Lara's Theme...Played On Tyros 2!

My arrangement of Lara's theme...written by the French composer, and conductor Maurice Jarre. The pictures are of the state of California...Fort Ross, the town of Mendocino, and the Mendocino Headlands. They were taken in the "Spring" of 2005. Some history of Fort Ross.....The settlement of Ross, the name derived from the word for Russia (Rossiia) was established by the Russian - American Company, a commercial hunting and trading company chartered by the tsarist government, with shares held by the members of the Tsar's family, court nobility and high officials. Trade was vital to Russian outposts in Alaska, where long winters exhausted supplies and the settlements could not grow enough food to support themselves. Alexander Baranov, the Chief Manager of the Russian American Company, (RAC), in Sitka, Alaska...directed his chief deputy, Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov, to establish a colony in California as a food source for Alaska and to hunt profitable sea otters. After several reconnaissance missions, Kuskov arrived at Ross in March of 1812 with a party of 25 Russians, many of them craftsmen, and 80 native Alaskans from Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands. After negotiating with the Kashaya Pomo people who inhabited the area, Kuskov began construction of the fort. The carpenters who accompanied Kuskov to Settlement Ross, along with their native Alaskan helpers, had worked on forts in Alaska, and the construction here followed models of the traditional stockade, blockhouses and log buildings found in Siberia and Alaska. The Company holdings extended as far south as Bodega Bay, where Port Rumianstev at Bodega served as their main port. Over 200 hundred ships came through this port during active trading years. Most supplies and furs were kept in warehouses at Port Rumianstev. Other RAC holdings extended to inland areas where several farms were built up. Farallones Islands, west of San Francisco, was used as a hunting base for the Company. I hope that you enjoy my musical arrangement, and the photos! Please feel free to comment, and to rate the video...thanks!!!