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phoenix city

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

A long night. Fifty years of darkness. A solar eclipse from 1939 to 1989. Poland. A lot of psychological baggage from basically a landlocked nation surrounded, bartered and chatteled off by stronger powers. To rebuild must take place on many … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama Poland, Bernardo Bellotto, Bernardo Bellotto paintings, Claude Lanzmann, david axelrod, David Frum, Donald Tusk Poland, Jan Karski, Jerzy S. Majewski, Nazi destruction Warsaw, Radek Sikorski, Radoslaw Sikorski, Sophie's Choice, Warsaw Palace of Culture, Warsaw reconstruction after WWII | Leave a comment

chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Dave

For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann | Leave a comment

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