November 23, 2024 4:39 pm

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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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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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 …

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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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ROUTE 66 / EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND SEE IN OKLAHOMA

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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OKLAHOMA MUSIC SONG AND DANCE

Ermineskin Grand Entry Pow Wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w17qY4x0YI4 Carlos Nakai: Earth Spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nm5_nAwQg Best Country Music Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIMzLgA2Z50 Oklahoma Country Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFd4BwdI6mA

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH – Novel by John Steinbeck

He was born in Salinas, California, on February day, 1902. Attended Stanford University without graduating (and though he lived briefly in New York), John Steinbeck remained a lifelong Californian. He began writing novels in 1929, and frequently used his fiction to delve into the lives of society’s most downtrodden citizens. A trio of novels in the late 1930s focused on …

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