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Japan's city of Nagasaki to mark 64 years since A-bombing by US
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TOKYO, August 8 (Itar-Tass) - Japanese city of Nagasaki is to hold a
solemn ceremony Sunday to mark 64 years since its atrocious devastation by
a U.S. atomic bomb.
Thousands of people will stand in silence in the memorial Peace Park
at 11:02 local time to mark the moment on August 9, 1945, when the U.S.
bomber B29 dropped a plutonium bomb codenamed the Fat Man on the city.
A total of 74,000 people died right after the explosion or within the
six months after it and about the same number received wounds.
The number of people who have died because of the aftermath of the
Nagasaki bombing has exceeded 140,000 to date.
Official data indicates that the U.S. atomic bombing of another
Japanese city, Hiroshima, which the U.S. Air Force effectuated August 6,
1945, killed more than 250,000 people.
.Sunday marks 67 yrs since first performance of Leningrad Symphony.
MOSCOW, August 9 (Itar-Tass) - Sunday marks 67 years since the first
performance of composer Dmitry Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, which is
widely viewed as the calling card of Soviet music of the World War II era.
Shostakovich had been well known outside the USSR by 1942 and his
works had been performed in places as distant from Russia as New York and
Philadelphia.
He composed ten symphonies all in all but Symphony No. 7, mostly known
as the 'Leningrad' and dedicated to Leningraders' heroism during the
unprecedented siege of the city by Wehrmacht troops, is probably the most
frequently performed one.
August 9, 1942, its rendition by an orchestra under the baton of
maestro Karl Eliasberg was broadcast live by Radio Leningrad to listeners
inside and outside the besieged city that had survived a most atrocious
winter of 1941/1942 amid the catastrophic shortages of absolutely
everything and was bracing itself to live through no less dramatic a
winter period of 1942/1943.
The performance was also broadcast over the citywide public address
network, with people listening to Shostakovich's music right on the
streets and squares of the once majestic Imperial capital.
Interestingly enough, the compelling innervating melodies of the
symphony were also heard on airwaves across the frontline. Maestro
Eliasberg got an eyewitness account of this several decades later when two
tourists from Germany got into contact with him to tell him a realization
came to them on August 9, 1942, that Hitler's machine had lost the war.
"We sensed your strength then, a strength that was able to overpower
famine, fright and even death," one of the tourists told Eliasberg.
The Leningrad Symphony traveled across countries and continents
afterwards. It was part and parcel of the repertoire of orchestras
conducted by the landmark Soviet musicians, Yevgeny Mravinsky who stood at
the head of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, and Yevgeny Svetlanov,
the artistic director of the Grand Symphony Orchestra of the USSR.
The scope of foreign conductors, who presented the symphony to
audiences abroad, included the great names like Arturo Toscanini and
Leonard Bernstein.
Decades after the Siege of Leningrad, a fragment of the symphony was
played by the Mariinsky Theater orchestra under the baton of Valery
Gergiyev in the conditions resembling the frontline ones.
This concert took place on August 21, 2008, on the central square of
South Ossetia's capital Tskhinval.
Candles were lit then on the steps leading to an improvised open-air
stage. The event was devoted to the memory of those who had died days
before that during Georgia's armed punitive operation against the people
of South Ossetia and Russian peacekeepers.
Maestro Gergiyev, himself a person of ethnic Ossete origin, and
musicians of his orchestra thus paid respects to the courage of the
peace-loving Ossetian people.
According to the conductor, the Georgian military action primarily
victimized children, women and the elderly who had stayed back in
Tskhinval.
"Memories about them will live on in our hearts," he said.
.Georgia needs to recognize S Ossetia if wants to rebuild trust.
TSKHINVAL, August 8 (Itar-Tass) - To restore trust between the South
Ossetian and Georgian peoples, the Georgian government must recognize the
Republic of South Ossetia, the young South Caucasian country's Eduard
Kokoity said Saturday.
"South Ossetia didn't have a war against the Georgian people," he said
after the ceremony of opening the Museum of Genocide. "We shall live in
peace and good-neighborliness but to rebuild trust between our peoples
Georgia must first recognize South Ossetia."
"Nonetheless, we'll continue demanding punishment for those who
engineered the genocide of the Ossetian people and the massacre of
peaceful civilians," Kokoity said.
"This isn't only Georgia," he indicated. "Responsibility for this
should be shared by those who armed Georgia, and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe and the EU must amid they are
responsible, too, as the third genocide of the Ossetian people on the part
of Georgians began with their silent consent."
