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Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 Conductor: Zubin Mehta Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

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Uploaded on May 30, 2011

Also known as The Great Russian Easter Overture, is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov between August 1887 and April 1888, and dedicated to the memories of Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin, two members of the legendary “Mighty Handful”.

It is subtitled “Overture on Liturgical Themes”. It is the last of the composer’s series of three exceptionally brilliant orchestral works, preceded by Capriccio Espagnol and Scheherazade. The work received its premiere in St. Petersburg in late December 1888.

Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Picture: Il’ja Efimovič Repin, Easter Procession in the region of Kursk (1880-1883)

ANTONIN DVORAK ” SONG TO THE MOON” FROM RUSALKA

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Uploaded on Apr 22, 2010

Antonin Dvorak “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka
This opera was completed in 1901, and for its heroine
Dvorak created an aria in the first act that is popular today:
“O Silver Moon”
here without words , orchestra only

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Joachim Raff – Symphony No 11 in A minor, Op 214 – Philharmonia Hungarica Werner Andreas Albert, conductor

Joachim Raff – Symphony No 11 in A minor, Op 214 – Albert

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Published on Sep 29, 2013

Joachim Raff
Symphony No 11 in A minor, Op 214 ‘Der Winter’

00:00 Allegro
11:36 Allegretto
17:22 Larghetto
25:40 Allegro

Philharmonia Hungarica
Werner Andreas Albert, conductor

Pray the Rosary – Tuesday and Friday – The Sorrowful Mysteries – Powerful Prayers for Miracles

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Published on Jun 11, 2012

Listen and pray along to The Sorrowful Mysteries and meditate on:

1. The Agony in the Garden: Contrition for our sins.
2. The Scourging at the Pillar: Mortification of our senses.
3. The Crowning with Thorns: Interior mortification.
4. The Carrying of the Cross: Patience under crosses.
5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord: That we may die to ourselves.

Enjoy peace and love.

word of wisdom: BIBLE – †Luke 16:13†

Parallel Verses New International Version “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

 

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

16:13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions with contempt. But he warned them, that what they contended for as the law, was a wresting of its meaning: this our Lord showed in a case respecting divorce. There are many covetous sticklers for the forms of godliness, who are the bitterest enemies to its power, and try to set others against the truth.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13 – No servant can serve two masters… Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Very vividly is this experience brought out in the great parable which immediately follows There the rich man was evidently one who observed the sacred ritual of the Law of Moses: this we learn without doubt from his conversation after death with Abraham. Thus he tried, after his light, to serve God, but he also served mammon: this we learn, too, clearly from the description given to us of his life, from the mention of the gorgeous apparel and the sumptuous feeding. The service of the two was incompatible, and we know from the sombre sequel of the story to which master the rich man really held, and whom – alas for him! – in his heart he despised.

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

No servant can serve two masters,…. See Gill on Matthew 6:24.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
†

King: ‘I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second’ – CNN.com

(CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King suggested Friday that some American Jews feel like “Democrats first and Jewish second.”

 

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 5:48 PM ET, Fri March 20, 2015

(CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King suggested Friday that some American Jews feel like “Democrats first and Jewish second.”

“Here is what I don’t understand, I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel along the line of just following their President,” King, a hardline conservative from Iowa, said Friday on Boston Herald Radio,

“It says this, they’re knee-jerk supporters of the President’s policy,” King said.

As a Republican from Iowa, King has met with virtually every Republican considering a 2016 presidential run, hosting the first cattle call of 2016 Republican hopefuls in Iowa in January.

King was responding to a question about the nearly 60 Democrats, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who decided to boycott Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress earlier this month. Netanyahu came to Congress in defiance of the White House to sound the alarm over the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran, stressing that President Barack Obama was preparing to reach a “bad deal” on Iran’s nuclear program.

Executive director of the American Jewish Committee, a leading global Jewish advocacy group, David Harris, was quick to condemn King’s comments, calling them “painfully wrongheaded and hurtful.”

“It’s a painfully wrongheaded understanding of American Jews and this kind of collective description should have no place in American political discourse,” Harris told CNN. “American Jews, like other faith and ethnic groups, are a very diverse community in their thinking, in their policies and in their voting behavior.”

Harris added it was wrong to equate criticism of Netanyahu as anti-Israel, pointing out that there’s no “single Jewish outlook or point of view.

“I know lots of American Jews who support the President and many others who don’t support the President on Israel on Iran policy,” Harris added.

When asked if anti-Semitism was a factor — it’s not clear if the host was referring to Obama’s policies — King said yes, along with “plain liberalism.”

King’s office did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.

According to recent polls, a majority of American Jews support the Democratic Party.

Several Jewish groups also criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and his repudiation last week of a Palestinian state in the lead-up to the elections.

Netanyahu has since walked back those comments, insisting that he supports a “sustainable, peaceful two-state solution.”

