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

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra U.S. Tour

For the first time in their 91-year history, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, will tour the U.S., visiting four major markets in October 2014.

The Orchestra, under the direction of its Chief Conductor Muhai Tang, will appear first at Symphony Hall in Chicago on October 6th, then at Severance Hall in Cleveland on October 7th, at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD on October 8th, and at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City on October 9th. Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic, a Met Opera sensation, will perform as a soloist.

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Programme to be performed in Chicago and New York:

  • P. I. Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March
  • G. Verdi: Excerpts from the operas Macbeth and Rigoletto; soloist: Željko Lučić, baritone
  • J. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Programme to be performed in Cleveland and Washington:

  • A. Khachaturian: Masquerade, suite
  • S. Hristić: The Legend of Ohrid, suite No. 1
  • J. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Tickets for the tour, on sale now, have been set at family-friendly prices and can be obtained on venue websites.


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Radivoje Živadinović rodjen је 15. februara 1901. godine u Beogradu, gde је završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. Ро položenoj maturi 1919. godine i provedena dva semestra na Univerzitetu u Beogradu otišao је, krajem 1920, па Filozofski fakultet Uпiverziteta u Berlinu па nastavak studija. Na ovom fakultetu - odsek Hemija - odbranio је doktorsku disertaciju "Übеr imidoaether, imido- und oximidothiolaether" 1929. godine. Za suplenta gimnazije postavljen је 1931. godine i dodeljeп na rad kao asistent Tehnološkom odseku Tehničkog fakulteta u Beogradu.

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Residents of Heaven

An Exhibit of Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Icons

Residents of Heaven is a book of Icons by Father Stamatis Skliris which were prepared for "An Exhibit of Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Icons" held at the "David Allan Hubbard Library, Fuller Theological Seminary" in Pasadena, California, June 10 - July 5, 2010.

The iconographer, V. Rev. Stamatis Skliris, attended the opening of the exhibit with His Grace, Bishop Maxim who gave the Introduction. The mounting of the display was done by Jasminka Gabrie and the staff of the Fuller Library. The opening event was organized by Dr. William Dyrness, Director of the Visual Faith Institute, Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts, Fuller Seminary.