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Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn - SWAN LAKE - act 3 Pas de Deux
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Act 3 Pas de Deux
Ballet "Swan Lake" by P.Tchaikovsky
published: 02 Oct 2019
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Best of Rudolf Nureyev - The Greatest Male Ballet Dancer -
Today (3/17) is the birthday of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-Tatar family. He began his early career with the company that in the Soviet era was called the Kirov Ballet (now called by its original name, the Mariinsky Ballet) in Leningrad. He defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. This was the first defection of a Soviet artist during the Cold War, and it created an international sensation. He went on to dance with The Royal Ballet in London and from 1983 to 1989 served as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. In addition to his technical prowess, Nureyev was an accomplished choreographer serving as the chief choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet. He...
published: 17 Mar 2021
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1/2 Rare. Rudolph Nureyev performing solo in act 1 of "Swan Lake".
1 act solo.
Rudolf Nureyev performing Siegfried's solo of act 1.
published: 09 Nov 2006
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NUREYEV (2018) | Official Trailer
Tracing the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian dancer who became a cultural icon, blending archive interviews with dance sequences.
#Nureyev #TheWhiteCrow
DocBusters: The Home of World Class Documentaries.
From athletes to artists, this channel focuses on those who achieved the pinnacle, and what it took to get them there. Join us as we journey through the highs and lows of success, the price of fame and the taste of victory in these award winning exploratory documentaries.
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published: 16 May 2019
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Rudolf Nureyev | Dance to Freedom BBC | in English
The extraordinary Russian ballet dancer: the breathtaking story about his life in USSR and to the departure to abroad with comments his friends, colleagues and ex-special agents !
published: 30 Sep 2018
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Rudolf Nureyev, 54, (1938-1993) Soviet Ballet dancer
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev, 54, (17th March 1938 - 6th January 1993) was a Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is regarded as one of ballet's most gifted male dancers. He died of AIDS.
published: 19 Jan 2018
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Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 16, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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published: 21 Aug 2020
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Minkus / Nureyev: Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote (Australian Ballet)
This spectacular film of Don Quixote, choregraphed after Petipa and directed for the screen by Russian ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev, is recognised as one of the finest ballet performances ever caught on camera and a cinematic triumph in its own right.
Filmed in Melbourne with the Australian Ballet in 1973, the cast includes Nureyev as Basilio, Sir Robert Helpmann as the deluded knight and Lucette Aldous as Kitri. This timeless story of love, gallantry and misadventure – all unfolding with Minkus’s exhilarating Spanish-flavoured music – has stood the test of time as one of the world’s most popular ballets.
Lovingly restored from the original 35mm film, and to be heard for the first time in full surround sound digital stereo created for the DVD and Blu-ray release, this is finally, ho...
published: 30 Nov 2021
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Asha Elijah ~ Angel song
Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings 'Angel song' from his album "Life is Change." CD/download when the album is ready.
I made another YouTube for this recent song just a few weeks ago. This one is different though. I had an impulse to film the night-time landing (nearly midnight) in sparkly Budapest, of the Wizz Air flight from London Luton airport, back to Budapest this week.
A gentle voice inside whispered to me to keep on filming!
Budapest came into view, and we flew over where my little studio flat is, near the Margaret Bridge, by the Duna (Danube). I was thinking of a love, of a long lost love, through which (indirectly) I had come to migrate to Budapest in the first place, in 2016.
I grew up and was born in London, but somehow in all these years I never felt myself to be a...
published: 10 Mar 2024
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Rudolph Nureyev at Muppet Show
very nice!
published: 13 Jan 2009
4:33
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn - SWAN LAKE - act 3 Pas de Deux
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Act 3 Pas de Deux
Ballet "Swan Lake" by P.Tchaikovsky
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Act 3 Pas de Deux
Ballet "Swan Lake" by P.Tchaikovsky
https://wn.com/Rudolph_Nureyev_And_Margot_Fonteyn_Swan_Lake_Act_3_Pas_De_Deux
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Act 3 Pas de Deux
Ballet "Swan Lake" by P.Tchaikovsky
- published: 02 Oct 2019
- views: 2044818
25:43
Best of Rudolf Nureyev - The Greatest Male Ballet Dancer -
Today (3/17) is the birthday of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-Ta...
Today (3/17) is the birthday of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-Tatar family. He began his early career with the company that in the Soviet era was called the Kirov Ballet (now called by its original name, the Mariinsky Ballet) in Leningrad. He defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. This was the first defection of a Soviet artist during the Cold War, and it created an international sensation. He went on to dance with The Royal Ballet in London and from 1983 to 1989 served as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. In addition to his technical prowess, Nureyev was an accomplished choreographer serving as the chief choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet. He produced his own interpretations of numerous classical works, including Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadère.