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TOKYO, August 8 (Itar-Tass) - Japanese city of Nagasaki is to hold a
solemn ceremony Sunday to mark 64 years since its atrocious devastation by
a U.S. atomic bomb.
Thousands of people will stand in silence in the memorial Peace Park
at 11:02 local time to mark the moment on August 9, 1945, when the U.S.
bomber B29 dropped a plutonium bomb codenamed the Fat Man on the city.
A total of 74,000 people died right after the explosion or within the
six months after it and about the same number received wounds.
The number of people who have died because of the aftermath of the
Nagasaki bombing has exceeded 140,000 to date.
Official data indicates that the U.S. atomic bombing of another
Japanese city, Hiroshima, which the U.S. Air Force effectuated August 6,
1945, killed more than 250,000 people.
.Sunday marks 67 yrs since first performance of Leningrad Symphony.
MOSCOW, August 9 (Itar-Tass) - Sunday marks 67 years since the first
performance of composer Dmitry Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, which is
widely viewed as the calling card of Soviet music of the World War II era.
Shostakovich had been well known outside the USSR by 1942 and his
works had been performed in places as distant from Russia as New York and
Philadelphia.
He composed ten symphonies all in all but Symphony No. 7, mostly known
as the 'Leningrad' and dedicated to Leningraders' heroism during the
unprecedented siege of the city by Wehrmacht troops, is probably the most
frequently performed one.
August 9, 1942, its rendition by an orchestra under the baton of
maestro Karl Eliasberg was broadcast live by Radio Leningrad to listeners
inside and outside the besieged city that had survived a most atrocious
winter of 1941/1942 amid the catastrophic shortages of absolutely
everything and was bracing itself to live through no less dramatic a
winter period of 1942/1943.
The performance was also broadcast over the citywide public address
network, with people listening to Shostakovich's music right on the
streets and squares of the once majestic Imperial capital.
Interestingly enough, the compelling innervating melodies of the
symphony were also heard on airwaves across the frontline. Maestro
Eliasberg got an eyewitness account of this several decades later when two
tourists from Germany got into contact with him to tell him a realization
came to them on August 9, 1942, that Hitler's machine had lost the war.
"We sensed your strength then, a strength that was able to overpower
famine, fright and even death," one of the tourists told Eliasberg.
The Leningrad Symphony traveled across countries and continents
afterwards. It was part and parcel of the repertoire of orchestras
conducted by the landmark Soviet musicians, Yevgeny Mravinsky who stood at
the head of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, and Yevgeny Svetlanov,
the artistic director of the Grand Symphony Orchestra of the USSR.
The scope of foreign conductors, who presented the symphony to
audiences abroad, included the great names like Arturo Toscanini and
Leonard Bernstein.
Decades after the Siege of Leningrad, a fragment of the symphony was
played by the Mariinsky Theater orchestra under the baton of Valery
Gergiyev in the conditions resembling the frontline ones.
This concert took place on August 21, 2008, on the central square of
South Ossetia's capital Tskhinval.
Candles were lit then on the steps leading to an improvised open-air
stage. The event was devoted to the memory of those who had died days
before that during Georgia's armed punitive operation against the people
of South Ossetia and Russian peacekeepers.
Maestro Gergiyev, himself a person of ethnic Ossete origin, and
musicians of his orchestra thus paid respects to the courage of the
peace-loving Ossetian people.
According to the conductor, the Georgian military action primarily
victimized children, women and the elderly who had stayed back in
Tskhinval.
"Memories about them will live on in our hearts," he said.
.Georgia needs to recognize S Ossetia if wants to rebuild trust.
TSKHINVAL, August 8 (Itar-Tass) - To restore trust between the South
Ossetian and Georgian peoples, the Georgian government must recognize the
Republic of South Ossetia, the young South Caucasian country's Eduard
Kokoity said Saturday.
"South Ossetia didn't have a war against the Georgian people," he said
after the ceremony of opening the Museum of Genocide. "We shall live in
peace and good-neighborliness but to rebuild trust between our peoples
Georgia must first recognize South Ossetia."
"Nonetheless, we'll continue demanding punishment for those who
engineered the genocide of the Ossetian people and the massacre of
peaceful civilians," Kokoity said.
"This isn't only Georgia," he indicated. "Responsibility for this
should be shared by those who armed Georgia, and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe and the EU must amid they are
responsible, too, as the third genocide of the Ossetian people on the part
of Georgians began with their silent consent."
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