Polish folkloric music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GqbIPP-g8 New Polish Sounds / My Darling Angel Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzVeJ2LCkg Myslovitz / Sound Of Solitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmbuDD2hEE Warsaw Village Band / In the forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxlQyr0210
Read More »THE PEASANTS – Romance by Władysław Reymont
He was a Polish novelist (and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature). His best-known work, is the award-winning four-volume novel The Peasants. He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko. His mother, had a talent for story-telling. Władysław Reymont spent his childhood near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work …
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ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO – Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Life, you’re beautiful (I say), you just couldn’t get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaily, more anthillful or sproutspouting. I’m trying to court life’s favor, to get into its good graces, to anticipate its whims. I’m always the first to bow, always there where it can see me, with my humble, …
Read More »TWELVE ISLANDS, IN A PALETTE OF EMOTIONS – Wroclaw, the Venice of the North
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »PARMIGIANINO (1503/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER – Developing the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style
PARMA INNER LANDSCAPES
LYRIC OPERA AND ROMANCE – Giuseppe Verdi, the pride of a farmer, on the stages of the world
He was born in Roncole of Busseto, near Parma, on a day in October of 1813, and would become the author of many dramas, which are part of the repertoire of theaters worldwide. Giuseppe Verdi is a composer always looking for new players, which inspire their works, also attending Paris (the artistic capital of Europe in those years). His operas …
Read More »LOVES, GULLS AND STREAMS – Attilio Bertolucci Poems
He began to write poetry since he was very young, when he was no more than seven years. In ’28 Attilio Bertolucci collaborated in the Gazzetta di Parma. He is born on November day, 1911 near Parma. In ’31 he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Parma. In ’33 was a lifelong companion, Ninetta Giovanardi, and he published the …
Read More »BEAUTIFUL TO SEE, SWEET TO TASTE – Travel in Parma / Italy, discovering the magic of two thousand years of history, enclosed in a casket
Among the most beautiful university cities of Italy, Parma is the most charming. http://www.turismo.comune.parma.it/en?set_language=en Sweet and friendly, beside a river, in the heart of the countryside among churches and domes, churches and fortified walls, palaces, villas, theaters and parks. In this city you eat well, very, very good! That we remember, we starting our city tour. The first stage is …
Read More »EXPLORING THE WEST, NIGHT AND DAY, WITH BRUSH AND COLOR – The extraordinary creative metamorphosis of Frederic Remington
FREDERIC REMINGTON 1/3 – He was an American painter and writer, who specialized in depictions of the Old American West (specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry). He was born in Canton, New York, and Remington’s father was a colonel in the Civil War (whose …
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