This video includes:
00:00 Le Corsaire (Ali)
https://youtu.be/8gVND72cLQA
01:06 Don Quixote (Basilio)
https://youtu.be/hFq-bYATPCQ
02:04 The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Florimund)
https://youtu.be/lehlDCwJCoU
03:16 La Sylphide (James)
https://youtu.be/aSJSifSvWxo
04:00 Apollo
https://youtu.be/fF0HsINEu6k
06:04 The Nutcracker (Prince)
https://youtu.be/5fh8PTn10Ag
06:55 Giselle (Count Albrecht)
https://youtu.be/7Ui2KPFm3t8
07:47 Gayane
https://youtu.be/7_BhkmkSHDY
09:13 Laurencia (Frondoso)
https://youtu.be/Fd0NPDRhsfY
09:55 Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
https://youtu.be/aDCNmD-dvq4
13:27 Pierrot Lunaire
https://youtu.be/LUKd5f1oXy0
14:56 Romeo and Juliet (Romeo)
https://youtu.be/L2LByyYsOD4
15:59 Raymonda (Jean de Brienne)
https://youtu.be/0QsiakWauME
17:11 Les Sylphides
https://youtu.be/DQCQWZP2T_E
18:47 Le Spectre de la rose
https://youtu.be/mKgHCg3KAQM
20:01 Afternoon of a Faun
https://youtu.be/m7b1FkZYarU
22:21 Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried)
https://youtu.be/TrODO0RfEtM
https://wn.com/Best_Of_Rudolf_Nureyev_The_Greatest_Male_Ballet_Dancer
Today (3/17) is the birthday of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union to a Bashkir-Tatar family. He began his early career with the company that in the Soviet era was called the Kirov Ballet (now called by its original name, the Mariinsky Ballet) in Leningrad. He defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. This was the first defection of a Soviet artist during the Cold War, and it created an international sensation. He went on to dance with The Royal Ballet in London and from 1983 to 1989 served as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. In addition to his technical prowess, Nureyev was an accomplished choreographer serving as the chief choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet. He produced his own interpretations of numerous classical works, including Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadère.
This video includes:
00:00 Le Corsaire (Ali)
https://youtu.be/8gVND72cLQA
01:06 Don Quixote (Basilio)
https://youtu.be/hFq-bYATPCQ
02:04 The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Florimund)
https://youtu.be/lehlDCwJCoU
03:16 La Sylphide (James)
https://youtu.be/aSJSifSvWxo
04:00 Apollo
https://youtu.be/fF0HsINEu6k
06:04 The Nutcracker (Prince)
https://youtu.be/5fh8PTn10Ag
06:55 Giselle (Count Albrecht)
https://youtu.be/7Ui2KPFm3t8
07:47 Gayane
https://youtu.be/7_BhkmkSHDY
09:13 Laurencia (Frondoso)
https://youtu.be/Fd0NPDRhsfY
09:55 Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
https://youtu.be/aDCNmD-dvq4
13:27 Pierrot Lunaire
https://youtu.be/LUKd5f1oXy0
14:56 Romeo and Juliet (Romeo)
https://youtu.be/L2LByyYsOD4
15:59 Raymonda (Jean de Brienne)
https://youtu.be/0QsiakWauME
17:11 Les Sylphides
https://youtu.be/DQCQWZP2T_E
18:47 Le Spectre de la rose
https://youtu.be/mKgHCg3KAQM
20:01 Afternoon of a Faun
https://youtu.be/m7b1FkZYarU
22:21 Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried)
https://youtu.be/TrODO0RfEtM
- published: 17 Mar 2021
- views: 792167
2:01
NUREYEV (2018) | Official Trailer
Tracing the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian dancer who became a cultural icon, blending archive interviews with dance sequences.
#Nureyev #Th...
Tracing the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian dancer who became a cultural icon, blending archive interviews with dance sequences.
#Nureyev #TheWhiteCrow
DocBusters: The Home of World Class Documentaries.
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https://wn.com/Nureyev_(2018)_|_Official_Trailer
Tracing the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian dancer who became a cultural icon, blending archive interviews with dance sequences.
#Nureyev #TheWhiteCrow
DocBusters: The Home of World Class Documentaries.
From athletes to artists, this channel focuses on those who achieved the pinnacle, and what it took to get them there. Join us as we journey through the highs and lows of success, the price of fame and the taste of victory in these award winning exploratory documentaries.
