遥远的无线电电波终于收到了，发贴庆贺下

今天终于收到了 VOR FOR AUST  的JAZZ MUSIC栏目。1530-1600，频率17805，万里之外的无线电波让我激动不已。

在那遥远的地方，真是音乐的海洋。比原子小微小的电子波动。带领音符的起起落落。
有音乐爱好者，可以听听。MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO 1812 WAR
In the history of any country we can find events that will forever stay in the people’s memory spawning a wealth of legends, songs, novels and, of course, music. The 1812 war with Napoleon is exactly one such event…

In June 1812 the 420,000-strong Grand Armee of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte crossed the Nieman River and entered the territory of the Russian Empire. Russians had long anticipated this but the perfidious attack still came as a shock…

Seeing his top commanders failing to beat back the advancing enemy, Emperor Alexander I turned to the old but hugely popular Mikhail Kutuzov. Shortly after the one-eyed Field Marshal arrived in the army much to the delight of the soldiers wearied by a long retreat… Leo Tolstoy captured this moment very vividly in his War and Peace epic which, in turn, inspired Sergei Prokofiev’s famous opera of the same name…

By late August 1812 the French troops were already closing in on Moscow and on September 7 they faced off with the Russian army at Borodino in what General Alexei Yermolov, who also was there, later described as the bloodiest battle ever fought. In his missive to Alexander I Yermolov reported the Russians had lost 20 Generals, 1,800 officers and up to 36,000 soldiers with the French losses amounting to 30 Generals and way more officers and soldiers.

In a poem about that battle Mikhail Lermontov extols the Russian soldiers who put their lives on the line for the sake of their country…

The death of the courageous General Pyotr Bagration was one of the biggest losses the Russian army suffered at Borodino. General Yermolov left behind the following account of that tragic moment…

“Admired by the soldiers, Prince Bagration suffered a fatal wound but held back the pain until the very end so that his men would not lose their nerve… Finally, unable to bear the excruciating pain any longer, he lost his balance an started slipping down from his horse… Dozens of eager hands immediately went up to hold him… The rumor of his death spread like a brushfire and it only took the timely intervention of General Dokhturov to prevent widespread panic…”

They later wrote an ode to the fallen hero…

The battle at Borodino literally bled the two armies white. Realizing that one more such battle and Russia would have no one left to fight, Field Marshal Kutuzov made the hard decision to fall back and leave Moscow to the mercy of the enemy, thus winning time to put together a new army and finish off the invader.

The decision to give up Moscow did not come easy of course but, as we all know now, it was the only right decision to be made under the circumstances…

Sergei Prokofiev masterfully conveyed in music those painful moments in his War and Peace opera…

Before very long the victorious Russian troops chased out the French invaders and eventually marched though the streets of Paris singing the following ditties…

The 1812 war spawned a multitude of songs many of which are still popular today. During the 1950s composer Alexander Mosolov put the best songs together and used them in his string quartet.

After the 1812 war they were erecting monuments to its heroes all across Russia, the biggest such tribute being Christ the Savior’s Cathedral in downtown Moscow built on people’s donations. The walls displayed more than 1,000 square meters of Carrara marble plaques listing major commanders, regiments, and battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 with the lists of awards and casualties appended.
The Cathedral was consecrated on the very day Emperor Alexander III was crowned, on May 26, 1883. A year earlier, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted there.
The 1812 Overture was a resounding success and it can still be heard today during solemn occasions impressing everyone with its beauty, power, the ringing of bells and cannon salvoes…




04.09.2007


MATERIALS ON THE THEME


03.09.2008, 16:18 FOREIGN MUSICIANS IN RUSSIA


看样子17805在中国很好收，今天下大雨，我只用了房间内几米长线天线。就收到了，如果是更长的天线。效果更了得


还听到点不爽的新闻。
US-SOUTH KOREAN WAR GAMES WILL DESTABILIZE SITUATION ON KOREAN PENINSULA
The United States and South Korea have agreed to soon hold joint large-scale naval war games in a bid to, notably, drill interaction between the two countries’ Marine Corps headquarters.

