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

Melodije bliske srcu

U ciklusu „Nove godine“, Beogradska filharmonija obeležiće u četvrtak Novu godinu po julijanskom kalendaru izvodeći muziku iz najpoznatijih domaćih filmova. Ovu „muzičku sinemaniju“ na Kolarcu predvodiće mladi Vladimir Kulenović, rezidencijalni dirigent filharmonije. Publika će se priseti antologijskih melodija iz „Otpisanih“, „Maratonaca“, „Balkan ekspresa“, „Nacionalne klase“, „Petrijinog venca“ i drugih dela.

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Mladi umetnik, koji gradi uspešnu karujeru u SAD, nedavno je pred američkom publikom dirigovao repertoar iz Diznijevih filmova. Srpski film mu je, otvoreno priznaje, „bliži srcu“.

- Ono zbog čega mi je ovaj koncert posebno drag je zato što je to muzika iz filmova uz koje smo odrasli i koje smo voleli - kaže za „Novosti“ Kulenović.

Kao stalni dirigent Simfonijskog orkestra u Juti, srpski umetnik održi oko sto koncerata godišnje, a često gostuje u Evropi i Aziji. Našao se i na listi šest najperspektivnijih dirigenata u Americi, što mu donosi pozive za gostovanja sa uglednim orkestrima.

- Kada sam diplomirao, u kratkom periodu nastupao sam u SAD, Japanu, Tajlandu i Srbiji. To je odlična prilika da vidite razliku između evropske, američke ili azijske publike. I ne samo publike, jer su temperament, kultura, sviranje i ponašanje okrestara drugačiji. Dirigent mora da bude kameleon, da se prilagodi sredini - objašnjava Kulenović. - U Srbiji mi je najbolje. Ako bih negde ostajao po izboru, to bi bilo ovde.

Želja mu je i da u budućnosti češće izvodi dela svog oca, kompozitora Vuka Kulenovića, profesora na Berkliju.

Simfonijski orkestar Jute, gde je Kulenović stalni dirigent, smešten je u Solt Lejk Sitiju, a delom ga finansira država. Osim nastupa širom Amerike, ovaj ansambl svake godine predstavlja se i najmlađoj publici, gostujući po školama, što je, po njegovim rečima, odličan primer za sve druge orkestre.

- Odlazimo u škole, „držimo časove“ najmlađima, što zaista pravi veliku razliku kasnije. Jer, ta deca pričaju roditeljima i sa njima dolaze na koncerte. Jednostavno, zavolimo se i budemo dobrodošli u njihovim životima. Dobijate publiku koja vam je verna - objašnjava Kulenović.

Porodica

Vladimir potiče iz umetničke porodice. Osim oca kompozitora, njegov deda Skender Kulenović bio je čuveni pesnik, a baba Vera Crvenčanin Kulenović prva žena reditelj u Srbiji.

- Moj otac je bio i profesionalni vaterpolista, a i ja sam se bavio sportom - skijanje je moja druga ljubav. Volim tenis, a u poslednje vreme sam posvećen ronjenju. Moram da se pohvalim da sam nedavno oborio svoj lični rekord u ronjenju na dah, spustio sam se do dubine od 30 metara!


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Bishop Maxim (Vasiljević)

(2006–)

For the last eleven years the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese is Maxim (Vasiljević,) well known in academic circles since he holds several academic titles and is professor of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade. Maxim (secular name Milan Vasilje¬vić) was born on June 27, 1968 in Foča, Yugoslavia, into a family of a priest. His father Lazar is a priest and mother Radmila, nee Todorović.

After finishing elementary school in Sarajevo (1983), he studied Seminary school in Belgrade (finished in 1988), served the army, and enrolled into the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in the same city.

He was tonsured a monk in Tvrdos Monastery, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 18, 1996, by Bishop Atanasije of Herzegovia, who also ordained him a deacon (1996) and priest in 2001.

Bishop Maxim graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade in 1993. He completed his Masters of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996, and then three years later, in 1999, at the same University, he defended his doctorate in the field of Dogmatics and Patristics with the title, “Participation in God” in the Theological Anthropology of St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Maximus the Confessor.

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Emmanuel

The Only Begotten and Firstborn among Many Brethren

by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich

In Emmanuel, the second anthology of Bishop Athanasius' articles to appear in English, His Grace explores themes of Orthodox Christology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, and Gnoseology. How can we know Who God is? How can we know who we are, as human persons created in His image and likeness? How can we become one with Him? Bishop Athanasius examines these and other foundational questions in depth in this volume, drawing from a wealth of Scriptural and patristic sources. In discussing diverse theological subjects, he always returns to his overarching theme: the communion that man can have with God through Jesus Christ the God-man, within Christ's Church and above all in the Holy Eucharist. His exquisite and unique way of engaging the reader in mutual dialogue, with the living Eucharistic experience permeating his every thought, instills in the reader a burning desire for that communion.

Soft-bound
Contemporary Christian Thought Series, No. 3 - First Edition
229 pages
ISBN 978-0-9719505-4-2