Subscribe here: https://goo.gl/8UHnki
- published: 16 May 2019
- views: 66829
1:29:11
Rudolf Nureyev | Dance to Freedom BBC | in English
The extraordinary Russian ballet dancer: the breathtaking story about his life in USSR and to the departure to abroad with comments his friends, colleagues and ...
The extraordinary Russian ballet dancer: the breathtaking story about his life in USSR and to the departure to abroad with comments his friends, colleagues and ex-special agents !
https://wn.com/Rudolf_Nureyev_|_Dance_To_Freedom_BBC_|_In_English
The extraordinary Russian ballet dancer: the breathtaking story about his life in USSR and to the departure to abroad with comments his friends, colleagues and ex-special agents !
- published: 30 Sep 2018
- views: 175299
44:09
Rudolf Nureyev, 54, (1938-1993) Soviet Ballet dancer
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev, 54, (17th March 1938 - 6th January 1993) was a Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet fro...
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev, 54, (17th March 1938 - 6th January 1993) was a Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is regarded as one of ballet's most gifted male dancers. He died of AIDS.
https://wn.com/Rudolf_Nureyev,_54,_(1938_1993)_Soviet_Ballet_Dancer
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev, 54, (17th March 1938 - 6th January 1993) was a Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is regarded as one of ballet's most gifted male dancers. He died of AIDS.
- published: 19 Jan 2018
- views: 1142228
3:23
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 16, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscri...
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 16, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world's greatest talents. The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n' roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day.
© SOFA Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.
#SwanLake #Ballet #EdSullivanShow
https://wn.com/Margot_Fonteyn_Rudolf_Nureyev_Swan_Lake_On_The_Ed_Sullivan_Show
Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev "Swan Lake" on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 16, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
Watch Motown performances from The Ed Sullivan Show https://youtube.com/watch?v=B9YrYoY0N4I&list=PLQWND5qZhbj3tfQKiK-5FzjLSTUz5WRTf
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The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world's greatest talents. The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n' roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day.
© SOFA Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.
#SwanLake #Ballet #EdSullivanShow
- published: 21 Aug 2020
- views: 145749
1:04
Minkus / Nureyev: Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote (Australian Ballet)
This spectacular film of Don Quixote, choregraphed after Petipa and directed for the screen by Russian ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev, is recognised as one of ...
This spectacular film of Don Quixote, choregraphed after Petipa and directed for the screen by Russian ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev, is recognised as one of the finest ballet performances ever caught on camera and a cinematic triumph in its own right.
Filmed in Melbourne with the Australian Ballet in 1973, the cast includes Nureyev as Basilio, Sir Robert Helpmann as the deluded knight and Lucette Aldous as Kitri. This timeless story of love, gallantry and misadventure – all unfolding with Minkus’s exhilarating Spanish-flavoured music – has stood the test of time as one of the world’s most popular ballets.
Lovingly restored from the original 35mm film, and to be heard for the first time in full surround sound digital stereo created for the DVD and Blu-ray release, this is finally, how Nureyev intended his Don Quixote to be seen and heard.
Basilio - Rudolf Nureyev
Don Quixote - Robert Helpmann
Sancho Panzo - Ray Powell
Kitri / Dulcinea - Lucette Aldous
Gamache - Colin Peasley
Street Dancer / Queen of the Dryads - Marilyn Rowe
Espada - Kelvin Coe
State Orchestra of Victoria
Conductor - John Lanchbery
Director and Choreographer - Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
Composer - Ludwig Minkus
Arranged by John Lanchbery
Catalogue numbers: OA1350D (DVD) / OABD7301D (BLU-RAY)
Release Date - November 2021
More information here:
DVD - https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1350D
Blu-Ray - https://naxos.lnk.to/OABD7301D
https://wn.com/Minkus_Nureyev_Rudolf_Nureyev's_Don_Quixote_(Australian_Ballet)
This spectacular film of Don Quixote, choregraphed after Petipa and directed for the screen by Russian ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev, is recognised as one of the finest ballet performances ever caught on camera and a cinematic triumph in its own right.
Filmed in Melbourne with the Australian Ballet in 1973, the cast includes Nureyev as Basilio, Sir Robert Helpmann as the deluded knight and Lucette Aldous as Kitri. This timeless story of love, gallantry and misadventure – all unfolding with Minkus’s exhilarating Spanish-flavoured music – has stood the test of time as one of the world’s most popular ballets.
Lovingly restored from the original 35mm film, and to be heard for the first time in full surround sound digital stereo created for the DVD and Blu-ray release, this is finally, how Nureyev intended his Don Quixote to be seen and heard.
