Alexandria in Red Moon Colours, by Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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The Search for Alexandria's eternal colour goes on! What is the nuance of red colour that best suits Alexandria? Imperium or Amor?
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I looked at the Red Alexandrian Moon around midnight; it gave me the reflection of all the loves shared in Alexandria, the seal of all the imperial decisions taken here, and the ultimate secret ciphered within the Holy Book of the Hermetic Gnostics which was written by God Himself, Poimandres.
It was a sign that the flames of love are never extinguished. Even at the brink of the abyss, humans can always contemplate with some nostalgia, remembering that red colour does not necessarily mean fight, but love!
And what greater fight exists in our world, except Love?
The entire text of Prof. Megalommatis' article has been uploaded in the video slides; it can also be found here:
http://www.afroarticles.com/article-d...
Music accompaniment:
PartⅠ-Largo—Allegro giocoso
Rimsky Korsakov: Symphony No. 2 in F sharp minor. "Antar"
Ernest Ansermet (Conductor)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Antar is a composition for symphony orchestra in four movements by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He wrote the piece in 1868 but revised it in 1875 and 1891. He initially called the work his Second Symphony. He later reconsidered and called it a symphonic suite. It was first performed in 1869 at a concert of the Russian Musical Society.
The story
This work was inspired by an Arabian tale by Sennkovsky, suggested to Rimsky-Korsakov by Modest Mussorgsky and César Cui. Antar, an enemy of all mankind, has become a recluse in the desert. He saves a gazelle from a large bird. Weary from fighting the bird, he falls asleep exhausted. He dreams he is in the palace of the Queen of Palmyra. The queen, the fairy Gul-Nazar, was the gazelle Antar saved from the bird. As a reward, she permits Antar to fulfill three of life's greatest joys — vengeance, power and love. He accepts these gifts with gratitude, then makes a request himself. He asks the queen to take his life if these pleasures become tiresome. He then falls in love with the queen. After some time, however, he becomes weary of his passion. The queen takes him in her arms, kissing him with such ferocity that his life ebbs away.
This legend on the whole is incorporated in the opening movement; the other three depict each of the three joys. As Hector Berlioz did in his Symphonie fantastique, Rimsky-Korsakov employs an idée fixe or motto theme in various guises through all four movements to depict Antar. This theme is played by the violas in the introduction to the opening movement. Later in the same movement, flutes and horns play another important theme, this time depicting the queen.
Continue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antar_(...)
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I looked at the Red Alexandrian Moon around midnight; it gave me the reflection of all the loves shared in Alexandria, the seal of all the imperial decisions taken here, and the ultimate secret ciphered within the Holy Book of the Hermetic Gnostics which was written by God Himself, Poimandres.
It was a sign that the flames of love are never extinguished. Even at the brink of the abyss, humans can always contemplate with some nostalgia, remembering that red colour does not necessarily mean fight, but love!
And what greater fight exists in our world, except Love?
The entire text of Prof. Megalommatis' article has been uploaded in the video slides; it can also be found here:
http://www.afroarticles.com/article-d...
Music accompaniment:
PartⅠ-Largo—Allegro giocoso
Rimsky Korsakov: Symphony No. 2 in F sharp minor. "Antar"
Ernest Ansermet (Conductor)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Antar is a composition for symphony orchestra in four movements by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He wrote the piece in 1868 but revised it in 1875 and 1891. He initially called the work his Second Symphony. He later reconsidered and called it a symphonic suite. It was first performed in 1869 at a concert of the Russian Musical Society.
The story
This work was inspired by an Arabian tale by Sennkovsky, suggested to Rimsky-Korsakov by Modest Mussorgsky and César Cui. Antar, an enemy of all mankind, has become a recluse in the desert. He saves a gazelle from a large bird. Weary from fighting the bird, he falls asleep exhausted. He dreams he is in the palace of the Queen of Palmyra. The queen, the fairy Gul-Nazar, was the gazelle Antar saved from the bird. As a reward, she permits Antar to fulfill three of life's greatest joys — vengeance, power and love. He accepts these gifts with gratitude, then makes a request himself. He asks the queen to take his life if these pleasures become tiresome. He then falls in love with the queen. After some time, however, he becomes weary of his passion. The queen takes him in her arms, kissing him with such ferocity that his life ebbs away.
This legend on the whole is incorporated in the opening movement; the other three depict each of the three joys. As Hector Berlioz did in his Symphonie fantastique, Rimsky-Korsakov employs an idée fixe or motto theme in various guises through all four movements to depict Antar. This theme is played by the violas in the introduction to the opening movement. Later in the same movement, flutes and horns play another important theme, this time depicting the queen.
Continue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antar_(...)