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Re: Ivan Denisovich opera. Nostalgic footnote

Mike Nicholson — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:02:19 GMT

Well... fine instruments though they undoubtedly are, I do find the emotional range one can coax from triangles and recorders rather limited. Mike ...

Re: Ivan Denisovich opera. Nostalgic footnote

Steve Petrica — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:44:52 GMT

I never heard of this! How very interesting! Is it ... well ... any good? Steve On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Mike Nicholson < ... [Non-text portions of

Re: Ivan Denisovich opera. Nostalgic footnote

Mike Nicholson — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:12:13 GMT

PS I'm joking about the 'Magizdat' bit. The school kids were English and I got the recording from a parent of one of the participating kids. Can't remember

Re: Ivan Denisovich opera. Nostalgic footnote

Mike Nicholson — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:06:51 GMT

It's hardly a rival to a full-blown opera, but don't forget that back in the seventies there was a school choir- and band-arrangment of themes from ID, which

Ivan Denisovich opera

daneejo — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:03:39 GMT

Tass reports that an opera version of Ivan Denisovich has been produced. The composer is Alexander Tchaikovsky.

Chekhov's Darling and AIS' marriages

daneejo — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:28:53 GMT

The biographers say that AIS loved Chekhov's story "The Darling" about a woman who had two husbands and changed her interests and even her personality to match

Free Universal Health Care

Steve Petrica — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:21:24 GMT

Interesting excerpt from Cancer Ward, deployed by a bloggeras a comment on

Artist Getman's contribution to the "Avtomat" debate

daneejo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:53:15 GMT

I looked for guards carrying weapons in the online collection of Nikolai Getman's art. He was a zek in Kolyma from 1946 to 1953 (almost identical to AIS's time

Re: Tommy Guns in Gulag Archipelago 3

Daneejo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:44:01 GMT

Thanks, Alexis and Mike. I notice in Part VI Chap 5 Willetts used the term "automatic rifle". "I am walking along _by myself_. With no automatic rifles

Re: Tommy Guns in Gulag Archipelago 3

Mike Nicholson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:46:27 GMT

The Red Army's beloved PPSh-41 (for 'Shpagin pistol-machine gun 1941'), was produced in millions from that year (anyway, too early and too many for LendLease).

Re: Tommy Guns in Gulag Archipelago 3

Alexis Klimoff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:59:02 GMT

Willetts used the term "tommy guns" in the generic sense of "submachine gun," using it as a translation of the Russian word "avtomat." The Thompson weapon was

Tommy Guns in Gulag Archipelago 3

daneejo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:42:18 GMT

I'm rereading Volume 3 (Parts 5 and 6) of Gulag. It strikes me as odd how the guards are described as carrying tommy guns. I don't remember that term in the

Re: Solzhenitsyn conference in NYC, March 23 + 25, 2009

norm@... — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:43:32 GMT

Wow! I'd sure love to read that paper (translated of course) by Prof. Dall'Asta. Thank you, Tony. Fantastic summary! Norm

Re: Solzhenitsyn conference in NYC, March 23 + 25, 2009

Steve Petrica — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:58:58 GMT

Hi Tony-- Thanks for the summary! I wanted to go, but I just couldn't arrange the logistics of getting there from my home in Washington. I agree about how

Re: Solzhenitsyn conference in NYC, March 23 + 25, 2009

Salvia, Anthony — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:37:06 GMT

Dear Steve, Sorry for getting back to you so late but I was traveling overseas and just returned yesterday. Yes, I attend the Solzhenitsyn conference at