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19 May the Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve spor Bayramı), is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, which is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence in the official historiography.

"Freedom and independence are my personality. I am a man filled with the love of independence which is my nation's greatest and my ancestors' most precious legacy. This love of mine is known by those who are closely familiar with every branch of my family and my private and professional life from my childhood days till now. In my opinion, in order for honor, personality, pride and humanity to come into existence and survive in a nation, it certainly has to have its freedom and independence. I personally consider very important to these virtues I have mentioned. And in order to argue that I have these innate virtues, I consider it to be a prerequisite that my nation be endowed with the same virtues. I must remain as the son of an independent nation in order to survive. That’s why, to me, national independence is a matter of life or death. If the interests of my nation and homeland require it, I assess the relations of friendship and politics with every nation in humanity with great sincerity. However, I would be the inexorable enemy of any nation wanting to enslave my nation until I make them give up their desire."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk



“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.
I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
~ Albert Einstein




Painting:
Vincent van Gogh. (Dutch, 1853-1890).
The Starry Night Saint Remy, June 1889



Lyrics and Music:
Don McLean, Vincent 1971.


Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.



Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.




Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.




Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.






For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.










I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
- Vincent van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~Vincent Van Gogh





Le Petit Prince

"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants"

"Quand vous leur parlez d'un nouvel ami, elles ne vous questionnent jamais sur l'essentiel. Elles ne vous disent jamais: "Quel est le son de sa voix? Quels sont les jeux qu'il préfère? Est-ce qu'il collectionne les papillons?" "

"Et si je connais, moi, une fleur unique au monde, qui n'existe nulle part, sauf dans ma planète, et qu'un petit mouton peut anéantir d'un seul coup, comme çà, un matin, sans se rendre compte de ce qu'il fait, ce n'est pas important çà!"

"Si quelqu'un aime une fleur qui n'existe qu'à un exemplaire dans les millions et les millions d'étoiles, ça suffit pour qu'il soit heureux quand il les regarde" ✿⊱╮


( [...] Mais si le mouton mange la fleur, c'est pour lui comme si, brusquement, toutes les étoiles s'éteignaient!)



...
Mais le renard revint à son idée :
-Ma vie est monotone. Je chasse les poules, les hommes me chassent. Toutes les poules se ressemblent, et tous les hommes se ressemblent. Je m'ennuie donc un peu. Mais si tu m'apprivoises, ma vie sera comme ensoleillée. Je connaîtrai un bruit de pas qui sera différent de tous les autres. Les autres pas me font rentrer sous terre. Le tien m'appelera hors du terrier, comme une musique. Et puis regarde! Tu vois, là-bas, les champs de blé? Je ne mange pas de pain. Le blé pour moi est inutile. Les champs de blé ne me rappellent rien. Et ça, c'est triste! Mais tu as des cheveux couleur d'or. Alors ce sera merveilleux quand tu m'auras apprivoisé! Le blé, qui est doré, me fera souvenir de toi. Et j'aimerai le bruit du vent dans le blé…
Le renard se tut et regarda longtemps le petit prince :
-S'il te plaît… apprivoise-moi! dit-il.


Ainsi le petit prince apprivoisa le renard. Et quand l'heure du départ fut proche :
-Ah! dit le renard… je pleurerai.
-C'est ta faute, dit le petit prince, je ne te souhaitais point de mal, mais tu as voulu que je t'apprivoise…
-Bien sûr, dit le renard.
-Mais tu vas pleurer! dit le petit prince.
-Bien sûr, dit le renard.
-Alors tu n'y gagnes rien!
-J'y gagne, dit le renard, à cause de la couleur du blé.


Antoine de Saint Exupéry




Fazıl Say


Fazil Say 's clarinet concerto "Khayyam"





Fazıl Say’ın bestesi Klarnet Konçertosu “Hayyam”


Fazıl Say - Black Earth (Kara Toprak)


Fazıl SAY ~ İstanbul Senfonisi - The Blue Mosque


Fazıl SAY ~ İstanbul Senfonisi


Fazıl Say plays Ulvi Cemal Erkin


Fazıl Say



Fazıl Say; Turkish composer, pianist
http://www.suite101.fr/content/fazil-say-pianiste-et-compositeur-virtuose-2-a9527




Istanbul - Uzak English title: Distant by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish filmmaker and photographer



Uzak [Distant]
Uzak is a great turkish movie that tells us about “the meaninglessness of life” in a very meaningful way. The story is about two very strong characters, a man and his cousin. the man, mahmut, is a strong character whose life is at distant with peoples around him because his self-prideness, which costs him his married life and his awkward relationship with yusuf, his cousin from a rural village seeking job in Istanbul...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_rETJduYt8&feature=related






John Cage - Rozart Mix


"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
— John Cage

46000th track: (18 Nov 2011)
Fazıl Say - Silence of Anatolia

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Fazıl Say - Pictures At An Exhibition: II. Il Vecchio Castello

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Ahmet Adnan Saygun - I. Deciso

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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly, op.97a: Introduction (Prelude)

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Ahmet Adnan Saygun - II. Improvisation: Lento

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Fazil Say - Concerto Silk Road

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Fazil Say - Istanbul Symphony Op.28: III.Blue Mosque
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