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Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (I go forth and seek with longing), BWV 49, is a church cantata composed by J. S. Bach in 1726, his fourth year in Leipzig. Intended for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, he first performed it on 3 November that year. The librettist, Christoph Birkmann, based his text on the Sunday's Gospel, the Parable of the Great Banquet. He focused on the wedding feast, taking imagery from the love poetry of the Song of Songs, seen as a dialogue between Jesus and the Soul as his bride. The cantata, in six movements, begins with a sinfonia. Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano) perform alternating arias and dialogue recitatives. In the last dialogue, the bride sings a stanza from Nicolai's "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern". The voices are accompanied by oboe d'amore, violoncello piccolo, strings, organ and basso continuo, which Klaus Hofmann summarises: "Bach has clothed his music in the 'wedding garments' of exquisite scoring." (Full article...)
From tomorrow's featured article
Eunos MRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line (EWL) in Geylang, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station is connected to the Eunos Bus Interchange and provides access to nearby landmarks such as the Masjid Darul Aman and the Mangala Vihara Buddhist Temple. Eunos appeared in plans for the initial MRT system in May 1982, and construction of the station began in January 1986 under a joint venture between Oh Teck Thye and Okumura Corporation. Oh Teck Thye was placed under receivership in December 1986, terminating the joint venture, with Okumura continuing the project alone. Eunos, along with nine other stations from Marina Bay to Tanah Merah, opened on 4 November 1989. Platform screen doors were installed at Eunos in 2011. Unlike adjacent EWL elevated stations, which have domed roofs, Eunos has a traditional Malay roof. The station also has two murals as part of SMRT's heritage-themed Comic Connect public art display. (Full article...)
From the day after tomorrow's featured article
Nikolai Kulikovsky (5 November 1881 – 11 August 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovsky, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it. Kulikovsky and Olga eventually married and had two sons. Olga's brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution and Kulikovsky was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. The Kulikovskys were then forced into exile in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. The family emigrated to Canada in 1948. Kulikovsky died in 1958, aged 76, and was buried at York Cemetery, Toronto. (Full article...)
