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Pianist Enkhtur to perform in the USA PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 18 February 2006
Enkhtur Tsendorj (Piano) MA, from the Academy of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar,
MONGOLIA.

His father, G,Tsendorj, a famous composer himself who gave his son piano lessons
from our famous pianist Tuvaan Tsolmon. Ts.Enkhtur was student of T.Tsolmon,
T.B.Galizkaya, A.A.Turina and A.B.Savelena.

Mr. Enkhtur is a Graduate of the Tchaikovsky Academy Music College of Moskow,
and he'd been given masterclasses in the University of Arts, Khokh hot, CHINA.

He has performed numerious piano concertos, such asL.Beethoven 5th concert,
F.Chopin 1st Concert, P.Tchaikovsky 1st Concert, and etc.

He will be performing in the U.S.A for the first time in Chicago, IL.

Please welcome to his performance and enjoy an evening of Mongolian and World
classic music.

Address:
North Shore Unitarian Church
2100 Half Day Church
Deerfield, IL 60015

February 24, 2006 at 7pm.

Ticket: $20.00

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Museum set on fire and guard killed in Zavkhan Aimag, Mongolia PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
On 13 January, a night guard at the museum of Zavkhan province was murdered by two criminals who stole some of the most valuable objects of museum's collections such as khalkha woman's hairdresses, belts and rare coral mask of Jamsran. They even set the museum on fire to erase any possible traces. But province's fire station and people extinguished fire promptly.

When the police captured two criminals, they were burying guard corpse. The rare coral mask of Jamsran is one of the masks which is only four in Mongolia.

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New Cultural Tourism Itineraries PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Mandal Tours is offering a series of exclusive study tours of Mongolia from June to September 2006, in partnership with local cultural organizations. The tours will be led by Mongolian and international experts, and will focus on providing unique encounters with local scholars, artists, nomadic herders and Buddhist monks. Proceeds will help support cultural heritage promotion and restoration projects. Find out more . . .

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Mongolia: An Octocentennial Calendar PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 10 February 2006
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art - Cultural Event Series - Spring 2006
The year 2006 marks the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan’s founding of
the Mongolian state. To commemorate the historic event, Oglethorpe
University Museum of Art together with the Institute for International
and Comparative Studies at Emory University and the Georgia East Asian
Research Schools Consortium (GEARS), is sponsoring a series of cultural
events celebrating and examining Mongol history, culture and politics.
Additional cultural events at Oglethorpe University Museum of Art are
included.


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Mongolia Scholar Gets New Position PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 February 2006
The Gaurdian reports: Even in these days of long-haul foreign holidays, Mongolia is off-limits for most travellers. Its capital, Ulan Bator, has steadfastly resisted the attractions of McDonald's and even now its most famous native is Genghis Khan, who was born the best part of 850 years ago. So it's a bit of a culture shock to find one of the world's leading authorities on Mongolian society tucked away among the imposing stained glass windows of King's College, Cambridge.

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During the Stalinist purges of the 1930's almost every monastery in Mongolia was destroyed. In 1979 an atlas was published in Ulaanbaatar by Mr. Rinchen with an overview of more than 900 religious sites that used to exist in Mongolia. However a lot the information listed seems to be not accurate. A research has been initiated to get a better idea of all the buddhist buildings that once stood in Mongolia.