Monthly Archives September 2013

The prestigious Staatskapelle of Berlin, conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim, on Sunday evening, in Bucharest, opened the 21st George Enescu Festival with George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D Major, Op 11. The Romanian born pianist Radu Lupu, who was acclaimed on the great international stages the world over, then played Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto No 4 for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, Op 58 and was rewarded with much applause at the end of his out-of-the-ordinary performance. The programme of the concert also included Sir Edward Elgar’s Symphony No 2 in E Flat Major, Op 63. Maestro
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Monsignor Vladimir Ghika (1873 – 1954), a Roman Catholic priest and Romanian prince, was beatified on Saturday, August 31, being declared ‘blessed’ in a Solemn Liturgy presided by Pope Francis’s envoy Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. According to the beatification ritual, after Bucharest Metropolitan Archbishop made the Pontiff’s envoy the request to put Monsignor Ghika among the blessed and presented his biography, Cardinal Amato read the Pope’s Apostolic Letter in Latin. The letter was then read in Romanian: “Fulfilling the request of My Brother Ioan Robu, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucharest, as
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President Traian Basescu has congratulated the Romanians on the Romanian Language Day celebrated on August 31 and has stressed the day celebrates one of the most important symbols of the national identity. ‘We celebrate the Romanian Language Day on August 31, starting this year, a day in which the Romanians and the Romanian speakers from everywhere honour one of the most important symbols of our national identity. Around 30 million Romanian speakers live in the world today and for nearly 25 million of them Romanian is their mother-tongue’, Basescu said in a message. The Romanian leader underscored we have the
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