from the captured trenches, inflicting 4,000 casualties at a cost of 1,000 of his own men.

Second Battle

Osman Pasha strengthened his defences and built more redoubts, his force growing to 20,000 men, while the Russians obtained reinforcements from the army of Prince Carol of Romania (later king Carol I of Romania), who made the stipulation that he be given command of the joint besieging force. Gen. Nikolai Kridener also arrived with the Russian IX Corps. On 31 July Russian headquarters ordered Kridener to assault the town, attacking from three sides, with every expectation of a Russo-Romanian triumph. General Schakofsky’s cavalry attacked the eastern redoubts, while an infantry division under General Mikhail Skobelev assailed the Grivitsa redoubt to the north. Schakofsky managed to take two redoubts, but by the end of the day the Ottoman forces succeeded in repulsing all the attacks and retaking lost ground. Russian losses amounted to 7,300, and the Ottomans’ to 2,000.

Third Battle

 King Carol I salutes the Romanian army crossing the Danube

After repulsing the Russian attacks, Osman failed to press his advantage and possibly drive off the besiegers; he did, however, make a cavalry sortie on 31 August that cost the Russian 1,300 casualties, and the Ottomans 1,000. The Russians continued to send reinforcements to Plevna, and their army swelled to 100,000 men, now personally led by the Grand Duke. On 3 September Skobelev reduced the Turkish garrison at Lovech, guarding the Ottoman supply lines, before Osman could move out to relieve it (see main article: Battle of Lovcha). The Ottoman army organized the survivors of Lovech into 3 battalions for the Plevna defenses. Osman also received a reinforcement of 13 battalions, bringing his total strength to 30,000—the highest it would reach during the siege.

In August, Romanian troops led by General Alexandru Cernat crossed the Danube and entered the battle with 43,414 men.^[3]

On 11 September the Russians and Romanians made a large-scale assault on Plevna. The Ottoman forces were dug in and equipped with German Krupp-manufactured steel breech-loading artillery and American-manufactured Winchester repeaters^[4] and Peabody-Martini rifles. For three hours they poured murderous fire into the waves of advancing Russians.^[5] Czar Alexander II and his brother Grand Duke Nicolas watched from a pavilion built on a hillside out of the line of fire.^[6] Skobelev took two southern redoubts. The Romanian 4th division lead by General George Manu took the Grivitsa redoubt after 4 bloody assaults, personally assisted by Prince Carol. The next day, the Turks retook the southern redoubts, but could not dislodge the Romanians, who repelled three counterattacks. From the beginning of September, Russian losses had amounted to roughly 20,000, while the Ottomans lost only 5,000.

 The Plevna Chapel on St Elijah’s Square in Moscow, opened in 1882, commemorates the Russian soldiers who died in the Battle of Plevna.

Fourth Battle

Growing Russian and Romanian casualties put a halt to frontal assaults. Gen. Eduard Ivanovich Todleben arrived to oversee the conduct of the siege as the army chief of staff. Todleben had proven command experience in siege warfare, having gained renown for his defense of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War. He decided on a complete encirclement of the city and its defenders. Osman requested permission from his superiors to abandon Plevna and retreat, but the Ottoman high command would not allow him to do so. By 24 October the Russians and Romanians had closed the ring. Supplies began to run low in the city, and Osman finally made an attempt to break the Russian siege in the direction of Opanets. On 9 December the Ottoman forces silently emerged at dead of night, threw bridges over and crossed the Vit River, attacked on a two-mile front, and broke through the first line of Russian trenches. Here they fought hand to hand and bayonet to bayonet, with, at first, little advantage to either side; however, outnumbering the Ottoman forces almost 5 to 1, the Russians eventually drove them back across the Vit, wounding Osman in the process (he was hit in the leg by a stray bullet, which killed his horse beneath him). Rumours of his death created panic. After making a brief stand, the Ottoman forces found themselves driven back into the city, losing 5,000 men to the Russians’ 2,000. The next day Osman surrendered the city, the garrison and his sword to Romanian Col. Mihail Cerchez. He was treated honorably, but his troops perished in the snows by the thousands as they straggled off into captivity.

