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Music

• 02.15.09
  My deti galaktiki
  Music (4)

    I learned about the Soviet-era song, "We the Children of the Galaxy" from EnglishRussia. With some trouble (because I didn't know a Russian word for "lyrics") I found lyrics, too, at nomorelyrics.net. I like it -- a good song for language-learning. The above is from YouTube. I think it's the same as on EnglishRussia. The singer, Lev Leshchenko, has a good voice. I looked around to see what other songs of his I might like to put on my MP3 player to learn with. There are a lot of YouTube clips ...
  
  
• 07.23.08
  Musical wandering
  Movies, Music (0)

  No Russian movies tonight. I'm busy getting ready for some Spokesrider bike rides. I did spend some time with the Russian language, though, starting with one of Viktor D. Huliganov's lessons. Then, while working on my maps I listened to YouTube music, and then stumbled upon this song, which I recognize from the movie Obyknovennoye chudo. It'll be handy having it here so I can learn the words. And I see that Nastya Kamenskih is in on this kind of music, too. I was somewhat surprised to see her on this stage. I learned about her some months ago when doing a ...
  
  
• 04.13.08
  Dark Eyes
  Music (0)

  When I used to teach a pre-confirmation class at our church, it seemed that young people (and old) wouldn't easily buy Martin Luther's words of explanation to the First Commandment: "We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things." Young people wouldn't say much, but older ones would. People think fear is a sign of an unhealthy relationship. There are any number of cliches that put fear in the same category with ignorance, superstition, and intolerance. (It was a discussion of Barak Obama's bigotted remarks about bitter people and their religion and ...
  
  

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