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Few Notes

We apologize for the delinquency in releasing this issue two weeks late. We'd like to thank all of our contributors for their patience and enthusiasm. Our Ninth Anniversary Issue XXII will release in June, 2011. In the meantime, please welcome all our wonderful writers whose heartbeats made February's Issue possible.

[In the flash presentation, the music composition, Vltava better known as "The Moldau" is by Bedřich Smetana. More information is pending and will be published here when available. In the meantime, this partial information is from Wikipedia:

Má vlast (traditionally translated as "My Country", though more strictly meaning "homeland") is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. While it is often presented as a single work in six movements and–with the exception of Vltava–is almost always recorded that way, the six pieces were conceived as individual works. They had their own separate premieres between 1875 and 1880; the premiere of the complete set took place on 5 November 1882 in Prague.

In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect of the countryside, history, or legends of Bohemia.