Basilio - Rudolf Nureyev
Don Quixote - Robert Helpmann
Sancho Panzo - Ray Powell
Kitri / Dulcinea - Lucette Aldous
Gamache - Colin Peasley
Street Dancer / Queen of the Dryads - Marilyn Rowe
Espada - Kelvin Coe
State Orchestra of Victoria
Conductor - John Lanchbery
Director and Choreographer - Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
Composer - Ludwig Minkus
Arranged by John Lanchbery
Catalogue numbers: OA1350D (DVD) / OABD7301D (BLU-RAY)
Release Date - November 2021
More information here:
DVD - https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1350D
Blu-Ray - https://naxos.lnk.to/OABD7301D
- published: 30 Nov 2021
- views: 25512
5:37
Asha Elijah ~ Angel song
Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings 'Angel song' from his album "Life is Change." CD/download when the album is ready.
I made another YouTube for this r...
Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings 'Angel song' from his album "Life is Change." CD/download when the album is ready.
I made another YouTube for this recent song just a few weeks ago. This one is different though. I had an impulse to film the night-time landing (nearly midnight) in sparkly Budapest, of the Wizz Air flight from London Luton airport, back to Budapest this week.
A gentle voice inside whispered to me to keep on filming!
Budapest came into view, and we flew over where my little studio flat is, near the Margaret Bridge, by the Duna (Danube). I was thinking of a love, of a long lost love, through which (indirectly) I had come to migrate to Budapest in the first place, in 2016.
I grew up and was born in London, but somehow in all these years I never felt myself to be a Londoner, exactly. I felt like a grateful guest, but I never quite felt English, or fully at home in England.
My inner imaginative landscape is more southern, more Mediterranean, perhaps; as is the landscape that turns up in my night-time dreams. My birth mother is Russian (I was adopted). Her family fled Jewish persecution in the Pale Settlement, specifically from Orsa in today's Belarus. They escaped through Lithuania, and took a boat to England.
Some historical but also transpersonal research locates their actual family origins to places much further south & east however, going back several generation, to areas around Georgia, and the lower Volga, and to places such as Samara & Kazan, in today's Tatarstan.
The dancer Rudolf Nureyev was of Tatar stock, and some of my features are similar to his. Also, I have a half-sister through my birth mother's line and her name is Samara, though I don't think there was any conscious intention to name her after that place.
I have also discovered that several ancient Hungarian tribes (Hun & magyar tribes) lived in that area, and mingled with the Jews & Persians. The great Silk Road trading route from Europe to the far east united many cultures in days gone by, and this was just a little further south in today's Kazakhstan.
The great Hungarian King Nimrod was a brother or cousin of Ashkenaz (a Jewish founding father), both grand-children of the biblical prophet Noah. And one Hungarian tribe to be found in Persia, the Parthians, also extended out towards these regions.
Early photographs of my birth-mother show a dark-haired girl with a Parthian complexion. The mother of Jesus of Nazareth was also of Parthian origin.
But that is not directly how I came to make this film, and compose and sing this song!
I was returning to Budapest from a short visit to London to see my family. I'm now amicably divorced and our sons are grown (26 & 29). They live in our family house in Putney, with our two cats, Lupin & Bliss.
My ex-wife and I have evolved different but parallel spiritual paths, she more in the Daoist tradition, and I more as a Christian mystic. We were establishing independence without quite realising it when a twist of fate (or an act of God) threw me together soulfully with a Hungarian twin-flame, in 2007.
I did not actually visit Hungary until 2011, though, by which time we had established a kind of soulful trajectory which sort of flew at a different altitude to my marriage, and to her earth life in Hungary.
Between 2011-2014 this intensified until another act of God separated us. There was a rare & exceptional hurricane & flood in Budapest on May 14th/ 15th, 2014. We were about to establish the beginnings of a more physical infra-structure, when the storm hit and her flight was cancelled.
Lorries & trees were strewn across the road, and Hungary's prime-minister Viktor Orban was there putting up sandbags by the Danube to prevent flooding!
My twin-flame realised in that moment that ours was a love that could not be physicalised any further, it could ONLY live in our hearts.
This broke us apart, though.
In the film I write about this in sub-titles; about my marriage & family, the mysterious twin-flame encounter & about feeling at home in Budapest. As I sing about the lost love, I write about my family and these overlays.
And all the while, the plane is gently gliding down over Budapest, on a clear, cold & starry March night.
They all go together somehow; the music; the lyrics; the story & the flight, though I had no script or conscious intention for this. It was a purely creative intuition to bring it together in song.