The exercises, due to be held off the South Korean port of Pkhokhan sea zone, will see the joint interaction of a total 27 warships and 30 combat and cargo helicopters – something that has already prompted military experts to call the event the biggest airborne drill ever on the South Korean soil.

In a clear show of flexing military muscles before Pyongyang, the commander of the US contingent in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, said that “ we need to demonstrate that our armed forces are able to brilliantly cope with a task of fulfilling a large-scale amphibious military operation.”
Similar saber-rattling by Washington and Seoul are patently out of sync with the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula, which in the last few months has seen a significant revival of mutual trust pending six-party negotiations. Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas have luckily managed to arrive at a political accommodation in tackling the North Korean nuclear problem, which have to date added to tarnishing ties between the North, the US and its staunch allies. At the end of the day, Pyongyang agreed to start dismantling its atomic facilities in exchange for several US-initiated moves aimed at rendering economic aid to the North and erasing it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Needless to say that under this fragile peace-leaning situation, all the parties concerned should refrain from making any security-unfriendly steps – a wishful thinking that now sadly shows no signs of being realized. In Moscow, South-East Asia expert Konstantin Asmolov also complains that Washington and Seoul moved to hold the joint military exercise – something that he warned might well cloud the mutual warm ties.

Washington’s strong drive to continue to build up its military muscles in South-East Asia is easy to explain, Asmilov argues, adding that it is in the White House’s interests to fuel tensions on the Koran Peninsula. A cynical real politik suggests that it is China and Russia, not the United States, that should grapple with the North Korean nuclear issue, which, in addition, may well justify the current deployment of US troops in Japan and the South. It seems that Washington is loath to openly admit that now that the world order has substantially changed, the Bush administration continues to be involved in confrontation with Russia and China. Instead, White House hardliners have repeatedly referred to citing plausible security threats allegedly emanating from North Korea’s totalitarian regime….

Eugeny Kryshkin今天终于收到了 VOR FOR AUST  的JAZZ MUSIC栏目。1530-1600，频率17805，万里之外的无线电波让我激动不已。

在那遥远的地方，真是音乐的海洋。比原子小微小的电子波动。带领音符的起起落落。
有音乐爱好者，可以听听。MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO 1812 WAR
In the history of any country we can find events that will forever stay in the people’s memory spawning a wealth of legends, songs, novels and, of course, music. The 1812 war with Napoleon is exactly one such event…

In June 1812 the 420,000-strong Grand Armee of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte crossed the Nieman River and entered the territory of the Russian Empire. Russians had long anticipated this but the perfidious attack still came as a shock…

Seeing his top commanders failing to beat back the advancing enemy, Emperor Alexander I turned to the old but hugely popular Mikhail Kutuzov. Shortly after the one-eyed Field Marshal arrived in the army much to the delight of the soldiers wearied by a long retreat… Leo Tolstoy captured this moment very vividly in his War and Peace epic which, in turn, inspired Sergei Prokofiev’s famous opera of the same name…

By late August 1812 the French troops were already closing in on Moscow and on September 7 they faced off with the Russian army at Borodino in what General Alexei Yermolov, who also was there, later described as the bloodiest battle ever fought. In his missive to Alexander I Yermolov reported the Russians had lost 20 Generals, 1,800 officers and up to 36,000 soldiers with the French losses amounting to 30 Generals and way more officers and soldiers.

In a poem about that battle Mikhail Lermontov extols the Russian soldiers who put their lives on the line for the sake of their country…

The death of the courageous General Pyotr Bagration was one of the biggest losses the Russian army suffered at Borodino. General Yermolov left behind the following account of that tragic moment…

“Admired by the soldiers, Prince Bagration suffered a fatal wound but held back the pain until the very end so that his men would not lose their nerve… Finally, unable to bear the excruciating pain any longer, he lost his balance an started slipping down from his horse… Dozens of eager hands immediately went up to hold him… The rumor of his death spread like a brushfire and it only took the timely intervention of General Dokhturov to prevent widespread panic…”

They later wrote an ode to the fallen hero…

The battle at Borodino literally bled the two armies white. Realizing that one more such battle and Russia would have no one left to fight, Field Marshal Kutuzov made the hard decision to fall back and leave Moscow to the mercy of the enemy, thus winning time to put together a new army and finish off the invader.

