POLISH INNER LANDSCAPES
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
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 …
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