Danas, (Данас) Serbian for today is a daily newspaper published in Serbia.

Danas was established in mid-1997 after a group of discontented journalists from the Naša borba newspaper walked out after getting into a conflict with the paper's new private majority owner.[1] The first issue of Danas appeared on June 9, 1997.

Right from the start the paper employed a strong independent editorial policy with respect to Milosevic's regime. Because of open reporting and uncensored coverage on issues and events plaguing Yugoslav and Serbian society in the late 1990s, the paper often found itself targeted by Serbian authorities.

Danas was one of the three newspapers (Dnevni telegraf and Naša borba being the other two) to be banned by governmental decree on October 14, 1998 for "spreading fear and defeatism" at a time when NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia seemed a distinct possibility. As the threat of bombing went away (for a few months anyway), the ban was lifted on October 20, 1998, only to be replaced by a piece of legislation called the Information Law.

Under that law, Danas was fined severely and on numerous occasions. The paper's day-to-day operations were often under threat of shutting down until the regime was finally overthrown on October the 5th.

In the period since the regime change, Danas has been one of the rare Serbian newspapers (or Serbian media outlets in general, for that matter) to ignore the commercial temptations of yellow journalism. Its circulation has been continually in decline. Most of the foreign investors in Serbian media market have been avoiding it.

Today, Danas is a left-oriented media, promoting issues related to former Yugoslavia, social-democracy and European integrations. It is among rare media supporters of Serbian NGO activities towards human rights and minorities protection.

The paper is published and managed by an entity called Dan Graf d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Belgrade. The company's ownership is shared by 13 individuals: Grujica Spasović (13.39%), Dušan Mitrović (13.39%), Radomir Ličina (11.83%), Zdravko Huber (10.94%), Milan Jauković (9.82%), Vesna Ninković (9.03%), Radivoj Cvetićanin (7.19%), Aleksandar Nikašinović (5.46%), etc...[2]

Editorial history[link]

List of people who performed the editor-in-chief duties at Danas:

• Zoran Panović ? - present
• Mihal Ramač March 2006 - ?
• Grujica Spasović
• Veseljko Koprivica

See also[link]

• Republika
• Glas javnosti

External links[link]

• Official website
• Danas

Dino Merlin
Background information
Birth name	Edin Dervišhalidović
Also known as	Dino Merlin
Born	(1962-09-12) 12 September 1962 (age 49)
Origin	Sarajevo,  Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia[1]
Genres	Pop rock
Years active	1983–present
Associated acts	Merlin
Website	http://www.dinomerlin.net http://www.dinomerlin.com

Edin Dervišhalidović (pronounced [ědin derʋiʃxaːlǐdoʋitɕ]; born 12 September 1962), stage name Dino Merlin, pronounced [dǐːno měrlin], is a prominent Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a popular singer/songwriter in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also popular in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia such as Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia.^[2]

Music career[link]

Merlin Band[link]

Edin Dervišhalidović founded the band Merlin in 1983 and has been its singer and songwriter since. With the band, he has recorded 5 studio albums: Kokuzna vremena in 1985, Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe) in 1986, Merlin in 1987, Nešto lijepo treba da se desi in 1989, and Peta strana svijeta in 1990.

Solo career[link]

Dervišhalidović began his solo career under the name Dino Merlin in 1991, and recorded five studio albums: Moja bogda sna in 1993, Fotografija in 1995, Sredinom in 2000, Burek in 2004, Ispočetka in 2008 and 2 live albums, Vječna vatra in 1999 and Live Koševo 2004 in 2005.

Dino Merlin wrote the first national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina called Jedna si, jedina.^{[citation needed]} He has also taken part in Eurovision Song Contests, in Millstreet in 1993 (Dino is the author of Sva bol svijeta) and in Jerusalem in 1999 (singing Putnici with Béatrice, a French singer). Dino Merlin has also taken part in other big European festivals, such as Copenhagen in 1996 and Turkovision in 1997.^{[citation needed]} His tour promoting his Sredinom album, which was released in 2000, included over 200 concerts, with a spectacular performance at the Koševo Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo, in front of an audience of about 80,000.^{[citation needed]} The Sredinom-album was the top-selling album in Bosnia and Herzegovina and sold in all of the countries that were once part of Yugoslavia.^{[citation needed]}

Dino Merlin's next album, Burek, was released in 2004. Three songs were featured as singles: Burek, Supermen and Ako Nastaviš Ovako. The album includes 15 tracks, many of which are new. The song Supermen is sung by Dino Merlin with a guest appearance by Željko Joksimović, who is also the composer of the song.

