The Music of Cosmos
This event aims to express a cultural conjunction of Bach’s compositional chords and the existential, not so much technical, experience of cosmic flights. Both basically reveal the same eternal human longing: the sublimation of the earthly, limited human condition through
Democracy as Form of Life
Democracy as Form of Life In 1993, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner published the book The Global Resurgence of Democracy, in which different authors shared, with unconcealed satisfaction, the diagnosis according to which “democracy’s third wave” takes place worldwide
Patriarch Of Romanian Geology
Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History and Geology Museum and Institute The beginnings of Romanian geology and paleontology are closely connected to the name of a great scholar, who opened up the way: Gregoriu Stefanescu. An extremely complex scientist, whose contribution
Where Is Ascona?
The three of them are filling in soccer betting slips and drinking cold beer. About the beer they seem to agree. Over the match results there is much argument. Cut my head off if these don't lose, the one in an otter fur hat says. The one in the very large rimmed hat
A Hero Without His Right Wing
Far from his country, across the ocean, in 1957, while he conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in New York, conductor Ionel Perlea had a heart attack. He had the courage and most of all the strength to go on conducting until he finished the Ode to Joy, after which he
I May Count Myself As Having Been Born Under A Lucky Star
As early as my years of instruction, while at The Academy of Music in Bucharest – as part of the group of the grand and incomparable professional singer and mentor Constantin Stroescu (Enrico Caruso's partner in Boston, 1915, in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci) – destiny
Outline Of The History, Customs And Language Of The Gypsies
excerpts All chronicles show that this nomadic people appeared first in Moldavia; indeed, in order to come to Europe from India, they had to cross the Black Sea, which Moldavia used to border on at that time. In 1417, in the 19th year of the rule of Alexander the Good,
The Foreigners And The Modernization Of Bucharest
excerpts Short overview The modernization of Bucharest was a complex and dynamic historical process, spanning roughly the interval between 1848-1948, a period when the process of modernization of the Romanian society in its totality revolved around the town of Bucharest