Results

 Sword surrendered by Edhem Pasha after the defeat at Plevna.

 The monument 2008

“Plevna is one of the few engagements which changed the course of history” A. J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918, (Oxford 1954) p. 245. The Siege of Plevna seriously delayed the main Russian advance into Bulgaria, but its end freed up Russian reinforcements, which were sent to Gen. Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko, who then decisively defeated the Ottoman forces in the fourth battle of Shipka Pass. The siege was widely reported on and followed by the public in Europe and beyond. Although the declining Ottoman Empire was by this time often regarded as “the sick man of Europe”, the Ottoman Army’s five-month-long resistance in the face of overwhelming odds earned a degree of admiration, which may have contributed to the unsympathetic treatment of the Russian Empire at the Congress of Berlin. The siege of Plevna also signalled the introduction of the repeating rifle into European warfare.^[5] Russian troops at Plevna were largely armed with the M1869 Krnka, a single shot lifting breech block conversion of the muzzle loading M1857 rifled musket even though some units had been reequipped with the more modern, but still single shot, Berdan rifle.^[5] The old Krnka was soundly outperformed by the more modern single shot Turkish Peabody-Martini rifles and it became clear that the new Berdan rifle had also been rendered obsolete even as it was being introduced into service, outclassed by the Turkish Winchester repeaters. Reports of the heavy losses suffered by the Russian army at the hands of the Turks at Plevna forced armies across Europe to begin the process of either reequipping with repeating rifles or finding a way to convert their existing single shot rifles into magazine fed weapons.

Legacy

• A large new factory building, completed in 1877, of the Finlayson & Co cotton mill in Tampere, Finland was named Plevna commemorating the battle and the Guard of Finland that took part.^[7]
• The city of Plevna, Montana in the United States was given its name by Bulgarian immigrants building the railroad there in honor of the battle of Plevna.
• In other countries, there are five cities and towns named after Plevna, and there are eighteen Plevna streets in Britain alone.
• At least one main Street in Bucharest Romania has received the name the  PLevna’s Way (Calea Plevnei)  to comemmorate the marching regiments of Dorobants (Romanian Army),  of which many have never returned home!

In popular culture

• The best-selling Russian detective novel The Turkish Gambit, the second book in the Erast Fandorin series, is set at the Siege of Plevna.
• A famous Mehteran (Ottoman military band) piece “Osman Paşa Marşı” (Osman Pasha March) honors the courageous defense of the Plevna; and is one of the most well-known marches in Turkey.
• Under the Red Crescent by Charles Snodgrass Ryan, Australian Surgeon at the Siege of Plevna, who later operated in the Gallipoli campaign and negotiated with his old friends for burial armistices.

Mozart – Alla Turca – Turkish March (60 Minutes Version)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Published on Jul 17, 2014/214,439

Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart in a 60 minutes rendition from a very rare LP recording featuring piano and orchestra with a repetition of the piece for more than 10 times. This version of the Alla Turca, also known as the Turkish March is the only one accompanied by a symphony orchestra with a more soothing and deep sound of this true master piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The melodic lines in the orchestra are more in the style of Beethoven & Tchaikovsky than Mozart, and remind a little bit of the James Bond Theme, but the concept of the piece is originally followed. Let’s say that this is a modern version of the Turkish March enhanced with the rich orchestral sound.

Enjoy and relax while listening to this really long and calming version of Rondo alla Turca, which can be used for various occasions like music for healing, reading, homework, learning, relaxing, stress relief and even for a musical ambiance if you have some guests at home and when doing any other useful things as well.

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Rimsky-Korsakov – Fairy Tale (skazka), Op. 29 , great compositions/performances

Rimsky-Korsakov – Fairy Tale (skazka), Op. 29

DGatsby

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yondani Butt.
Fairy Tale (skazka), Op. 29 by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed in 1880-81. It is a symphonic poem based on these lines from Pushkin’s prologue to “Ruslan and Lyudmila“: “One fairy-tale I do recall, I’ll tell now to one and all.”