Many of the songs on this album have also appeared on his Live Koševo 2004 album released in 2005. The other guest appearances on the Burek album include Nina Badrić on "Ti si mene", Željko Joksimović on "Supermen" and Edo Zanki on "Verletzt" and many others.

Dino Merlin's tenth album titled Ispočetka (English Translation: From the Beginning) was released in 2008.

On 1 December 2010 it was revealed that Merlin will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany.^[3][4] He came sixth in the final singing Love in Rewind.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

with Merlin band[link]

• Kokuzna vremena (1985)
• Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe) (1986)
• Merlin (1987)
• Nešto lijepo treba da se desi (1989)
• Peta strana svijeta (1990)

Solo career[link]

• Moja bogda sna (1993)
• Fotografija (1995)
• Live: Vječna vatra (1999)
• Sredinom (2000)
• Burek (2004)
• Live Koševo 2004 (2005)
• Ispočetka (2008)

Compilations[link]

• Merlin (1990) - with the Merlin band
• Balade (1995) - with the Merlin band
• Rest of the Best (1995) - with the Merlin band
• Najljepše pjesme (1995) - with the Merlin band
• The Best of Dino Merlin (2001)
• The Platinum Collection (2006)
• The Ultimate Collection (2009)

DVDs[link]

• Live Koševo (2005)
• Koševo 19. Juli (2009)

Singles[link]

• 2007: "Otkrit ću ti tajnu"
• 2008: "Dabogda"
• 2008: "Da šutiš (Indigo)"
• 2008; "Deset Mlađa"
• 2009: "Nedostaješ"
• 2011: "Love in Rewind"

Songs produced by Dino Merlin[link]

Sampled Song[link]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dino Merlin

External links[link]

• Official Website

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Ghostbusters.

Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.

Early life[link]

Bernstein was born in New York City, the son of Selma (née Feinstein) and Edward Bernstein.^[1] He was not related to the celebrated composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, but the two men were friends, and even shared a certain physical similarity.^[2] Within the world of professional music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames Bernstein West (Elmer) and Bernstein East (Leonard).^[3]

During his childhood, Bernstein performed professionally as a dancer and an actor, in the latter case playing the part of Caliban in The Tempest on Broadway, and he also won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard teacher who guided him throughout his entire career as a pianist. She took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland, who was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy.^[4] Bernstein's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland's music, most notably in his western scores, particularly sections of Big Jake, in the Gregory Peck film Amazing Grace and Chuck, and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's novel God's Little Acre.

Throughout his life, Bernstein demonstrated an enthusiasm for an even wider spectrum of the arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him lessons in writing fiction.

Career[link]

Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials.^[4] His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.

Broadway[link]

In addition to his film music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals, How Now, Dow Jones, with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, in 1967 and Merlin, with lyricist Don Black, in 1983.^[5]

Politics[link]

Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. He was "gray-listed" (not banned, but kept off major projects) due to sympathy with left-wing causes, and had to work on low-budget science fiction films such as Robot Monster and Cat-Women of the Moon.^[4]

Comedies[link]

John Landis grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children. Years later, he requested Bernstein do the music for National Lampoon's Animal House, over the studio's objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernstein's score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, would emphasize the comedy further. The opening theme to the movie is based upon a slight inversion of a secondary theme from Brahms' Academic Festival Overture. Bernstein accepted the job, and it sparked a second wave in his career, where he continued to do high-profile comedies such as The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Stripes, and Airplane!, as well as most of Landis's films for the next 15 years.