Remarkably, I filmed pretty much exactly the right length of film from first glimpsing Budapest to the landing, allowing some time for the credits.
It was as if the whole little project was written and scripted by the angels. My job was just to get my camera out by my window-seat and then edit it at home!
When I was filming, I was not thinking of this song. But when I saw the footage and played this song as a possible sound-track, I cried.
And there are 4979 characters here. 49 is my lucky number, and 79 was the year she was born!
https://wn.com/Asha_Elijah_~_Angel_Song
Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings 'Angel song' from his album "Life is Change." CD/download when the album is ready.
I made another YouTube for this recent song just a few weeks ago. This one is different though. I had an impulse to film the night-time landing (nearly midnight) in sparkly Budapest, of the Wizz Air flight from London Luton airport, back to Budapest this week.
A gentle voice inside whispered to me to keep on filming!
Budapest came into view, and we flew over where my little studio flat is, near the Margaret Bridge, by the Duna (Danube). I was thinking of a love, of a long lost love, through which (indirectly) I had come to migrate to Budapest in the first place, in 2016.
I grew up and was born in London, but somehow in all these years I never felt myself to be a Londoner, exactly. I felt like a grateful guest, but I never quite felt English, or fully at home in England.
My inner imaginative landscape is more southern, more Mediterranean, perhaps; as is the landscape that turns up in my night-time dreams. My birth mother is Russian (I was adopted). Her family fled Jewish persecution in the Pale Settlement, specifically from Orsa in today's Belarus. They escaped through Lithuania, and took a boat to England.
Some historical but also transpersonal research locates their actual family origins to places much further south & east however, going back several generation, to areas around Georgia, and the lower Volga, and to places such as Samara & Kazan, in today's Tatarstan.
The dancer Rudolf Nureyev was of Tatar stock, and some of my features are similar to his. Also, I have a half-sister through my birth mother's line and her name is Samara, though I don't think there was any conscious intention to name her after that place.
I have also discovered that several ancient Hungarian tribes (Hun & magyar tribes) lived in that area, and mingled with the Jews & Persians. The great Silk Road trading route from Europe to the far east united many cultures in days gone by, and this was just a little further south in today's Kazakhstan.
The great Hungarian King Nimrod was a brother or cousin of Ashkenaz (a Jewish founding father), both grand-children of the biblical prophet Noah. And one Hungarian tribe to be found in Persia, the Parthians, also extended out towards these regions.
Early photographs of my birth-mother show a dark-haired girl with a Parthian complexion. The mother of Jesus of Nazareth was also of Parthian origin.
But that is not directly how I came to make this film, and compose and sing this song!
I was returning to Budapest from a short visit to London to see my family. I'm now amicably divorced and our sons are grown (26 & 29). They live in our family house in Putney, with our two cats, Lupin & Bliss.
My ex-wife and I have evolved different but parallel spiritual paths, she more in the Daoist tradition, and I more as a Christian mystic. We were establishing independence without quite realising it when a twist of fate (or an act of God) threw me together soulfully with a Hungarian twin-flame, in 2007.
I did not actually visit Hungary until 2011, though, by which time we had established a kind of soulful trajectory which sort of flew at a different altitude to my marriage, and to her earth life in Hungary.
Between 2011-2014 this intensified until another act of God separated us. There was a rare & exceptional hurricane & flood in Budapest on May 14th/ 15th, 2014. We were about to establish the beginnings of a more physical infra-structure, when the storm hit and her flight was cancelled.
Lorries & trees were strewn across the road, and Hungary's prime-minister Viktor Orban was there putting up sandbags by the Danube to prevent flooding!
My twin-flame realised in that moment that ours was a love that could not be physicalised any further, it could ONLY live in our hearts.
This broke us apart, though.
In the film I write about this in sub-titles; about my marriage & family, the mysterious twin-flame encounter & about feeling at home in Budapest. As I sing about the lost love, I write about my family and these overlays.
And all the while, the plane is gently gliding down over Budapest, on a clear, cold & starry March night.
They all go together somehow; the music; the lyrics; the story & the flight, though I had no script or conscious intention for this. It was a purely creative intuition to bring it together in song.
Remarkably, I filmed pretty much exactly the right length of film from first glimpsing Budapest to the landing, allowing some time for the credits.
It was as if the whole little project was written and scripted by the angels. My job was just to get my camera out by my window-seat and then edit it at home!
When I was filming, I was not thinking of this song. But when I saw the footage and played this song as a possible sound-track, I cried.
And there are 4979 characters here. 49 is my lucky number, and 79 was the year she was born!
- published: 10 Mar 2024
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