Monday, March 3, 2014

Osmica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Osmica - "Located on the pedestrian street that runs parallel to Čopova, Osmica is essentially the pizza annex of the longer-running Allegria in the courtyard around the corner. The menu boasts over two dozen pizzas, and several choice of salad, lasagna and tortillas are also on offer in the comfortable rustic setting - think lots of wood and exposed stone with an open kitchen. We stop by for lunch or grab a pizza to go on the way home quite often, but if we were forced to choose a favourite it'd have to be the Tartufo, which comes heaped with prosciutto, salami, parmesan and of course truffle oil." - by InYourPocket

Aleksandar Marković - Serbian conductor, living in Vienna | just found out about TED at this lunch, where we were actually speaking in Serbian language, me being a diminishing minority of Slovenians who know how to | born and raised in Zemun, knows very well Šatrovački, just like Gregor, | not realted to most famous Marković, once prime minister of ex-Yugoslavia Ante | His father was Vlada from famous Vlada i Bajka band, Yugoslav answer to Simon and Garfunkel | in early 90's went to USA, intended to stay for a month and a half in music summer camp in North Carolina, then stayed on in Washington and Miamo, studied piano and returned to Vienna, drawn by German language, influenced by Wagner | Vienna was also a natural choice for conducting study, Music Director of Brno Philharmonic, prior to that also in Innsbruck | worked with Ana Šinkovec and Slovenian Philharmonic in 2004 | regularly switches from head to body by sport activities, aesthetics in general is of big importance, tennis on hold due to conducting inflammation, read book by David Deida: Finding God Through Sex | With infinite resources he would stay in music, but would be more selective and picky, maybe taking over Monaco Philharmonic or somewhere else on Mediterranean coast. With top world class plus also top candidates and talents in academia - not unlike Qatar, but location is of utmost importance, due to audience for which everything is done in the first place.

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