Nowości

The Warsaw water tower undergoes renovation

Maacha Deubner's new CD on Austrian Radio Ö1 (ORF)

There is a unique opportunity to listen to “our star” Maacha Deubner on podcast of Austrian Radio Ö1 (ORF). Maacha presents  her last CD  "Bessonnitsa /Insomnia - A Mandelstam Album" composed of chamber music by Elena Firsova, Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov and Valentin Silvestrov. The radio program includes also master pieces of W.A. Mozart, Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov, Gustav Mahler.

Maacha Deubner, soprano

"The voice of Maacha Deubner is a revelation in and of itself."

follow Maacha Deubner on:

Maacha Deubner - Soprano - Official website (maacha-deubner.com)

Maacha worked on CD together with Tatjana Frumkis, a composer, born and educated in Tallin (Estonia), living last 30 years in Berlin. Maacha Deubner and Tatjana Frumkis give also interviews on their musical inspirations.

Take a listen and enjoy.  

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20220423/675925/Maacha-Deubner-Tatjana-Frumkis

***

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, a Russian and Soviet poet,  born on 14 January 1891 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy Polish family. Soon after Osip's birth, they moved to Saint Petersburg. In 1907 his first poems were printed in 1907 in the school's almanac. In April 1908, Mandelstam decided to enter the Sorbonne in Paris to study literature and philosophy, but he left the following year to attend the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1911, he decided to continue his education at the University of Saint Petersburg, from which Jews were excluded. He converted to Methodism and entered the university the same year. He did not complete a formal degree.

Mandelstam's poetry, acutely populist in spirit after the first Russian revolution in 1905, became closely associated with symbolist imagery. In 1911, he and several other young Russian poets formed the "Poets' Guild", under the formal leadership of Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky. The nucleus of this group became known as Acmeists. Mandelstam wrote the manifesto for the new movement: The Morning Of Acmeism (1913, published in 1919).[8] In 1913 he published his first collection of poems, The Stone; it was reissued in 1916 under the same title, but with additional poems included.

Osip Mandelshtam was arrested during the repression of the 1930s and sent with his wife into internal exile to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to five years in a corrective-labour camp in the Soviet Far East. He died that year at a transit camp near Vladivostok.

William Lindley the hero of street art in Bergedorf!

Let us just remind here that Bergedorf or Hamburg-Bergedorf is a part of the city of Hamburg, from April 1, 1938 included in the borders of Big Hamburg. The commissioning in 1842 of the railroad linking this small town with the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg began William Lindley's great European career.

The joint stock company for culture and history of Bergedorf-South (Kultur-und Geschichts-AG Bergedorf-Süd) was aware of the dubious beauty of distribution boxes supplying electricity to apartments and industrial facilities and decided to campaign for their artistic redesign.

At the end of 2017, these previously gray, inconspicuous or heavily soiled energy distributors were renovated by the Hamburg artist Vincent Schulze, who for several years has been specializing in urban art and creating high-quality wall graphics and decoration of the facades of German city buildings, murals and a serie of works full of illusion scenes. He uses a variety of colored sprays for these purposes.

The audience liked Schultze's graphics and the author was invited to the second stage of the project. In 2018, new historical themes were selected, referring to the history of the place. Along the Rector-Ritter-Straße, paintings were created showing the images of William Lindley, the architect of Hamburg Alexis de Chateauneuf, or other figures important to the city. An image of one Lindley-related object was also created - a wooden railway station of his design, which has survived to this day. 

Journalist Heidi vom Lande recalled these artistic objects in the context of the covid-19 epidemic. “Graffiti is legal in Bergedorf-Süd! Get out in the fresh air and admire the street art! " - she called on the inhabitants of the district to the recreational activity.

To see more click here: 

Zobacz: http://www.08schulzedesign.de/start.html

 https://develop.heidivomlande.de/2018/11/27/die-schoensten-graffiti-verteilerkaesten-in-bergedorf-sued-sprayer-durfte-erneut-ran/#more-20697342

Photograph of  W. Lindley's painting by Bernd Carstensen, https://www.flickr.com/photos/161366249@N02/49526820036/

Happy Holiday!

• To all our friends:
• Warmest greetings of the season and many good wishes for the New Year 2022!
  
• Societas Lindleiana
• 
  

New find in Warsaw - two commemorative plaques of W.H. Lindley sewerage works in 1906

In October 2021, Marek Smółka, spokesman of Water Supply Company, informed the inhabitants of Warsaw about an interesting find. In the Praga collector chamber under Jagiellońska Street, at the intersection with ul. I. Kłopotowski, two commemorative plaques in Polish and Russian were found. The inscription on them, which is difficult to read due to the passage of time, reads: "The stone laid by the acting mayor of Warsaw, W. Litwiński, to commemorate the commencement of sewage works in the suburbs of Praga on October 20, 1906, according to the design and under the supervision of engineer W.H. Lindley ".

Two plaques, in Russian (left) and Polish