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While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
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Održan je koncert Aleksandre Denda

Beograđanka Aleksandre Denda sinoć je uz desetočlani bend predstavila svoj autorski album "Dreamer", jedinstvenu kombinaciju akustičnih i elektro elemenata uz primese neo soula, džeza i R&B-a. Kao predstavnica eminentne njujorške organizacije umetnika LeitmotivArts, Aleksandra je prepun klub oduševila kako svojim glasom tako i fantastičnim kompozicijama i tekstovima koji nikoga nisu ostavili ravnodušnim.

Brojna publika, koja je bila mešavina svih generacija i raznih kultura, nije krila oduševljenjue umećem ove velike pevačice, osetivši u njenim pesmama iskrenost i autentičnost, ljubav, lepotu, traganje i unutrašnje prevrate.

Aleksandra Denda je džez i neosoul pevačica i kantautorka koja trenutno živi i stvara u Njujorku. Ova beograđanka već godinama nastupa i snima širom Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, Evrope i Azije. Kao kreator i glas benda Aleksandra Denda Group, neguje zvuke soul-a, džeza, R&B-a ali i note Južne Amerike - brazilijane. Ona je takođe i suosnivač vokalne grupe ROSA, koja je jedina autentično-srpska a capella grupa na američkom kontinentu.

Nakon završenog američkog muzičkog koledža Berklee, ona izdaje prvi autorski album "Dreamer", jedinstvenu kombinaciju akustičnih i elektro elemenata uz primese neo soula, džeza i R&B-a. Ovaj album predstavlja jedinstvenu kombinaciju akustičnih i elektro elemenata uz primese neo soula, džeza i R&B-a.

Na albumu je šest numera koje krase nebeske harmonije i pronicljivi tekstovi čiji je autor ova beogradska umetnica, a koje je producirao inovativni Giosue Greco iz Los Anđelesa. Među pesmama se nalazi i singl "In the Dark", koji je pre proglašen za pesmu dana od strane The Main Ingredient Radio.

Izdavanju ovog debitantskog albuma prethodilo je obrazovanje na Berklee College of Music u Bostonu. Nedugo zatim su usledile mnogobrojne saradnje sa istaknutim muzičkim umetnicima sa svih strana sveta, koje su je 2015. godine odvele čak do Indije gde je predavala muziku na Global Musić Institute-u u Nju Delhiju. Neki od njenih projekata uključuju i saradnju sa Majklom Linčom (poznatijem kao Big Mike), bivšim učesnikom Američkog idola kao i snimanje sa zvezdom flamenka Hoseom Maršeom na albumu "Mi Unića Llave", nominovanom za Latinoamerički Gremi.

"Pravo je zadovoljstvo raditi sa svestranim umetnicima kao što je Aleksandra Denda. Sarađivale smo na više projekata, što džez što etno muzike, uključujući i humanitarine događaje na kojima je Aleksandra prvenstveno pokazala da je osoba širokog srca tako da smo vrlo brzo pronašle zajednički jezik. Ovakvi umetnici, kojim se možemo i moramo ponositi, daju vrhunski doprinos nacionalnoj kulturi. Srećna sam što sam u prilici da dunem vetar u jedra ovakvim ljudima i talentima svetskih razmera u kojima vidim nadu u bolju budućnost." - navodi Danijela Milić, osnivač LeitmotivArts-a.

Aleksandra je publiku obradovala i hitom "Already Here" koji se nalazi na albumu kao bonus traka. Ova kompozicija nastala je u saradnji sa indijskom kantautorkom Vasudom Šarmom a njihov zajednički spot je brzo nakon izlaženja 29. februara, postao predmet interesovanja MTV India i časopisa Rolling Stone India.

"Pesma Already Here preispituje ideju da se osećanje radosti i ispunjenja nalazi u budućnosti i želi da pokaže da je sadašnji trenutak od neprocenjive vrednosti"- ističe Aleksandra.

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James Scully

James Scully is the author of 10 books of poetry, including Donatello’s Version (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2007), four book-length translations, the seminal essay collection Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice (Curbstone Press/ Northwestern University Press, 1988/2005), and Vagabond Flags: Serbia & Kosovo: Journal, Scrapbook & Notes (Azul Editions, 2009). The founding editor of Art on the Line series (Curbstone Press, 1981-1986), he has been a key figure in the movement to radicalize the theory and practice of American poetry—in how it is lived as well as in how it is written.

Born in 1937 in New Haven, CT, Scully lives in Vermont with his wife, Arlene. They’ve been married since 1960 and have a son, John, and a daughter, Deirdre. His awards include a National Defense Fellowship 1959-1962; an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (Rome, Italy 1962-63); the Lamont Poetry Award 1967 for The Marches; the Jenny Taine Memorial Award 1971 for translation; a Guggenheim Fellowship (Santiago, Chile 1973-74); National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships 1976-77 and 1990; the Islands & Continents Translation Award 1980; and the Bookbuilders of Boston Award 1983 for book cover design.

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Notes On Ecumenism

Written in 1972 by St. Abba Justin Popovich, edited by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, translated from Serbian by Aleksandra Stojanovich, and proofread by Fr Miroljub Ruzich

Abba Justin’s manuscript legacy (on which Bishop Athanasius have been working for a couple of years preparing an edition of The Complete Works ), also includes a parcel of sheets/small sheets of paper (in the 1/4 A4 size) with the notes on Ecumenism (written in pencil and dating from the period when he was working on his book “The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism”; there are also references to the writings of St. Bishop Nikolai [Velimirovich], short excerpts copied from his Sermons, some of which were quoted in the book).

The editor presents the Notes authentically, as he has found them in the manuscripts (his words inserted in the text, as clarification, are put between the slashes /…/; all the footnotes are ours).—In the appendix are present the facsimiles of the majority of Abba’s Notes which were supposed to be included in his book On Ecumenism (written in haste then, but now significantly supplemented with these Notes. The Notes make evident the full extent of Justin’s profundity as a theologian and ecclesiologist of the authentic Orthodoxy).—The real Justin is present in these Notes: by his original language, style, literature, polemics, philosophy, theology, and above all by his confession of the God-man Christ and His Church. He confesses his faith, tradition, experience and his perspective on man, on the world and on Europe—invariably in the Church and from the Church, in the God-man Christ and from Him, just as he did in all of his writings and in his entire life and theologizing.