The decision to give up Moscow did not come easy of course but, as we all know now, it was the only right decision to be made under the circumstances…

Sergei Prokofiev masterfully conveyed in music those painful moments in his War and Peace opera…

Before very long the victorious Russian troops chased out the French invaders and eventually marched though the streets of Paris singing the following ditties…

The 1812 war spawned a multitude of songs many of which are still popular today. During the 1950s composer Alexander Mosolov put the best songs together and used them in his string quartet.

After the 1812 war they were erecting monuments to its heroes all across Russia, the biggest such tribute being Christ the Savior’s Cathedral in downtown Moscow built on people’s donations. The walls displayed more than 1,000 square meters of Carrara marble plaques listing major commanders, regiments, and battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 with the lists of awards and casualties appended.
The Cathedral was consecrated on the very day Emperor Alexander III was crowned, on May 26, 1883. A year earlier, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted there.
The 1812 Overture was a resounding success and it can still be heard today during solemn occasions impressing everyone with its beauty, power, the ringing of bells and cannon salvoes…




04.09.2007


MATERIALS ON THE THEME


03.09.2008, 16:18 FOREIGN MUSICIANS IN RUSSIA


看样子17805在中国很好收，今天下大雨，我只用了房间内几米长线天线。就收到了，如果是更长的天线。效果更了得


还听到点不爽的新闻。
US-SOUTH KOREAN WAR GAMES WILL DESTABILIZE SITUATION ON KOREAN PENINSULA
The United States and South Korea have agreed to soon hold joint large-scale naval war games in a bid to, notably, drill interaction between the two countries’ Marine Corps headquarters.

The exercises, due to be held off the South Korean port of Pkhokhan sea zone, will see the joint interaction of a total 27 warships and 30 combat and cargo helicopters – something that has already prompted military experts to call the event the biggest airborne drill ever on the South Korean soil.

In a clear show of flexing military muscles before Pyongyang, the commander of the US contingent in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, said that “ we need to demonstrate that our armed forces are able to brilliantly cope with a task of fulfilling a large-scale amphibious military operation.”
Similar saber-rattling by Washington and Seoul are patently out of sync with the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula, which in the last few months has seen a significant revival of mutual trust pending six-party negotiations. Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas have luckily managed to arrive at a political accommodation in tackling the North Korean nuclear problem, which have to date added to tarnishing ties between the North, the US and its staunch allies. At the end of the day, Pyongyang agreed to start dismantling its atomic facilities in exchange for several US-initiated moves aimed at rendering economic aid to the North and erasing it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Needless to say that under this fragile peace-leaning situation, all the parties concerned should refrain from making any security-unfriendly steps – a wishful thinking that now sadly shows no signs of being realized. In Moscow, South-East Asia expert Konstantin Asmolov also complains that Washington and Seoul moved to hold the joint military exercise – something that he warned might well cloud the mutual warm ties.

Washington’s strong drive to continue to build up its military muscles in South-East Asia is easy to explain, Asmilov argues, adding that it is in the White House’s interests to fuel tensions on the Koran Peninsula. A cynical real politik suggests that it is China and Russia, not the United States, that should grapple with the North Korean nuclear issue, which, in addition, may well justify the current deployment of US troops in Japan and the South. It seems that Washington is loath to openly admit that now that the world order has substantially changed, the Bush administration continues to be involved in confrontation with Russia and China. Instead, White House hardliners have repeatedly referred to citing plausible security threats allegedly emanating from North Korea’s totalitarian regime….

Eugeny Kryshkin