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Nov
18
The United Nations has placed Lithuania’s unique polyphonic folk songs called sutartines on a UNESCO heritage list, highlighting the Baltic nations drive to preserve the traditional art.
“We rejoice at this event as it is important both to Lithuanian and world culture,” Gintare Tamasauskaite of Lithuania’s National Commission for UNESCO
The UN agency placed sutartines on its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity a day earlier, along with some 50 other cultural practices including French cuisine, Spanish flamenco music, Mexican traditional cuisine and Croatian gingerbread. Sutartines are polyphonic rhythmical songs performed by two, three or four female singers who simultaneously sing different phrases, creating complex harmonies. Experts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Kenya this week praised sutartines for providing “a feeling of cultural identity, continuity and self-esteem.” In 2003, UNESCO added massive Baltic song and dance celebrations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to its list.
Sep
29
The first reference to the name of Lithuania in written sources comes to us in the story related to the tragic end of St. Bruno’s mission in1009 as described in the annals of Quedlinburg, Germany (Annales Quedlinburgenses). The text written in the 11th century failed to survive and its copy made in the middle of the 16th century is kept in Dresden, Germany.
St. Brunon, alias Bonifacius, archbishop and monk was killed by the pagans together with 18 of his brethren on the Russian –Lithuanian border on the eleventh year of his conversion and on the 9th of March ascended into the heaven.
