Ir.lv: From one microphone to Europe: LNSO’s 100-year story The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra is marking its centenary. Its predecessor, the Riga Radiophone Orchestra, began daily broadcasts on September 5, 1926 with just 14 musicians, exactly as many as its single microphone could pick up. The piece also traces the station’s own origins: parliament allocated 140,000 lats for […]
links: 14.06.2026
LSM: President Čakste’s daughter who feigned insanity in Siberia for her children’s sake. The story of Maiga Šīrone’s self-sacrifice Pianist Maiga Šīrone, a daughter of Latvia’s first president Jānis Čakste, was deported to Siberia with her two children in 1941. Realising that her children could only be sent home if she herself were declared legally incapacitated, she deliberately […]