Fabio Colombo
Category : (table-)tennisDocs , CarDoc , ChessDocs , CollectorDocs , RunningDocs , travelDocs , WriterDocs
Fabio is a Multi-Talent!
Fabio Colombo
- 2025-04-18
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- 2025-04-14
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Andrea Terenzi
Category : PianoDocs
Andrea Terenzi is dentist from Rome and he has participated in amateur piano competitions
- 2025-04-03
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DVD Country of the Dead | Annamaria Habermann
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DVD Country of the Dead | Annamaria Habermann
“Terra di morti” [Country of the Dead] is the film that will be screened today (Friday) at 6 pm at the Spazio Festival in Piazza San Giovanni, in the presence of the author and protagonist
While waiting for the start of the twelfth edition of the BAFilm Festival, on Friday 28 March at 6 pm, the festival space in Piazza San Giovanni will host the screening of the film Terra di morti, based on the book Il labirinto di carta (www.proedieditore.it) by Anna Maria Hábermann. The event will be presented by the journalist from La Prealpina Angela Grassi. The underlying theme of the film – which unfolds between Italy and Hungary – is the search for the truth about the fate of the paternal family of the protagonist, the narrator of the feature film. Through original documents and photographs, current images of the places where the events took place and meetings with various witnesses, the film gradually leads the viewer to discover where Anna Maria’s paternal grandparents lived, their tragic story and that of her brother Tamás, who disappeared in ’44 together with the entire Hungarian family.
The protagonist questions above all the silence that has surrounded her since childhood: from the shocking truth about the Jewish origins of her father’s family, to the existence of Tamás, an unknown brother born from a previous marriage of her father. The most emotional moments of the film take place in Hungary, in Baja, where Tamás lived entrusted to his maternal grandmother, after his parents’ divorce sanctioned by the court in 1938. These moments are marked by Anna Maria’s meetings with Tamás’s friends who speak of him with affection, describing his personality and intelligence, illuminating – with some anecdotes – his young life full of interests, thus allowing his sister to make peace with her parents’ silence, which isolated her from a reality too painful to be faced. The story of Anna Maria Hábermann is well-known in Busto Arsizio: even recently, on March 6, on the occasion of the European Day of the Righteous, the municipal administration, the Friends of the Civic Temple and the Busto Arsizio hospital company dedicated a plaque to Dr. Aladar Hábermann, Anna Maria’s father, for the generosity with which he carried out his medical activity and for having saved dozens of people wanted by the Nazi-fascists.
Film profile
Land of the Dead (HOLTAK ORSZÁGA) 2010, Hungary (56’).
Directed by: Sándor Lázs and Róbert Kollár
The film was presented at the following festivals:
Hungary: Budapest Filmszemle 2011 / finalist in the documentary section (5-8 May 2011);
Trieste: Adria film festival 2012 / special event for the day of remembrance on 25 January 2012.
Cast: Anna Maria Hábermann, Imre Tax, Emöke Domsky, Adriano Bernocchi Crespi, Katalin Bakos, Magdi Mayer, Father Keve.
Soundtrack: Anna Maria Hábermann performs Chopin study op 25 n.1/op 10 n.3 / Beethoven sonata op
- 2025-04-02
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Ulisse Aldrovandi
Category : AdvocateDocs , biologyDocs , BotanicDocs , managerDocs , philosophyDocs
Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna’s botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi.
Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to Teseo Aldrovandi and his wife, a noble but poor family. His father was a lawyer, and Secretary to the Senate of Bologna, but died when Ulisse was seven years old. His widowed mother wanted him to become a jurist. Initially he was sent to apprentice with merchants as a scribe for a short time when he was 14 years old, but after studying mathematics, Latin, law, and philosophy, initially at the University of Bologna, and then at the University of Padua in 1545, he became a notary. His interests successively extended to philosophy and logic, which he combined with the study of medicine.[1]
In June 1549, Aldrovandi was accused and arrested for heresy on account of his espousing of the anti-trinitarian beliefs of the Anabaptist Camillo Renato. By September, he publicly abjured, but was nevertheless transferred to Rome, and remained in custody or house arrest until absolved in April, 1550. During this time, he befriended many local scholars. While in light captivity there, he became more and more interested in botany, zoology, and geology (he is credited for the invention/first written record of this word[2]). From 1551 onward, he organized a variety of expeditions to the Italian mountains, countryside, islands, and coasts to collect and catalogue plants.
He obtained a degree in medicine and philosophy in 1553 and started teaching logic and philosophy in 1554 at the University of Bologna. In 1559, he became professor of philosophy and in 1561 he became the first professor of natural sciences at Bologna (lectura philosophiae naturalis ordinaria de fossilibus, plantis et animalibus).[1] Aldrovandi was a friend of Francesco de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1574 – 1587), visiting his garden at Pratolino and travelling with him, compiling a list of the most valuable plants at Pratolino.[b] He also formed fruitful associations with botanical artists such as Jacopo Ligozzi, to further develop illustrated texts.[3] He died in Bologna on 4 May 1605, at the age of 82.
