Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e trete)
Nga Altin Topi


Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,
Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.

Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;

Locksley Hall Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Duke lexuar vargjet nga poema e njohur e Tennyson-it, Locksley Hall, kridhem perseri habitor si dikur, ne thellesi te hapsires e te viteve. Buze ujrave e ne reren e plazheve, mbremjeve pranverore, neteve te kthjellta, atehere kur syte e mi nuk kishin nevoje te ndihmoheshin nga teknologjia, shpesh ne endjet e mija, hidhja syte nga qielli.

Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e dyte)
Nga Altin Topi

Sic mund te merret vesh, nen tisin mistiko-artistik, mitologjemat gjithmone fshehin shtresa te ndryshme nenteksesh e nenkuptimesh te “korrektesise, ujdhesave e intrigave politike”, te rrymave te ndryshme e nevojave per te ekuilibruar qendrat e ndryshme te gravitetit te pushtetit politik e fuqise ekonomike, ne periudha te ndryshme te historise njerezore.

Miti i Pleiadave te ndjekura nga Orioni, i perjetesuar nga astrologjia e i demostruar nga astronomia, eshte nje mit i fillimeve te njeriut per te kuptuar mahnitjen e tij me universin, natyren e vendin e vet ne te. Fjalet e Zotit drejtuar Xhobit(Book of Job 38:31): “Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?” , - te permendura ne Bibel percjellin vecse nje mesazh te vetem, mesazhin e paevitueshmerise, pamundesise per t’iu shmanguar ciklit te jetes: njeriu do te

Art/Proze

Shejzat, - midis Mitologjise e Shkences (pjesa e pare)
Nga Altin Topi

Pleiadat apo sic njihen ne shqipen e gegeve, shejzat, jane nje grumbullim yjesh ne kostelacionit e Buallit. Shejzat kane qene e mbeten pjese e mitologjise te kulturave e qyteterimeve te ndryshme. Ne mitologjine greke Pleiadat ishin shtate vajzat e Atlasit dhe Pleinones; per vikinget ato ishin pulat e Freias. Ne Europen e epokes te bronzit, keltet e popullsi te tjera perreth, i kujtonin Pleiadat ne raste pershendoshjesh e funeralesh, kur ato ngriheshin e shendritnin nga lindja, ne qiellin e nates, midis ekuinoksit vjeshtor dhe solsticit dimror, periudhe pergjate te ciles mbahej festivali pagan ne kujtim te te vdekurve. Acteket e kishin ndertuar kalendarin bazuar ne levizjen e Pleiadave ne qiell, ndersa per japonezet shejzat quheshin Subaru "sebashku", emer i huazuar ne kohet moderne nga prodhuesi japonez i automobileve.

Art/Movie and Theater

Cannes - Movie Review

The Dardennes film ‘Le silence de Lorna’
Source: www.european-films.net

The double Palme d’Or winners Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne came to Cannes with their sixth fiction feature film in their native Belgium. The film is called Le silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence) and stars regular Dardenne leading man Jérémie Renier, Italo-Belgian actor Fabrizio Rongione and young Kosovar-Albanian actress Arta Dobroshi, who first came to attention in Kujtim Çashku’s Albanian feature Syri magjik (Magic Eye) from 2005.

Rongione and Renier both starred in films by another Belgian talent, Joachim Lafosse, last year; Rongione in Ça rend heureux (What Makes You Happy), which he co-wrote, and Jérémie alongside his older brother Yannick Renier and French diva Isabelle Huppert in Lafosse's Nue propriété (Private Property). Rongione also had bit parts in two earlier Dardenne films and recently wrapped Ariel Zeitoun's Le dernier gang (The Last Gang).

Art/Muzike

Newly Established International Folk's “Oscars”
by Altin Topi


For four days, from 8th to 11th of May, two southern Italian towns, San Severo and Alto Tavogliere in Puglia, became "the reference points” of international folklore as the First Festival of Popular Traditions took place there. The Festival offered space and opportunity to all the lovers of pizzica and taranta with a rich program relevant to the art and traditions of folklore. The event celebrated the lifelong contributions of several international renowned folklore collectors, scholars, musicians, ethnomusicologists from different places of the world. It was the first event of this nature and scale.

Art/Muzike

Improvisation (second part)
DVD Booklet

Jammin’ The Blues

Some of the most vivid and rare portrait of jazz musicians in action during the 1930s and 1940s came in the form of the Hollywood movies and the so-called “soundies”, stand-alone shorts of the big bands that were packed with feature films. Frequently, popular bands such as those of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Woody Herman, Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller were the biggest draws of the otherwise mostly forgettable films in which they appeared. However, as valuable as these music sequences 60 and 70 years ago might be, they are remembered partly for their Hollywood embellishment rather than for probing for the music itself or its creators on a deeper level.

Art/Muzike

Improvisation (first part)
DVD Booklet

In July 2, 1944, Norman Granz presented a jazz concert (actually a series of glorified Jam Sessions) at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles; thus, the name Jazz At the Philharmonic(JATP as it was labeled by the media).

JATP was the forerunner of the outdoor jazz festivals as well as jazz concerts in classical concerts.

Another important factor was that the concert was recorded and released unedited commercially and the recording engineer, dressed in military uniform and acting for the AFN radio was also a great man by the name of Jimmy Lyon, the founder of Monterrey Jazz Festival.