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Moldova is the least visited country in Europe (and one of the least visited in the world). We knew nothing about it before we visited it for the first time last year. Today I asked the guys here what was Moldova's best known export and they told me that it was O-Zone (one hit band) and this song in particular. And indeed I think I heard it before in London. I did not know that it was a Moldovan band though. The guy who wrote the song (the tallest of them) earned slightly over ten million euros from its international success and now lives in New York.

Berlin-based Israeli director Noaz Deshe — an acclaimed cinematographer known for his award-winning Ryan Gosling-produced feature White Shadow—talks about his video for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’s track “Wake Up The Sun.”

“Outside Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, you find time stands still — communism and religion are still the backdrop of an identity not yet conquered by the east or the west.

“It seems like any minute chain stores will spring up, but for now it is undefined by the powers that be. I was struck by the beauty of an identity not yet overtaken by what has become all - too familiar—the song struck that chord with me."

On December 5th 2015, Nikolaus Harnoncourt informed his audience in an open letter that he would immediately retire from stage. Tree months later, on March 5th 2016, he died surrounded by his family at his house at Attersee.

He was very HIP.

Historically Informed Performance (HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived. Whenever this knowledge conflicts with current aesthetic criteria, the option of re-training the listener/viewer, as opposed to adapting the work, is normally followed. Music is usually played on instruments corresponding to the period of the piece being played, such as period instruments for early music.

I think HIP is fascinating but at the same time I could agree with much of Tarushkin's criticism of it. I know very little about music though.

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Moldova's best known export

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