If ye love Me, keep My commandments

Playout date: 31 January 2007
Duration: 3:12
Views at the time added to HTV: 66,348
Likes at the time added to HTV: 76
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 11
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 87.4%
Comments at time added: 32
Total interactions at time added: 119
Camera: Panasonic DMZ -FZ30
Post Production: None
Location: Church of Holy Sepulchre, Warsaw
Other people featured: Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna
Genre: Concert
Music used: If ye love me, by Thomas Tallis
Languages used: English
Animals/plants featured: None
Other remarks:

This performance by Richard Berkeley’s Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna of Thomas Tallis’ wonderful setting of John 14:15-17 has been enjoyed by many people in this YT clip. Indeed, although the Church (where Chopin’s heart lies entombed in a pillar) was full of people on the night, one hundred times as many have heard this thanks to the wonders of YT and social media.

Richard Berkeley was then and remains now one of the treasures among the non_polish community of Warsaw. He has contributed immensely to the cultural and social life of this city and of my family’s experience of it. His view that music brings people together is only part of it. His great personality also has that effect. When I look through my contacts I am sometimes amazed to see the number of people I met through Richard.

Richard, if you should chance to be reading this, thank you.

Fitzwilliam crushes Leicester on Uni Challenge

I am particularly pleased to see a Russian student from Fitzwilliam on the team, although Howe who studies Japanese is also a man of taste with his subject of study as well as his articles of tricotage. Subarashii desu ne!

Here they are again some weeks later smashing Magdalen, Oxford, and doing not only themselves and Fitz but all of Cambridge proud;

 

 

And finally they meet their match against Merton:

But an excellent battle and an excellent run, well done!

RL102-2 part 2

Playout date: 31 January 2007
Duration: 11:13
Views at the time added to HTV: 27,284
Likes at the time added to HTV: 208
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 2
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 99.0%
Comments at time added: 73
Total interactions at time added: 283
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – medium use
Location: Home and Office at Jazdow
Other people featured: None
Genre: Lesson
Music used: Ya Vas Lyubil (“I loved you”) by Pushkin, a capello
Languages used: English and Russian
Animals/plants featured: None
Other remarks:

An explanation of the varying degrees of formality and how to address someone in Russia, the idea of “vy” and “ty”, when to use name and patronymic, when to use diminuatives. Explanation of how the periphrastic “do” is not present in Russian, and that the present tense contains I do, I do do, and I am doing. Owing to the size, the lesson is split into two parts.

Huliganov’s Russian Course RL102-2 part 1

Playout date: 28 January 2007
Duration: 16:06
Views at the time added to HTV: 36,587
Likes at the time added to HTV: 204
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 2
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 99.0%
Comments at time added: 55
Total interactions at time added: 261
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – medium use
Location: Home
Other people featured: None
Genre: Lesson
Music used: Daszkiewicz Theme from Sherlock Holmes
Languages used: English and Russian
Animals/plants featured: None
Other remarks:

An explanation of the varying degrees of formality and how to address someone in Russia, the idea of “vy” and “ty”, when to use name and patronymic, when to use diminuatives. Explanation of how the periphrastic “do” is not present in Russian, and that the present tense contains I do, I do do, and I am doing. Owing to the size, the lesson is split into two parts.

Huliganov’s “Brown Eyes Blue”

Playout date: 21 January 2007
Duration: 5:24
Views at the time added to HTV: 909
Likes at the time added to HTV: 9
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 21
Popularity % ” ” ” =L/(L+D): 30.0%
Comments at time added: 9
Total interactions at time added: 39
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – slight use
Location: Home
Other people featured: None
Genre: Intro’d song
Music used: Crystal Gayle “Brown Eyes Blue”
Languages used: English, little Russian
Animals/plants featured: None
Other remarks:

Huliganov explains the poetic metaphor in the lyrics of this Crystal Gale number. Clearly eyes cannot be both brown and blue at the same time. It is all down to the use of an oxymoron, but “hopefully her eyes went brown again afterwards”.