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  A Personal Reminiscence Captain J F Walsh (left) and Lieutenant N T Svensen (right) leading files of 'A' Company, 15th Battalion during a march through Melbourne, 17th December 1914 shortly before embarkation for the Great War Turkish front. Two children are in the right foreground. Major Nikolai Theodor Svensen (1878-1966)  You may like to glance through this personal reminiscence of mine on a day of immortal memories https://gallipoliviking.blogspot.com/ 

The grave of Janusz Olejniczak, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw  (Mid photograph) The grave of Janusz Olejniczak, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw The musical nation of Poland is in deep shock this morning at the unexpected death of the great Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak. His death is a profound loss to Polish culture and a visionary interpretation of Chopin. A towering musician, idiomatic Chopinist and deep human being. On Polish Radio 2 this afternoon (November 1st 2024) at 14.00 there is a  Janusz Olejniczak In Memoriam concert  hosted by Andrzej Sułek There is a sense of symbolic immanence and transcendence in his death that took place a mere three days after we had commemorated at the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, the 175th anniversary of Chopin's death in Paris at two in the morning on 17 October 1849.  I was unable to attend the funeral but came to  Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw this morning, the next day (October 30th), to pay my respects to this great a...

Portrait of Władysław Vasa 1595-1648, son of King Sigismund III of Poland, 1596 by The Polish Renaissance artist Martin Kober  (1550-1598) 20th International Chopin and his Europe Music Festival   17th August – 8th September 2024 Introduction, Programme and Reviewer's Notebook http://www.michael-moran.com/2024/08/chopin-and-his-europe-and-rest-of-world.html Reviewer:   https://gravatar.com/mjcmoran?utm_source=hovercard  FESTIVAL PROGRAMME https://festiwal.nifc.pl/en/2024/kalendarium/ The Polish Musical Renaissance  in  Modern Times In March 1946, Winston Churchill delivered an observation in musical, rotund tones: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. The seemingly impossible dream of the independence of Poland as a sovereign nation and accession to the European Union has actually ...