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If someone had asked me and my friends in the years 1990-2000 when and where we would have liked to live, one of the options would have been the years 1960 – ’70, in California, in full Hippie motion, for walks through San Francisco with flowers in our hair, for Monterey and Woodstock, to see […]
According to the Chinese calendar, the year 2021 is that of the Metal Ox. For Europeans, cattle, for example the ox, could have negative connotations, although it is not mandatory. Let’s remember the famous ox head from the coat of arms of the Principality of Moldova, which symbolizes power, being associated with the sun, moon […]
Line of Duty is a police television series produced by the BBC over several seasons, which began in 2012. I borrowed this title in a playful, postmodern context. In fact, the duty that Nomen Est Omen has assumed is to promote medieval music, not to reduce crime. Our means are, in fact, exclusively cultural. We […]
The next picture, which was taken by our colleague Valentin Florea in the Council Tower in Sibiu, represents from a visual point of view both a composition in red and black developed along a central axis of symmetry, as well as a collective portrait. The image was selected for a future photographic exhibition made by […]
One of the important choices that the musician has to make in the years of his formation is that between celebrity and value (acquired through study and recognized at most at the level of cultural niche), in other words, between the philharmonic and the “red carpet”, to make an analogy with the Oscars. Although the […]
After a summer with a lot of sun, the return to the rehearsal room is the ideal catalyst for the release of positive energy, especially if the songs performed are jumpy, or at least cheerful. The next image captures a moment in Packington’s Pound, rhythmically and vocally, as an exercise in breathing and balance. Not […]
Before they became museum objectives, the walls of the castles must have housed a lot of parties, in which wine, hunting, dancing and music certainly played major roles. Without pretending that we have been there since then, we feel good to continue, under the aegis of Nomen Est Omen, the good tradition of medieval holidays […]