tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post9175030040735290792..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Toscanini and the Lusitania - there but for the grace of God goes any one of usHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-82475355082455732782015-05-07T14:52:01.417+10:002015-05-07T14:52:01.417+10:00Thank you. I have added a note about the new Lusit...Thank you. I have added a note about the new Lusitania gallery onto the blog post.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-73343447306171583462015-05-07T12:11:12.696+10:002015-05-07T12:11:12.696+10:00Welcome to the new Lusitania gallery at Liverpool&...Welcome to the new Lusitania gallery at Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum. It opened to the public in March 2015, 100 years after the ship was sunk by a German submarine.Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpoolhttp://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/lusitania/index.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-67742996745404190052014-08-02T22:32:54.383+10:002014-08-02T22:32:54.383+10:00Dina
In 1934 Bronislaw Huberman and his wife retu...Dina<br /><br />In 1934 Bronislaw Huberman and his wife returned to Palestine where he conceived of the idea of moving Europe’s most brilliant Jewish musicians to a safe haven. Although Toscanini didn't get to Tel Aviv until Dec 1936, can you imagine the excitement for those fortunate citizens who would have heard the orchestra play? <br /><br />They saved 73 world-class musicians, their spouses and children from almost certain extermination in the Holocaust.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-11761598914343386972014-08-02T18:42:52.279+10:002014-08-02T18:42:52.279+10:00So interesting.
I wish I had been born earlier to ...So interesting.<br />I wish I had been born earlier to see that concert in Tel Aviv.<br />When I first began to study and love classical music in school all the records I bought were conducted by Toscanini, but alas, the maestro was already dead. <br /><br />Hard to imagine "the belief that the powerful ship could outrun any pursuant." <br />Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461925401870320466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-71548943068056127872014-08-02T10:06:27.394+10:002014-08-02T10:06:27.394+10:00Jane and Lance
*nod* I often speculate on changin...Jane and Lance<br /><br />*nod* I often speculate on changing the course of history _en masse_, and I ask the students to as well. For example, might WW1 have finished much sooner, if the Americans had entered the war in 1914, instead of remaining neutral? How might Ireland's modern history have been different, had Oliver Cromwell led his campaign elsewhere?<br /><br />But until now, I have never thought about changing events _at the individual level_. One individual, even a talented one, seems too puny to influence nature.. or history.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-69372390388771480962014-08-01T22:35:37.150+10:002014-08-01T22:35:37.150+10:00Hello Helen,
What amazing twists and turns of fat...Hello Helen,<br /><br />What amazing twists and turns of fate you highlight here. So interesting to speculate what could have been the course of history if other decisions had been made. But then, that is so often the case in life.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-92043335802158457892014-07-30T00:06:19.384+10:002014-07-30T00:06:19.384+10:00Train Man,
a year after the War To End All Wars w...Train Man,<br /><br />a year after the War To End All Wars was decimating the population of Europe, I would not have gone on an ocean cruiser, even the most glamorous in the world. Especially since "on the day the Lusitania set sail from New York, the German Embassy ran ads in US newspapers, warning travellers to avoid liners flying the British flag. But the warnings went largely unheeded, due in part to the belief that the powerful ship could outrun any pursuant" (Smithsonian). <br /><br />Wrong!Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32352088002223330932014-07-29T22:22:36.220+10:002014-07-29T22:22:36.220+10:00There were so many business stars and cultural lea...There were so many business stars and cultural leaders who died on the Lusitania. Didn't they know about the World War and its imminent dangers to shipping?Train Mannoreply@blogger.com