A number of Jewish groups — both in the U.S. and Israel — advocate for a two-state solution and some oppose Netanyahu’s position on the peace process.

via King: ‘I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second’ – CNN.com.

Back in the USSR? Spying and control in the new Crimea – CNN.com (‘davai ceas, davai palton…’)

Photos: Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine 44 photos
Ukraine crisis captured by CNN Teams – KIEV, UKRAINE: After the deaths of 25 people during clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters prepare to stand and fight again on February 19. Photo taken by CNN’s Andrew Carey on February 19.

Photos: Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine 44 photos Ukraine crisis captured by CNN Teams – KIEV, UKRAINE: After the deaths of 25 people during clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters prepare to stand and fight again on February 19. Photo taken by CNN’s Andrew Carey on February 19.

 

Story highlights

Life under total surveillance and control now the norm in Crimea, says writer

Old Soviet practice of denunciation has become commonplace, he says

He writes: The harder life gets in Crimea, the more people support Putin

editor’s Notes:  “The writer lives and works in Crimea and has asked CNN to protect their identity. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.”

(CNN)How can I describe life in Crimea after a year under Russia’s control?

You start saying things like “Let’s not talk about this on the phone” and become careful about the Facebook pages you “like.”

Because total surveillance and control has become routine — like it was in the Soviet Union.

In just one year so much has been lost and many Crimeans seem to have forgotten rights that were part of everyone’s life.

There is a growing level of censorship, inequality and political repression of those who don’t agree with the government.

via Back in the USSR? Spying and control in the new Crimea – CNN.com.

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Back in the U.S.S.R. The Beatles (With Lyrics)

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Lyrics :
Writer: LENNON, JOHN WINSTON / MCCARTNEY, PAUL JAMES

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah

Been away so long I early knew the place
Gee, it’s good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Geogie’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu hey hu, hey, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, show me round your snow peaked
Mountain way down south
Take me to your daddy’s farm
Let me hear your balalaika’s ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I’m back in the USSR
Hey, you don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR
Oh, let me tell you honey

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Spying and control in the new Crimea
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Rep. King: U.S. Jews are Democrats first
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35 (1897) , great compositions/performances

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35 (1897)

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Published on Jan 9, 2013

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35 (1897).

Mistislav Rostropovich, cello.
Saito Kinen Orchestra.
Seiji Ozawa, conductor.

Historic Musical Bits: Brahms – Symphony No. 2 – Wiener Philharmoniker – Leonard Bernstein – 1982, great compositions/performances

Brahms – Symphony No. 2 – Wiener Philharmoniker – Leonard Bernstein – 1982

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Published on Mar 4, 2013

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

I. Allegro non troppo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (00:42)
II. Adagio non troppo – L’istesso tempo, ma grazioso . . . (21:53)
III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) . . . . . . . . . . . . (34:41)
IV. Finale. Allegro con spirito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (40:13)

Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein

Recorded live at the Große Musikvereinssaal
Vienna, 1-6 September 1982

Nascut astazi, MArtie 20, 43 i.e.n: Publius Ovidius Naso (43 î.e.n. — 17 e.n.) – Statuia lui Ovidiu din Constanța

Statuia lui Ovidiu din Constanța

De la Wikipedia, enciclopedia liberă

 

 Statuia lui Ovidiu din Constanţa

Statuia lui Ovidiu din Constanța este un monument din orașul Constanța. A fost executată în 1887 de sculptorul italian Ettore Ferrari. O replică identică se află din 1925 la Sulmona (Italia).

Este așezată în partea veche a orașului, în Piața Ovidiu, în fața primei clădiri a Primăriei Constanța, azi Muzeului Național de Istorie și Arheologie, lângă portul Tomis.

Cu ceva timp în urmă,^[Când?] statuia lui Ovidiu a fost toaletată necorespunzător. ^[1]

 Statuia lui Ovidiu în anul 1941

Descriere

Primul dintre monumentele statuare ridicat la Constanța după reintrarea sub administrație românească este cel care îl înfățișează pe marele poet roman Publius Ovidius Naso (43 î.e.n. — 17 e.n.). Statuia din bronz îl înfățișează pe Ovidiu într-o atitudine adânc meditativă. Dezvelirea statuii, în august 1887, a prilejuit o adevărată sărbătoare la care au participat toți constănțenii, în frunte cu prefectul Remus Opreanu, inițiatorul „Comitetului pentru statuia lui Ovidiu”.

Statuia se află pe un soclu de marmură albă, pe care este încrustată o placă cu un text din „Tristele”.

„Sub astă piatră zace Ovidiu cântărețul

Iubirilor gingașe răpus de al său talent.

O, tu ce treci pe aicea și dacă ai iubit vreodată

Te roagă pentru dânsul sa-i fie somnul lin.”

