Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Phidylé (composed by Henri Duparc, text by Leconte de Lisle, 1889) in Moscow, 2005PhidyléL'herbe est molle au sommeil sous les frais peupliers,Aux pentes des sources moussues,Qui dans les prés en fleur germant par mille issues,Se perdent sous les noirs halliers.Repose, ô Phidylé! Midi sur les feuillagesRayonne et t'invite au sommeil.Par le trèfle et le thym, seules, en plein soleil,Chantent les abeilles volages.Un chaud parfum circule au détour des sentiers,La rouge fleur des blés s'incline,Et les oiseaux, rasant de l'aile la colline,Cherchent l'ombre des églantiers.Mais, quand l'Astre, incliné sur sa courbe éclatante,Verra ses ardeurs s'apaiser,Que ton plus beau sourire et ton meilleur baiserMe récompensent de l'attente!PhidyléThe grass is soft for slumber beneath the fresh poplars,on the slopes by the mossy springs,which, in the meadows flowering with a thousand plants,lose themselves under dark thickets.Rest, o Phidylé! the midday sun shines on the foliageand invites you to sleep!Among clover and thyme, alone, in full sunlighthum the fickle honeybees.A warm fragrance circulates about the turning paths,the red cornflower tilts,and the birds, skimming the hill with their wings,search for shade among the wild roses.But when the sun, turning in its resplendent orbit,finds its heat abating,let your loveliest smile and your most ardent kissrecompense me for waiting! [ More Detail ]
The back story on this is that a girl named Olga was out with her friends in the Marina district of San Francisco (known for being a popular hang out for douches), and she talked to this guy named Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him her card and said "give me a call." The above is the messages he left. Listen to the whole thing, it just keeps getting better and better. I won't even tell you my favorite parts because i don't want to ruin anything. Just listen.Recently we posted the phone messages that knucklehead "Dimitri" left for a girl named Olga. (I've listened to it in awe three times. The best part is the next day Gary Cooper-like high noon ultimatum.) The messages have spread on the web like influenza.I was curious and did a little digging. It turns he is a "disgraced former doctor" named James Sears from Toronto. He calls himself "Dimitri the Lover." And the wheels are coming of the wagon quickly. His comeuppance is coming. Swift and sure.He has been selling a "seduction manual" to losers in Toronto on how to seduce woman. And has held seminars -- at $40 bucks a pop -- to "teach" men tricks of the pick-up artist trade. Toronto newspaper The Sun wrote an expose on the guy last week.James had his medical license stripped for "repeated sexual misconduct" sixteen years ago. His website has a radio interview where he uses the catchphrases "elegant" and "couldn't take my eyes of you" repeatedly. Just ridiculous.Ladies, especially those of you in the Loyal 77 that read my columns, please be wary of any man that says, "You look so elegant. I just couldn't take my eyes off you." Kick that guy in the grapes.http://torontorealmen.com/ [ More Detail ]
Dmitri HvorostovskyDark Eyes (F. Hermann - E. Grebinka - F. Chaliapin)Andrew AtroshenkoMusic and Painting***************************Dark Eyes (Russian: Очи чёрные, Ochi chyornye; English translation: Black Eyes; French translation: Les yeux noirs) is a Russian song.The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka (Ukrainian: Євген Павлович Гребінка) (1812-1848). The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843.The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage (in an arrangement by S. Gerdel') and published as a romance on 7 March 1884.Although often characterised as a Russian gypsy song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian and a German. Feodor Chaliapin popularised the song abroad in a version amended by himself.*************************Andrew Atroshenko was born in 1965 in the city of Pokrovsk, Russia. Accepted as a gifted child in 1977 into the Children's Art School, Andrew graduated with honors in 1981.Since 2000, Andrew has worked with dealers from Western Europe and the US, exhibiting and selling his paintings in such US cities as Carmel, Scottsdale, Palm Desert, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Two of Andrew's pieces were also auctioned off by Sotheby's in 2002 and 2003. [ More Detail ]
Dmitri Hvorostovski - Alexander Borodin - "Prince Igor"...........................Viktor Vasnetsov...........................Music and Painting***************************Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (31 October/12 November 1833 -- 15 February/27 February 1887) was a Russian composer of Georgian-Russian parentage who made his living as a notable chemist. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music. He is best known for his symphonies, his opera Prince Igor, and for later providing the musical inspiration for the musical Kismet.*************************************Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов) (May 15 (N.S.), 1848— Moscow, June 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. [ More Detail ]
Google Tech TalksApril, 3 2008ABSTRACTjQuery is a JavaScript library that stands out among its competitorsbecause it is faster, focuses on writing less code, and is veryextensible. In this talk, I will explore jQuery and how to use it. Iwill start off talking about the basics of using jQuery. Then, I willtalk about building plugins. Finally, time permitting, I will takeapart some plugins and talk about how they work, and I will show thenitty gritty details of the library.Speaker: Dmitri GaskinDmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for breakfast everymorning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal know-it-all. Hecontributes patches for both Open Source projects. In the Drupalworld, he maintains many modules, is on the security team, and isinvolved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a mentor andadministrator. Dmitri has given many talks on Drupal and jQuery, insuch places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live on a radio show out ofL.A. When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare occurrence, he is playingand composing contemporary music. And attending classes in the 6thgrade. (He's only 12.) [ More Detail ]
