If counted well the Germans today can/could watch Dinner for One (The 90th Birthday) 13 times at different times on various TV-channels, and apart from the original in various German dialects, inclusive Schwiizerdütsch (Swiss German). Very strange folks, the Germans. Well, judge for yourself.
Tiny tip-off: Be absolutely determined not to laugh.
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| È un modo comodo di vivere quello di credersi grande di una grandezza latente. * It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. |
Cecilia Bartoli *4 June 1966
Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741)
Il Giardino Armonico
Conductor and flautino soloist:
Giovanni Antonini *1965
Concert Master and Violin:
Enrico Onofri * 1 April 1967
Lute:
Luca Pianca *1958
Oboe:
Maria Grazia d'Alessio
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)
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| “If curses came from the heart, it would be a sin. But if it is from the lips they come, and we use them only to give force to our speech, they are a great relief to the heart.” |
Peig Sayers (1873 – 8 December 1958)
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| Non sopporto più le persone che mi annoiano anche pochissimo, che mi fanno perdere anche un solo secondo di vita. * I can no longer stand people who bore me even a little, who make me lose even a second of my life. |
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| "All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture." |
