Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony. It was first performed in May 1926, having been written as his graduation project. Its first performance was a sensation, and soon it was being played all over the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-year-old composer won world renown.
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
