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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Good news!
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The show will be broadcasted live on TVR3 and TVR International.
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TVR3 - Saturday, September 19th - 9pm to 11pm (local time)
TVR International - Saturday, September 19th - 11:30pm (local time - for time conversion see here). According to the schedule of this station, there'll be only 30 minutes of broadcast. But maybe it's just a mistake.
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For those who won't be in Bucharest, a short introduction about the place where the concert takes place. It's called Constitution Square and it's on one side of the Palace of Parliament..
The stage is placed where the cars are. And the artists face the Palace of Parliament. It always looks like this by night.
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The Palace of the Romanian Parliament it's a "giant" built during the "golden age" of the dictatorial regime and born in the mind of a man for whom the notion of "reasonable size" did not exist.
Still, there is a "first place " no other building in the whole world could compete for, namely that of the most disputed one, as no other construction has, until nowadays, been the target of such a great number of epithets, varying from "genius" to "monstruos".
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Built and rebuilt overnight, the haughty "Republic House" had swallowed tens of billions of lei and a huge volume of work before the Revolution.
The construction was started and raised while many Romanians experienced a period of privations. Probably that is the reason why, at the very beginning the building was the object of their hate.
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After December 1989, the building which may easily be spotted wherever you are in Bucharest, was considered to be hideous and become subject to the most original ideas. Some, out of the revolutionary excitement, agreed that it should be dynamited, as it stood for the symbol of communism. Others agreed that it could accomodate a museum of communism. Realizing its enormous value, in fact a Romanian inheritance in danger of being destroyed and robbed, people began to view the building with less hostility and named it the "People's House".
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Consequently, the builders resumed their work and, as the works were carried on, it was decided that the construction should be house the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Romania, and that it should change its name to the "Palace of Parliament" - a symbol of democracy.
In May 1994, the International Conference Centre was set up according to a decision of the Chamber of Deputies; the meetings of the Crans Montana Forum were held within its halls. The Palace of Parliament is also open to be visited by groups of tourists, everyday.
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The construction, started in July 1984, has 6 registers and 21 bodies. The pompous halls and galleries are generously decorated with monumental sculptures, golden plaster, laced ceilings, brocharts, tapestries and heavy carpets, which harmoniously overwhelm the visitors.
The Marble from Ruschita sends its reflections from the floors and columns to the walls and ceilings. The oak, mahogony and beck wood welcome the visitors with the warmth of their refined sculptures that may be equaled only by the plaster work or the crystals and the bross of the chandeliers.
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Anyone visiting the Palace of Parliament, designed and built at great cost, effort and sacrifice by Romanian specialists and the whole of Romanian industry, comes to realize that this is not o palace from Aladdin's stories, but a real one, displaying the true wealth of Romania: stone, marble and wood from the Romanian mountains and forests.
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So far, only the date (19.09)/time (9pm local time)/location (Constitution Square)/participants (Angela Gheorghiu, Vlad Mirita, were announced. No word about the program.

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