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Like Father, Like Daughter “The Art of Standing Still”, April 5, 1939, Pritomnost by Milena Jesenska (About the Book “The Journalism of Milena Jesenska” , a Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe, edited by Kathleen Hayes, Berghahn Books, New York-Oxford, 2003)

Czech journalist Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) wrote in her article for the “Pritomnost” about “The Art of Standing Still”: “So when I was a young girl, I lived on the corner of the 28th of October Street and Na perikope Street, and Wenceslav Square lay right under our windows. The tension between the Czechs and the…

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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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