Strange Arrangements: Beethoven With A Salsa Beat

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This salsa-fied Beethoven video has been making the rounds lately — a very spicy arrangement of the opening movement of the Fifth Symphony with an uncommon twist (an infectious mix of mambo and son rhythms) on Beethoven's famous symphony...

6 Things I Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google

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Some of the tips below are effortless to implement and save you a lot of time and energy when dealing with these issues. Let’s start with the first proof of the awesomeness of Google…

Amazing Wartime Facts from WWII

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Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army....

Voyager - Music From Earth

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If you had to sum up what Earth is like, what would you say? How would you describe the abundance and diversity of life? How would you summarize all the achievements of mankind? Now, suppose that you were asked to communicate this information to someone who does not speak your language, nor indeed any language that you have ever heard of. Suppose, further, that your audience is apt to interpret pictures, sounds, or symbols in ways that you could not even begin to anticipate. Finally, suppose that this communication must take place via a "message in a bottle", sent off into space, to wash up on some distant "shore", at some inconceivably distant time in the future.

Does this sound far fetched? Well, it shouldn't. This very exercise was carried out in the mid-seventies by a team of scientists with a unique opportunity to send such a message off into space on a pair of spacecraft; the two Viking probes, launched in 1977, that were deployed to explore Jupiter and Saturn. On each of the probes was a gold-plated "phonograph record" that contained a succinct summary of Earth and humanity. The significance of these particular probes was that they were destined to head off into boundless space at the conclusion of their mission. Thus, they were to become the first man-made artifacts to leave the solar system. This was too fantastic an opportunity to miss; "we" (humans) simply had to send a greeting card to whomever/whatever may find the probes.- Amazon

Music On Voyager Record....

16th Asian Games Opening Ceremony in Guangzhou Part -5

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The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asiad, was a multi-sport event in Guangzhou, China that began on 12 November and finished on 27 November 2010. Guangzhou was the second Chinese city to host the Games, after Beijing in 1990.

A total of 476 events in 42 sports was contested by athletes, making it the largest event in the history of the Games. It was also the last iteration of the Games to have featured such big events, as the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) have enforced new hosting rules for future games, beginning with the 2014 Games.

The opening and closing ceremonies were held along the Pearl River in Haixinsha Island, and was the first time in history that the opening ceremony for a major sports event was not held inside a stadium. - wikipedia


Program: Guangzhou 2010 Asia Game
Series: Opening Gala
Episode: 05 - The Age of Light

Voyager Record

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If you could toss a bottle out into space, what message would you seal into it for anyone -- or any thing -- to open some day far away from our solar system? NASA's two Voyager spacecraft bound for interstellar space carry answers offered by some humans before the Voyagers launched 25 years ago....

Patrick Cassidy 'Vide Cor Meum' ~ Hannibal

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Vide Cor Meum is a song composed by Patrick Cassidy, a brilliant Irish composer, based on Dante's "La Vita Nuova", specifically on the sonnet "A ciascun'alma presa", in chapter 3 of the Vita Nuova.

The song was produced by Patrick Cassidy and Hans Zimmer and was performed by Libera / Lyndhurst Orchestrathe, conducted by Gavin Greenaway. Singers are Danielle de Niese and Bruno Lazzaretti, who play Beatrice and Dante, respectively.

The song first appeared in the movie Hannibal (2001), while Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Inspector Pazzi see an outdoor opera in Florence, and was specially composed for the movie. This aria was chosen to be performed at the Oscars in 2002 during the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to producer Dino De Laurentiis and at the 53rd Annual Emmy awards.

It was also used in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), during King Baldwin IV's funeral. - wikipedia




(Chorus: Pensando di lei
Mi E sopragiunse uno soave sono)

Ego dominus tuus
Vide cor tuum
E d'esto core ardendo
Cor tuum

(Chorus: Lei paventosa)

Umilmente pascea.
Appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.
La letizia si convertia
In amarissimo pianto
Io sono in pace
Cor meum
Io sono in pace
Vide cor meum


(Chorus: And thinking of her
Sweet sleep overcame me)

I am your master
See your heart
And of this burning heart
Your heart

(Chorus: She trembling)

Obediently eats.
Weeping, I saw him then depart from me.
Joy is converted
To bitterest tears
I am in peace
My heart
I am in peace
See my heart

- Vide Cor Meum.



To every loving heart and captive soul
into whose sight these present words may come
for some elucidation in reply,
greetings I bring for their sweet lord’s sake, Love.
The first three hours of night were almost spent,
the time that every star shines down on us,
when Love appeared to me all of a sudden
and I still shudder at the memory.
Joyous love looked to me while he was holding
my heart within his hands, and in his arms
my lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient
she ate that burning heart out of his hand;
weeping I saw him then depart from me.

- Sonnet 1, Il Vite Nuovo, Dante Aligheri.

ABOUT THE LYRICS
The words to Vide Cor Meum were taken from Dante's La Vita Nuova (The New Life) where Dante describes his first forays into poetry. Vide Cor Meum is concerned with the first sonnet where Dante describes a vision he had and asks for help in interpreting it.

As Dante tells it, when he was 9, he became quite smitten with a little girl he called Beatrice. He only saw her in passing but was soon obsessed with her. Nine years later, he sees her again. This time she says hello and Love overwhelms poor Dante. He goes back to his room and "thinking of her, sweet sleep overcame" him. Then he sees the vision of Love holding a woman (Beatrice) who is wrapped in a veil. Love says, "I am your master."

In one of Love's hands there is a heart on fire and he says to Dante, "Vide cor tuum: See your heart". Then Love wakes Beatrice and feeds Dante's burning heart to her which she reluctantly eats.
Love, then, becomes very sad and takes Beatrice with him up toward heaven.

Dante never tells us what it means. In fact, the sonnet asks for possible interpretations. One such interpretation was recorded by Dante's good friend Cavalcanti who suggested that falling in love was, on the lady's part, a sad event and perhaps a prelude to her death.

Both Dante and Beatrice married other people and Beatrice died at the age of 24. Dante wrote La Vita Nuova about 2 years later. It was right about at that time when Dante was becoming interested in philosophy and politics.

One theory suggests that Beatrice might have been a symbol of some secret Florentine political society but I don't know enough about that to make any sense of it. What makes the most sense to me now is that Beatrice was Dante's muse. - hannibal.hannotations

A video tribute to Hannibal Lecter with the classical opera song Vide Cor Meum from the soundtrack of The Silence Of The Lambs

See Through Deep Into

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Make the connection between the items which are common to each piece and the point/theme the artist is trying to convey.

What literally connects the pieces together? It’s amazing how our minds automatically fill in the gap. The suitcase/briefcase/guitar case is part of the whole statement about what the sculptor is trying to express.

Book-A-Minute Classics

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Book-A-Minute Classics

All kinds of great works of literature boiled down to their essence, extracting all the filler (and believe me, there's a lot of it sometimes), a collection of ultra-condensed books. Everything from Shakespeare to Steinbeck! See for yourself! In just one minute, you can read entire books and learn everything your teachers will expect you to know.





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