Inițial statuia a fost amplasată cu fața spre nord, construcția Palatului Primăriei impunând, în 1921, mutarea pe actualul loc. În cursul ocupației Germano-Bulgare, în anii 1916-1918, statuia a fost dată jos de pe soclu de armata bulgară, pentru a fi luată ca pradă de război, dar intervenția unor ofițeri germani a oprit originala “inițiativă culturală”; până la revenirea autorităților românești, în noiembrie 1918, statuia a fost adăpostită în subsolul Primăriei. În 1925, o replică fidelă a acestei opere a fost dezvelită în orașul natal al poetului – Sulmona.

Statue of Ovid in Constanta:
(translated by Google Translate) 

Statue of Ovidiu Constanta Constanta is a monument in the city. He was executed in 1887 by the Italian sculptor Ettore Ferrari. A replica is from 1925 to Sulmona (Italy).

It is situated in the old town, Ovidiu Square, in front of the first building of Constanta City Hall, today the National Museum of History and Archaeology, near the port Tomis.

Some time ago, [when?] Ovid’s statue was inadequate taken care of. [1]
Statue of Ovid in 1941
DescriptionThe first statutory monuments raised in Constanta after re under Romanian administration is one that depicts the great Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD). The bronze statue depicts Ovidiu a deep meditative attitude. Unveiling the statue, in August 1887 brought about a veritable feast attended by all Constantenii, headed by the Prefect Remus Opreanu initiator “Ovid’s statue Committee”.The statue stands on a pedestal of white marble, which is encrusted plate with a text of “Tristia”. 

“Under this stone lies Ovidiu singer
Tender love succumbed to his talent.
O you who pass by and if you ever loved aicea
I pray for him to be his gentle sleep. “

Originally the statue was placed facing north, requiring the construction of the Palace Hall in 1921, moving to the current place. In the German-Bulgarian occupation in the years 1916-1918, the statue was taken down from the pedestal of the Bulgarian army, to be taken as war booty, but the intervention of German officers stopped the original “cultural values”; to return Romanian authorities in November 1918, the statue was housed in the basement of City Hall. In 1925, a replica of this work was unveiled in hometown of poet – Sulmona.

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.

Today in History
March 20

1413		Henry IV of England is succeed by his son Henry V.
1739		In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne.
1760		The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
1792		In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine.
1815		Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris and begins his 100-day rule.
1841		Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published.
1852		Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
1906		Army officers in Russia mutiny at Sevastopol.
1915		The French call off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front.
1918		The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army.
1922		President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.
1932		The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule.
1939		President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court.
1940		The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.
1943		The Allies attack Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa.
1965		President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.
1969		Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan.
1976		Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.
1982		U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.
1987		The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS.
Born on March 20
43BC		Ovid, Roman poet.
1811		Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt.
1828		Henrik Isben, Norwegian dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler).
1904		B.F. Skinner, American psychologist.
1917		Dame Vera Lynn , British singer.
1922		Raymond Walter Goulding, Radio comedian of Bob and Ray fame.
1925		John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon.
1928		Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood).
1957		Shelton ‘Spike’ Lee, film director (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X).

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today’s image: USS Langley

USS Langley

On March 20, 1922, the 11,500-ton Langley was commissioned into the U.S. Navy as America’s first aircraft carrier. Langley was not regarded as a beautiful ship. Her flight deck was 533 feet long and 64 feet wide with an open-sided hanger deck, inspiring the nickname ‘the Old Covered Wagon.’ Under the leadership of Commander Kenneth Whiting, Langley served as a base for reconnaissance aircraft and a laboratory to develop new procedures for launching and recovering planes, such as the use of cross-deck arresting wires to brake incoming aircraft. This photograph shows a Douglas DT-2 airplane taking off from her flight deck.

Photo: U.S. Naval Historical Center

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Saint of the Day for Friday, March 20th, 2015: Bl. John of Parma

Saint of the Day for Friday, March 20th, 2015

Bl. John of Parma

John Buralli, the seventh minister general of the Franciscans, was born at Parma in the year 1209, and he was already teaching logic there when at the age of twenty-five, he joined the Franciscans. … continue reading

More Saints of the Day

Bl. John of Parma St. Alexandra and Companions St. Anastasius XVI St. Archippus St. Benignus St. Cuthbert St. Herbert of Derwentwater St. John, Sergius, & Companions St. Josef Bilczewski

St. Maria Josefa Sancho de Guerra St. Martin of Braga St. Nicetas St. Paul and Companions St. Photina St. Tetricus St. Urbitius St. William of Penacorada St. Wulfram of Sens

today’s holiday: Alahamady Be (2015)

Alahamady Be (2015)

Alahamady Be is New Year’s Day in Madagascar. The Malagasy new year traditionally begins in March, with the appearance of the year’s first new moon. People put on their best clothes, feast, give presents, and sing religious songs. The celebration is particularly festive in the capital city of Antananarivo. The townspeople make their way to the sacred royal hill known as Ambohimanga to offer prayers to the departed. When these devotions are completed, it’s time to eat. The feasting is an opportunity for families and friends to get together and wish each other luck in the coming year. More… Discuss