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Sonia Engström

@sonicsonia.bsky.social

• Swede living in Kraków previously Lviv • Runs viewpoint-east.org • focus on everything about Ukraine 🇺🇦, Jewish heritage in CEE, classical music. • Mahlerian 🎶

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The pieces musicians love and HATE to play (one composer comes up A LOT) Which works do orchestral players love to play? Or dread? We asked some of Europe’s finest ensembles for musicians favourite pieces

This is possibly the most intriguing list I ever read!

/best regards from an incurable nerd

www.classical-music.com/features/wor...

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"there is" 🤦

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Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (Full)
YouTube video by BLOP888 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (Full)

Whatever happens, there are always Gustav Mahler

youtu.be/kQZ51udFtrg?...

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Det är faktiskt nästan sant. Min mamma till exempel bor på blomstergatorna

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Born #OTD 1915, Antonia Bruha began writing poetry at 18 for "Vídeňské dělnické listy" under the pseudonym "Tanja Spatová". Arrested for resistance activity and her baby daughter taken as leverage, Bruha escaped the death march from Ravensbrück.
www.ravensbrueckerin...

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Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt

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Portrait of Frédéric Chopin by Maria Wodzińska (1836)

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin by Maria Wodzińska (1836)

Frédéric Chopin was born OTD in 1810. Selecting a top ten was not an easy task, but waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas, études and more are all represented...
bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

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I would say this looks like almost any tourist group in Kraków. No matter if it's Britts, Norwegians, Swedes (I often feel ashamed of my fellow country men), Spaniards etc. Only French and Italians are pretty ok

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Every time a Moscow-allied dictator leaves the stage to the deafening silence of impotent Russians, the world realizes that the so-called "Russian power" is nothing but a Potemkin village.

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At least Napoleon was a (mostly) competent military commander.

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Läser en svensk-iraniers kommentar på FB. Känner hur håret reser sig när hen skriver: "att Israel finns som stat är ett hot mot hela världsfreden".

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#paintings #art

Signs of Spring 🌼🎨Dee Nickerson

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🇺🇸😳 For the first time since the 1930s, more people left the U.S. than moved in, - WSJ

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"a majority of Poles (55%) said they did not know who Keir Starmer is" 😆

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Loved my friend and colleague Anna Chikovani’s photo from today’s protest commemorating 105 years since the Soviet Russian occupation of Georgia.

Her expression is so firm, determined, concerned and calm at the same time.

Day 455 of #GeorgiaProtests

📷 MOSE

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Keith Kellog: ‘A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not four years of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal-it is war.’ US joins Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Uzbekistan and Serbia amongst others.

Keith Kellog: ‘A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not four years of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal-it is war.’ US joins Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Uzbekistan and Serbia amongst others.

Keith Kellog: A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not four years of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal-it is war.

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Emilie Mayer and symphonic audacity in the 19th century In the heart of the romantic 19th century, when symphonies remained an almost exclusively male domain, a German composer made her mark with boldness and determination: Emilie Mayer.

Emilie Mayer and symphonic audacity in the 19th century

In the heart of the romantic 19th century, when symphonies remained an almost exclusively male domain, a German composer made her mark with boldness and determination: Emilie Mayer.

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Four years of fire—and Ukraine is still standing.
From Zmiinyi Island to today, the message hasn’t changed. Thank you to everyone helping shield Ukraine's sky and save lives.

Donate to air defence via @u24.gov.ua

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In Kyiv for the tenth time since the start of the war.

To reaffirm that Europe stands unwaveringly with Ukraine, financially, militarily, and through this harsh winter.

To underscore our enduring commitment to Ukraine’s just fight.

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Adding to this set of #womencomposers
Boulanger
Soper
Gubaidulina
Thorvaldsdottir
Bauckholt
Ustvolskaya
Buczek
Saariaho
Kitamura
Raine
Borcherding
Czernowin
Temple
Lamb

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Det gäller också text

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Jag hör L:s partiledare säga i Agenda att tonåringar ska få uppehållstillstånd tills de fyller 21 år. Då ska det kunna ansöka om eget uppehållstillstånd på arbetsmarknadsskäl. Vilken 21-åring får ett jobb med månadslön på 33 390 kr? (90 % av medianlön 2024)

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