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www.instablogs.com US warns Iraq over troop pact Bush Administration should stop dictating terms to Iraq on the security pact and instead help the country in securing an extension of the UN mandate. It is high time US withdraw its troops from Iraq especially after the success of Shia Sunni ceasefire and relative peace that has slowly but surely begun seeping into the Iraqi society. Iraq war has already been a huge burden for the American taxpayer. Ever since the conflict began US has spent more than 5bn on war and reconstruction half of what it desperately needed today for the financial bailout. Our economy is already in shambles, people have lost whatever faith they had in the administrations ability to protect their economic future. How can the government still afford to play with such flimsy ideas as securing legal basis for military presence in Iraq until 2011, naturally tantamount to inviting financial suicide? Let the UN handle Iraq. US should be busy setting its own house in order instead of bothering itself with Iraqs future. Indian Flood Relief aid a pittance Monetary relief provided by India is nothing compare to the amount of aid which is needed to actually affect the rehabilitation of flood victims in Nepal. Series of embankments and other structures built by India along the India-Nepal border meant for its own security are havoc in Nepal. According to the Kosi river pact signed between the two neighbours in 1954, India has to maintain, build and repair the …
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Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 78, “Fantaisie” (1947) Movement II: Yan Kuei Fei’s Love Sacrifice (Sostenuto – Animato) Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) was the son of Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945), who was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a teacher of Prokofiev. Alexander Tcherepnin began his musical career as a precocious young pianist, and he soon began to compose avant-garde works and experiment with new tonal systems. His First Symphony caused a scandal at its 1926 Paris premiere, on account of its unusual second movement scored solely for untuned percussion. Since the pentatonic scale fascinated Tcherepnin, he decided to fuse the pentatonic music of the Far East with conventional Western tonal systems to create a new “Eurasian” music. In 1934, he traveled to China where he stayed for three years, studying Chinese music and establishing a conservatory in Shanghai. After he returned to Paris, Tcherepnin composed a number of works in his own distinctive and accessible “Chinese” style, of which the Fourth Piano Concerto is exemplary. The work is a series of three tone poems in succession: The Eastern Chamber Dream, Yan Kuei Fei’s Love Sacrifice, and Road to Yunnan. The soloist in this performance is Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa, who joins the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with Chinese-American conductor Lan Shui.
