Stravinsky as a Russian

Tempo ◽  
1967 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Pierre Souvtchinsky ◽  
John Warrack

What can one say, with what words should one address Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky on his eighty-fifth birthday, a day for the greatest rejoicing both in his personal life and in his life as an artist? We must express infinite gratitude to him (but can it be expressed in words?), for it is essential that he should know that notwithstanding his world-wide recognition, he is, and always will be, both as a man and as a composer, one of the great mysteries of world culture, and in particular of Russian culture, a mystery that will live forever, that will always be subject to fresh interpretations and that will always be needed. His secret—which cannot really be explained—is first and foremost the secret of his genius, the mysterious unexpectedness and the marvel of his appearance in the music of Russia and the world. As Tolstoy said: “Genius is that which cannot be called anything else but genius!” Its basic characteristics, moreover, are unpredictability and self-evidence.

Author(s):  
Ольга Николаевна Филиппова

Мстислав Валерианович Добужинский (1875–1957) относится к художникам, творчество которых принадлежит как русской, так и мировой культуре. Он родился и жил в России, затем в Литве, Америке, многие годы провел в европейских странах – Англии, Франции, Италии. Испытав влияние различных художественных школ и направлений, творчество М.В. Добужинского тем не менее сохраняет цельность, в основе которой лежит верность русской культуре – ее темам и художественным принципам, сложившимся в начале XX века в «Мире искусства». Своеобразный творческий метод М.В. Добужинского складывается в жанре городского пейзажа. Тот факт, что в ретроспективных картинах мирискусников главным лирическим героем оказывается пейзаж, чаще всего архитектурный по характеру, видимо повлиял и на возникновение в творчестве М.В. Добужинского темы города – памятника культуры. В отличие от своих друзей художник остается равнодушен к изображению архитектуры в ретроспективных картинах, предпочитая показывать жизнь прошлого в современности. Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (1875 – 1957) refers to the artists whose work belongs to both the Russian and world culture. He was born and lived in Russia, then in Lithuania, America, spent many years in European countries – England, France, Italy. Having experienced the influence of various art schools and trends, the work of M. V. Dobuzhinsky nevertheless retains integrity, which is based on loyalty to Russian culture – its themes and artistic principles established in the early XX century in the «World of art». A kind of creative method of M. V. Dobuzhinsky is in the genre of the urban landscape. As in the retrospective paintings of the members of the main lyrical hero is the landscape, often architectural in character, it seems to have affected the appearance in the works of M. V. Dobuzhinsky themes of the city – cultural monument. Unlike his friends, the artist remains indifferent to the image of architecture in retrospect paintings, preferring to show the life of the past in modern times.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-159
Author(s):  
Jatinder Kataria ◽  
Saroj Kumar Mohapatra ◽  
Amit Pal

The limited fossil reserves, spiraling price and environmental impact due to usage of fossil fuels leads the world wide researchers’ interest in using alternative renewable and environment safe fuels that can meet the energy demand. Biodiesel is an emerging renewable alternative fuel to conventional diesel which can be produced from both edible and non-edible oils, animal fats, algae etc. The society is in dire need of using renewable fuels as an immediate control measure to mitigate the pollution level. In this work an attempt is made to review the requisite and access the capability of the biodiesel in improving the environmental degradation.


2019 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
D. A. Bogdanova

The article provides an overview of the activities of the European Union Forum on kids' safety in Internet — Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2019, which was held in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2019. The current Internet risks addressed by the World Wide Web users, especially children, are described.


The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.


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