From Rimsky-Korsakov’s autobiography “My Musical Life“, pages 245-46:

“While making up the programs of the Russian Musical Society, [Eduard] Napravnik addressed an inquiry to me, as to which of my compositions I should like to hear performed at these concerts. I indicated the recently written “Skazka” (Fairy-tale) and gave the score to Napravnik. Shortly afterwards the latter proposed that I conduct the piece myself. I consented. At one of the earlier concerts of that season the “Fairy-tale” was placed on the program. I conducted. The performance would have been quite successful if the concert-master, Pikkel (then growing morbidly nervous) , had not jumped out, without any reason, at the entrance of the violins divisi towards the end of the piece and by so doing confused the other violinists. However, the violins speedily recovered, and the mistake had hardly been noticed by the audience. Save for this episode, I was pleased with the performance as well as with the piece itself, which sounded colourful and brilliant. In general “Skazka” undoubtedly recalls in style “Snyegoorochka”, as having been composed simultaneously with it.
Strange to this day hearers grasp with difficulty the true meaning of the “Fairy-tale’s” program: they seek in it a chained up tom-cat walking around an oak tree, and all the fairy tale episodes which were jotted down by Pushkin in the prologue to his “Ruslan and Lyudmila” and which served as the starting point for my Fairy-tale. In his brief enumeration of the elements of the Russian fairy-tale epos that make up the stories of the miraculous tom-cat, Pushkin says

“One fairy tale I do recall, I’ll tell it now to one and all,”

and then narrates the fairy-tale of “Ruslan and Lyudmila.” But I narrate my own musical fairy-tale. By my very narrating the musical fairy-tale and quoting Pushkin’s prologue I show that my fairy-tale is, in the first place, Russian, and secondly, magical, as if it were one of the miraculous tom-cat’s fairy-tales that I had overheard and retained in my memory. Yet I had not at all set out to depict in it all that Pushkin had jotted down in the prologue, any more than he puts all of it into his fairy-tale of “Ruslan.” Let everyone seek in my fairy-tale only the episodes that may appear before his imagination, but let him not insist that I include everything enumerated in Pushkin’s prologue. The endeavor to discern in my fairy-tale the tom cat that had related this same fairy-tale is groundless, to say the least. The two above-quoted lines of Pushkin are printed in italics in the program of my “Fairy-tale”, to distinguish them from the other verses and direct thereby the auditor’s attention to them. But this has been understood neither by the audiences nor the critics, who have interpreted my “Skazka” in all ways crooked and awry and who, in my time, as usual, of course, did not approve of it. On the whole, however, the “Fairy-tale” won sufficient success with the public.”

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov,Symphonic Suite:”Antar” (Symphony No.2) , great compositions/performances

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov,Symphonic Suite:”Antar” (Symphony No.2).

pomip1010

Published on Jan 24, 2014

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov had a work ethic that bordered on the obsessive, and when inspiration failed him, he would often busy himself by tidying up works from his youth. This habit accounts for the proliferation of versions of Antar. This work was composed between January and August 1868, and premiered in March of the next year. After a few alterations, it was published in 1880 as his Second Symphony. However, in the “new edition” of 1903, which was dated 1897, “Antar” was substantially revised and called a symphonic suite, with the words Second Symphony in a parenthetical subtitle. In 1913, a final version of Antar came out, called simply a “Symphonic Suite,” as Rimsky-Korsakov had decided that Antar was “a poem, suite, fairy tale, story, anything you like, but not a symphony.” The final version changes the key of the second movement and has more refined and detailed orchestration. However, the earlier version may best preserve the freshness of Rimsky-Korsakov’s response to the myth of Antar, a great warrior from Arabian literature.

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Lucasz Borowicz.

Dvorak : Symphony No.1 in C Minor, “The Bells of Zlonice” , great compositions/performances

Dvorak : Symphony No.1 in C Minor, “The Bells of Zlonice”

RichardHilo

Published on Jun 5, 2012

Dvorak : Symphony No.1 in C Minor, “The Bells of Zlonice”

Vladimir Valek
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

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