Saturday, November 13, 2010

Another loss.



We went in search of eggplant for dinner tonight but after visiting 3 stores found none and so stopped on the was home to buy kiełbasa Dziadkowa.  It's my favorite kind now since I was told about this shop that sells good kiełbasa.  I only bought two links, don't want to have so much that it can't be eaten in a few days and since it's made daily it's easy to replace what's eaten.

In general, it was a gray day with rain but not too chilly, 15c.  22c and sunny today in Malaga :-)

Yesterday Poland lost one of it's most famous contemporary composers.  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010), he was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His  works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Krzysztof Penderecki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid 1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the hugely popular Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).

1 comment:

  1. See my friend's blog at http://pacificrimphotography.blogspot.com/ for November 12. You will be amazed as I was to see the same topic from two sides of the world.

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