Prokofiev, Visions Fugitives Op.22 Nn 1, 3, 11, 16, 10, 4, 6, 14, 17, 5Dmitri Bashkirov doesn't need any introduction. As a pianist he is highly regarded all around the world, as a teacher he "produced" more outstanding pianists than anybody else. Dmitri Alexeev, Nikolai Demidenko, Boris Bloch, Dang Thai Shon and many more. Bashkirov simply radiates irresistible charm and energy! [ More Detail ]
Dmitri Khvorostovsky sings a Soviet-era song from the Second Great Patriotic War backed by paintings of Moscow by contemporary Russian artists. [ More Detail ]
A moving song in tribute to fallen soldiers is matched with art by contemporary Russian students. It is sung by Dmitri Khvorostovsky with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. They have not forgotten... the motherland never forgets! [ More Detail ]
Dmitri Khvorostovsky sings Kazaki v Berline (The Cossacks in Berlin) with a backdrop of Cossack-themed paintings by Sergei Gavrilyachenko, Franz Rubo, and Bogdan Villevalde. Mr Khvorostovsky is backed by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Constantine Obelian and The Style of Five plays Russian folk instruments. The first and final paintings are by Sergei Gavrilyachenko, and bear the same title Cossack Duty (they were painted at different dates). I felt these to be the most appropriate initial and final images.I dedicate this to a cyber-friend who is a border guard in Russia of Cossack descent. May God protect you and watch over you and your comrades as you do your duty. Thank you! [ More Detail ]
This is a beautiful and moving song from the Soviet era in honour of fallen veterans. It is elegiac, and it is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Dmitri Khvorostovsky sings it with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and The Style of Five accompany him.This video has photographs of women who served in combat during the Second Great Patriotic War. It is my tribute to their courage and determination. Today, some 92,000 women serve in the Russian forces... a proud tradition continues!TEXT:It seems to me that sometimes that soldiersWho didn't come home from the blood-soaked battlefields,Weren't laid to rest in the earth,But turned into white cranes...That ever since that time long ago They have been flying, calling,Maybe that's why we often, and sadly,Fall silent, staring into the sky!The tired flock flies and flies up in the sky, It flies in the fog, as the day dies,And in this formation there is a space;Maybe it is a place for me.The day will come when I will also driftWith the flock of the cranes in the same blue-grey haze,Calling from the sky, in the language of the birds,The names of you I have left on earth.It seems to me sometimes that soldiersWho didn't come home from the blood-soaked battlefields,Weren't laid to rest in the earth,But turned into white cranes... [ More Detail ]
The landscape art of the great Peredvizhniki painter Ivan Shiskin is joined with a Soviet popular song sung by Dmitri Khvorostovsky. The last image, Morning in the Pine Forest, is considered to be the finest Russian nature/landscape painting of all time. I agree, emphatically.From Vladivostok to Brest, from Kotlas to Odessa, many peoples, many voices, yet one homeland, one soul. [ More Detail ]
An Old Russian Romance sung by Dmitri Khvorostovsky with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Constantine Obelian. The Russian folk instruments were played by the Style of Five. It is performed against a collection of Impressionist paintings by Isaak Brodsky. [ More Detail ]
An old Russian romance sung against a backdrop of landscape paintings by the 19th century Russian artist Isaak Levitan (who is considered the finest landscape artist in the Russian milieu). [ More Detail ]
Shade, The Movie (2003), with permission from RKO Pictures.Damian Nieman, Director; Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Shade, The Movie (2003), with permission from RKO Pictures.Damian Nieman, Director; Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, et alThis clip featuring the lyrical noir music of jazz flugelhornist and composer Dmitri Matheny [ More Detail ]
Nikolai Ryskov playes ''Waltz No2'' by Dmitri Shostakovich from the Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra. This music is also from the film ''Eyes Wide Shut'' produced by Stanley Kubrick. The sheet music is available on request fromwww.abnir.co.uk [ More Detail ]
Dmitri Hvorostovsky &Karita Mattila in Verdi's Rigoletto in the 2001 Cardiff Singer of the World Gala. Richard Hickox conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales."Pari siamo!... io la lingua, egli ha il pugnale". (act I scene VIII)."Figlia - Mio padre!" (Rigoletto's and Gilda's duet from act I scene IX) [ More Detail ]
Moscow SCHERZO Quartet plays four pieces from ballet "The Limpid Stream" by Dimitri Shostakovich. Russian Dance, Chaconne, Waltz and Polka. Concert in Schloss Oberhofen, Thun (near Bern), Switzerland 2007. For more information about SCHERZO Quartet please check: http://www.scherzo.ch [ More Detail ]
Enlightening clip Yuri Bashmet playing Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th string quartet in b-minor op. 138 (1970) - stomping his foot forcefully. Quite rude but expressive... ;-) [ More Detail ]