Harmony and agony.Svetlana and Maja Kutlaca, mother and daughter from Serbia, give a harpsichord harpsichord, stringed musical instrument played from a keyboard. Its strings, two or more to a note, are plucked by quills or jacks. The harpsichord originated in the 14th cent. and by the 16th cent. Venice was the center of its manufacture. lecture recital Recital - dBASE-like language and DBMS from Recital Corporation. Versions include Vax VMS. at last July's Renewal Arts Forum at the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux. Svetlana traces the history of ideas The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. The history of ideas is a sister-discipline to, or a particular approach within, intellectual history. about harmony from the Crusades to the French Revolution. She draws on the contribution made by Greek, Arab, Byzantine and Renaissance European thinkers. The Kutlacas play the harpsichord in turns--Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Couperin--then they play together, three hands. Maja says she is lucky--she only has to use her right hand. They play beautifully. Meanwhile Zuriah Aljeffri from Malaysia projects slides of her paintings. Among them is a highly acclaimed series which evokes the agony of Bosnia in the 1990s. HUGH WILLIAMS AT THE RENEWAL ARTS FORUM IN CAUX, SWITZERLAND Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Looking out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters, the Caux conference centre of Initiatives of Change[1] can accommodate up to 450 people. |
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