January 7, 2025 10:53 pm

Meeting Bench

ELEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE PAINTER – The complex relationship between the sexes

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POLISH INNER LANDSCAPES

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FOUR SHADES OF POLISH MUSIC

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

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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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SELECTED POLISH POEMS

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, …

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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 …

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PARMIGIANINO (1503/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER – Developing the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style

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PARMA INNER LANDSCAPES

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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 …

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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 …

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