[edit] Cape Fear

When Martin Scorsese announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, Bernstein adapted Bernard Herrmann's original score to the new film. Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, and to pay homage to Herrmann. Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films, 1993's The Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Bernstein had previously conducted Herrman's original unused score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1966 Torn Curtain.^[6]

Classical[link]

Having studied composition under Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe, Bernstein also performed as a concert pianist between 1939 and 1950 and wrote numerous classical compositions, including three orchestral suites, two song cycles, various compositions for viola and piano and for solo piano, and a string quartet. As president of the Young Musicians Foundation, Bernstein became acquainted with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening and wrote a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which Parkening recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernstein's baton for the Angel label in 1999. In addition, Bernstein was a professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.^[7]

Awards[link]

Over the course of his career, Bernstein won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.^[8] In addition, he was nominated for the Tony Award three times^[5] and a Grammy Award five times.

He received 14 Academy Award nominations and was nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s until the 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie for Best Original Music Score. Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and Hawaii. In 1963, he won the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of the documentary The Making of The President 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Hallelujah Trail (1965).^[8]

He received five Grammy Award nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and garnered two Tony Award nominations for the Broadway musicals How Now Dow Jones and Merlin.

Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America.

In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard.^[9] In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001^[9] and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004.

His scores for The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird were ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth and seventeenth greatest American film scores of all time, respectively, on the list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and Jerry Goldsmith are the only composers to have two scores listed, and are therefore in second place for the most scores on the list, behind John Williams, who has three. Other Bernstein scores for the following the films were nominated for the list:

• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• Hawaii (1966)
• The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
• Summer and Smoke (1961)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

Death[link]

Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep at his home in Ojai, California, on August 18, 2004.^[10]

Filmography[link]

Broadway theatre[link]

• Peter Pan (1954) - Incidental music composer
• How Now, Dow Jones (1967) - Composer - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Musical, Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist
• Merlin (1982) - Composer and Incidental music composer - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Official website
• Elmer Bernstein at the Internet Movie Database
• Elmer Bernstein at the Internet Broadway Database
• Elmer Bernstein at the TCM Movie Database
• SWF movie with soundtracks
• Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks
• Fan website
• BernsteinWest.com
• Meatballs Movie Website

Josipa Lisac
Background information
Birth name	Josipa Lisac
Born	(1950-02-14) 14 February 1950 (age 62)
Origin	Zagreb, Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia)
Genres	Pop, rock, funk, jazz
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1968–present
Associated acts	Zlatni akordi, Karlo Metikoš
Website	www.josipalisac.com

Josipa Lisac (Croatian pronunciation: [jɔ̌sipa lǐːsat͡s]) (born February 14, 1950 in Zagreb, then PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia, now Croatia) is an eminent female singer.

Biography[link]

During the 1960s she was a vocalist of the group named Zlatni Akordi. Her first solo album, recorded in 1973, Dnevnik jedne ljubavi (Diary of one love) was a huge success and is until today one of the most legendary albums in Croatia.

She had a lot of big rock hits, but she also sang Bosnian Sevdah songs (Omer beže) and Croatian Christmas songs. Beside being a top act of the Croatian popular music, she was also highly acclaimed in the former Yugoslav rock scene. She is known for her strong voice and unique sense of fashion.

Discography[link]

• Dnevnik jedne ljubavi (1973) (Diary of a love)
• Najveći uspjesi '68./ '73. (1974) (Greatest hits 68 - 73)
• Gubec-Beg (1975, Rockopera from Karlo Metikoš and Ivica Krajač)
• Josipa Lisac & B.P. Convention Big Band International (1976)
• Made in USA (1979)
• Hir, hir, hir (1980) (Whim, whim, whim)
• Lisica (1982) (Vixen)
• Hoću samo tebe (1983) (I want only you)
• Boginja (1987) (Goddess)
• Balade (1987) (Ballads)
• Live in Lap (1991)
• Čestit Božić (1992) (Merry Christmas)
• Ritam kiše (1993) (Rhythm of the rain)
• Koncert u čast Karla Metikoša (1995) (Concert in honour of Karlo Metikoš)
• Antologija (Vol. I. - VIII.) (1997)
• The Best of (1998)
• Život (2000) (Life)
• Live (2000)
• Live in concert (2002)
• Koncert ljubavi u čast Karla Metikoša - DVD(2007)
• Živim po svome (2009) (I live my way)

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Josipa Lisac Bio at Croatia Records Official Site (Croatian)
• Review for Koncert ljubavi u čast Karla Metikoša DVD
• Review for Zivim po svome album

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