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

Vladimir Milošević - umetnik u usponu

Pijanista Vladimir Milošević, docent Fakulteta muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu, izabran je za "umetnika u usponu" na nedavnom konkursu američke Asocijacije njujorških koncertnih umetnika, koja se bavi promocijom i lansiranjem mladih umetnika u svetu. Na konkursu su učestvovali muzičari iz celog sveta, a Asocijacija je Miloševića proglasila najboljim.

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- Kao pobednik, dobio sam mogućnost da nastupim sa Simfonijskim orkestrom Njujorških koncertnih umetnika u sezoni 2013/2014. Koncert će najverovatnije biti u maju sledeće godine. Krajem leta će se znati i tačan repertoar - kaže za "Novosti" Vladimir Milošević. - Nastup u Karnegi holu pre nekoliko godina bio je ostvarenje jednog velikog sna, a ovim koncertom ostvariće mi se još jedan.

Srpskog pijanistu 18. aprila očekuje i nastup u Marinskom teatru, u Sankt Peterburgu. U dvorani "ruskog Karnegi hola" Milošević će nastupiti sa čelistom Draganom Đorđevićem, a izvešće celovečernji resital.

U svetu je mnogo vrhunskih pijanista i teško je izboriti se za svoje mesto. Naš sagovornik, međutim, smatra da je konkurencija uvek dobrodošla.

- To me inspiriše da još više radim na sebi, da budem u dobroj formi. Za muzičara je veoma važno da ima kvalitetnu konkurenciju. Osim toga, stalno učim nova dela, i tako izgrađujem i usavršavam sebe.

Osim nespornog talenta, da bi se uspelo na međunarodnoj sceni, smatra Milošević, potrebno je "mnogo rada i sreće". Ako imate kvalitet i talenat, kaže, nije presudno iz koje zemlje dolazite. Mada više ne odlazi na takmičenja, i dalje pamti kako je teško obezbediti novac za putovanja i nastupe širom sveta.

- Muzičari nemaju nikakvu pomoć države, moraju da se snalaze kako znaju. Nekad imaju sreće da im organizator takmičenja pokrije troškove, u protivnom, umetnici u usponu moraju da se oslone na roditelje ili potraže pomoć sponzora. Država malo ulaže u umetnost i negovanje kulture uopšte - kaže naš sagovornik.

Za razliku od Srbije, Nemačka i Francuska imaju veliko poštovanje prema klasičnoj muzici i umetnicima.

- Tamo je mnogo veća konkurencija i teže je izboriti se za svoje mesto, ali, s druge strane, i u najmanjim mestima postoje koncertne sale. Svira se u crkvama, u raznim kulturnim društvima, što muzičarima omogućava da imaju redovne nastupe - kaže srpski pijanista.

NOVOSTI 13. 3. 2013.

 


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Jelena Vuckovic

Jelena Vuckovic is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2002, and M.Sc. and Diploma in Engineering degrees from Caltech and University of Nis, Serbia, respectively. Upon graduation from Caltech, she has held the following positions at Stanford University: a postdoctoral scholar (January-August 2002), an acting assistant professor (August-December 2002), an assistant professor (January 2003-August 2008), an associate professor of electrical engineering with tenure (September 2008- January 2013), and a professor of electrical engineering (since February 2013).

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My Brother's Keeper

by Fr. Radovan Bigovic

Rare are the books of Orthodox Christian authors that deal with the subject of politics in a comprehensive way. It is taken for granted that politics has to do with the secularized (legal) protection of human rights (a reproduction of the philosophy of the Enlightenment), within the political system of so-called "representative democracy", which is limited mostly to social utility or to the conventional rules of human relations. Most Christians look at politics and democracy as unrelated with their experience of the Church herself, which abides both in history and in the Kingdom, the eschaton. Today, the commercialization of politics—its submission to the laws of publicity and the brainwashing of the masses—has literally abolished the "representative" parliamentary system. So, why bother with politics when every citizen of so-called developed societies has a direct everyday experience of the rapid decline and alienation of the fundamental aspects of modernity?

In the Orthodox milieu, Christos Yannaras has highlighted the conception of the social and political event that is borne by the Orthodox ecclesiastical tradition, which entails a personalistic (assumes an infinite value of the human person as opposed to Western utilitarian individualism) and relational approach. Fr Radovan Bigovic follows this approach. In this book, the reader will find a faithful engagement with the liturgical and patristic traditions, with contemporary thinkers, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, all in conversation with political science and philosophy. As an excellent Orthodox theologian and a proponent of dialogue, rooted in the catholic (holistic) being of the Orthodox Church and of his Serbian people, Fr Radovan offers a methodology that encompasses the above-mentioned concerns and quests.