A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Dimitrije Vasiljević u Karnegi Holu

Dimitrije Vasiljević, nagradjivani pijanista i kompozitor iz Beograda, održace solistički klavirski koncert u čuvenom Karnegi Holu u Njujorku 24. marta u 20h na kom će predstaviti svoje kompozicije kroz koje se provlače motivi Balkana pomešani sa evropskim džezom.

Na koncertu će premijerno biti izvedena i kompozicija „Wardenclyffe” inspirisana i posvećena Nikoli Tesli za koju je u januaru ove godine dobio priznanje Tesla Naučne Fondacije iz Filadelfije za očuvanje lika i dela Nikole Tesle kroz muziku.

Kompozicija „Wardenclyffe” će predstavljati jednu od nosećih numera na Vasiljevićevom novom klavirskom albumu „Metaphor" („Metafora") koji se očekuje sredinom godine.

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Vasiljević je po završetku Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, diplomirao i na prestižnom Berklee College of Music u Bostonu a nedavno je završio i magistarske studije na New York University gde je uporedo radio i kao profesor džeza.

Informacije o koncertu mozete naći na ovom link-u: http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/3/24/0800/PM/Dimitrije-Vasiljevic-Jazz-Piano/

Poslusajte Dimitrija na ovom link-u: www.youtube.com/user/dimmypiano, a vise o njemu saznajte na: www.dimitrijevasiljevic.com


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The Mystical Light of the Great Church and its Architectural Dress

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Dear reader, as you run like the rest of us along the dizzy main road, stop, stay aside for a while. Let the others be dizzy, and take the secret underground trail, which will lead you through the dewdrops of the leaves, the crystal smile of the sun, the city’s underground galler- ies, your knowledge, and your feelings, to the doorstep of the Hagia Sophia. Because all dew- drops, all sunrays, and all beauty lead there. That is what you will be told by my friend, the author, whom I am fond of and whom I send you to, Charalambos Stathakis: the doctor, the warm and humane researcher, the scientist devoted to his work and his patients, who has given a series of scientific papers, who, nevertheless, retains a nest of beauty untouched in his heart, which makes him outstanding—even though he is not a specialist in architecture, nor a historian, nor a theologian, nor a Byzantinist—it makes him stand out in all these together and in entirety.

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