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“Oh, Friends, not These Tones! Let Us Raise Our Voices in More Pleasing and More Joyful Sounds” Ludwig Van Beethoven “Ode to Joy” (lyrics) to Alumni of Bow Valley College Class of Winter 2013.

Listen to the beautiful sound of Beethoven’s :CPO “Ode to Joy” This time we are at the Jack Singer Hall where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra usually performs and music was dedicated on January 28, 2013 to all who graduated from the Calgary and Region’s only comprehensive community college, Bow Valley College. Fast,focused, and flexible, creating work-ready graduates…

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“Your Letter Was Like a Song to My Ears…”wrote Svetlana Ivanova to Lev Mishchenko (About the Book “Just Send Me Word” by Orlando Figes, Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2012.

To comprehend this book about the relationship of two young Russian people who lived at that pre-war, war-time and post-war time, different in many ways, it is necessary to try to immerse at that time at least for a while, which myself I was a witness too but just a child. Svetlana Ivanova was born…

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