Brian and Cheryl are husband and wife, working at the Cranbrook Museum of Rail Travel. He issued the entrance tickets and programs (shown above) and then said addressing to us: “There she is, the dancing girl, your tour guide”. Before proceeding to the Museum we talked a little. Janko (1): Brian, can you remind us…
The fisherman with a big fish was our encounter when traveling on the trails ( his photo is shown here and a special song is also for him). The Fishing Song Inspired by the David Thompson Trail we started our hikes around the Fairmont Hot Springs: Historic, Orange Trail, Ktumaxa Trail, Mountain Creek Hike, Tukatas…
Listen to :Road to the Isles The trace they wished to leave, those daring, courageous pioneers is here, in Invermere. We invite you again on the trail of David Thompson. We are in the car, before the CPR overpass we turned left toward Panorama. Once over the Toby Creek Bridge we went right toward the…
The perception of culture is not only just to sit at the opera house listening to the wonderful music and watching the ballets. Or hanging around the vernissages. That is what is all very important and interesting. On the other hand, there is another way to explore a nation’s culture: to go outdoors, to open…
The photo of this book cover and the portrait of the artist are here: Fernando Botero Angulo (born on April 19, 1932 in Midellin, Antioquila, nationality: Colombian, field: Painter, Sculptor). Watch video:Fernando Botero On p.p. 154-64 is published the interview of Fernando Botero by Peter Stepan in Munich on may 8, 1986. Botero: I want…
One. The USA, Apple “genius”, Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs has died from cancer at age 56. He spent virtually his entire career in the public eye, co-founding Apple at age 21. He loved and hated his fame at times. Laurene Powell Jobs, whom Steve married in 1991, was rarely photographed with him. Each…
Watch video:Alla Pugacheva-“Once there lived one Artist…” The Russian theatre is the youngest one in Europe. It was founded on August 31, 1756 by the Highest Decree of the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The first performances were held in Russian by the guidance of Fedor Volkov at the house of Chancellor Golovkin on the Neva river…
Vaslav Nijinsky was not insane but he was a great creative personality. And how it happens in real life many artistic people are stressed out. That was what happened to him. A few extracts from his life: Watch video:From Vaslav Nijinsky’s Diaries “Vaslav Nijinsky’s appearances in “Chopiniana” with Karsavina and Pavlova cemented his fame as an…
Watch video:“La Fille du Pharaon” (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow) “Diana’s breast, the cheeks of Flora, Are charming, my dear friends, For me but a leg of Terpsihore, Is more attractive, I need confess. It is caressing my eye, imagination, The divine award of my desire, To promise by beauty the temptation, To be satisfied with passion…
Watch video:Hymne a l’Amour (Edith Piaff) Mathilde Kschessinskaya (1872-1971) was the greatest Russian ballerina of the classical period,of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty at the end of the nineteenth century, before the innovation styles of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. Mathilde was born on 19 August, 1972 in Ligovo, 9 miles west of St….