Aldrovandi’s wife Francesca Fontana was invaluable to his research. He utilized her dowry to build their massive country estate that ultimately included his natural history collection. She was a research partner who located texts for him to cite and use in his books, edited his books, and wrote sections of them as well. She wrote the preface for his posthumous book On the Remains of Bloodless Animals, which Suzanne Le-May Sheffield described as “their shared work”.[4]
Over the course of his life, he would assemble one of the most spectacular cabinets of curiosities: his “theatre” illuminating natural history comprising some 7000 specimens of the diversità di cose naturali, of which he wrote a description in 1595. Between 1551 and 1554, he organized several expeditions to collect plants for a herbarium, among the first botanizing expeditions. Eventually, his herbarium contained about 4760 dried specimens on 4117 sheets in sixteen volumes, preserved at the University of Bologna. He also had various artists including Jacopo Ligozzi, Giovanni Neri, and Cornelio Schwindt, compose illustrations of specimens.
At his demand and under his direction, a public botanic garden was created in Bologna in 1568, now the Orto Botanico dell’Università di Bologna.[5] Due to a dispute on the composition of a popular medicine with the pharmacists and doctors of Bologna in 1575, he was suspended from all public positions for five years. In 1577, he sought the aid of Pope Gregory XIII (a cousin of his mother), who wrote to the authorities of Bologna to reinstate Aldrovandi in his public offices and request financial aid to help him publish his books.
The Civico Orto Botanico “Ulisse Aldrovandi” in San Giovanni in Persiceto is named in his honor.
- 2025-03-28
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CD Two Wild Ducks
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CD Two Wild Ducks
Two Italian family doctors and a physiatrist playing "by distance" songs in the style of Sixties/Seventies Italian singer-songwriters
Band/artist history
The band was born in 2007, when Dr. Alfredo De Pietra (guitars, guitar synth, electric bass, home recordist) and Dr. Enzo Brizio (keyboards) decided to try to make real the crazy idea of playing together, even if more than 1000 kms divide them. Then Dr. Gianni Chetta was involved as vocalist.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
Almost impossible to play live, since we live far away each other several hundreds of kilometres…
Your musical influences
Enzo Brizio: classical music Gianni Chetta: James Taylor, Jussi Bjorling, Pino Daniele, Ella Fitzgerald Alfredo De Pietra: great guitar players, pop, jazz, Irish music and anything in between
- 2024-11-06
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Asclepios Ensemble
Category : OrchestraDocs
“Music is the best medicine for the soul,” Plato taught.
The orchestra of the Padua Hospital-University Company "Asclepio Ensemble" testifies that these words are still alive today, a couple of millennia later, in a world where medicine is increasingly technological but, unfortunately, perhaps also further from the soul .
The adventure of the Asclepio Ensemble began at Christmas 2012, when a group of medical musicians found themselves playing for the sick in a hospital ward in Padua. In March 2013, a small orchestra, composed of doctors from the Padua hospital and some medical students, conducted by the Maestro, participated for the first time in the traditional concert organized by the Order of Doctors of Padua ("Doctors in concert"). /Dr. Saller.
The idea of the latter is simple but ambitious: to give life to a structured musical reality, drawing from the mine of musical talents of the medical world.
As often happens, “fortuna audacis iuvat”: the initiative is an immense success, both among the organizers and among the public. The then General Director of the hospital, Dr. Claudio Dario decides to sponsor the initiative by offering the chapel of Santa Maria delle Nevi, inside the Giustinianeo hospital, as a rehearsal room.
Since that moment the Asclepio Ensemble has grown, becoming a real orchestral formation that has held numerous charity concerts in prestigious venues in Padua and its province, Treviso, Rome, alongside musical moments in the various departments dedicated to patients. Above all thanks to these initiatives, which are more important from a human than media point of view, the Asclepio Ensemble presents itself as a new tool for "doing health" and the symbol of a medicine that is not afraid of recovering its humanistic roots.
- 2022-08-15
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Guido Mazzoleni
Category : (water-)skiingDocs , ActorDocs , PianoDocs , wineDocs
A pathologist only examins corpses? Not at all! He judges good and bad if its a tumor. And he producces wine, plays the piano and performs as actor besides skiing – if his name is Guido Mazzoleni.
(IT): Nelle sue vene scorre sangue trentino e veneziano e non ha paura della noia. In futuro si dedicherà alla viticoltura, ha già comprato un tre ruote “Ape”, vivrà tra Bolzano e Trento, migliorerà il suo pianoforte. Ama il mare, lo sci e la sua bici da corsa, la musica e la sua casa circondata da viti sulla collina sopra Trento. Il Dr. Guido Mazzoleni, primario del reparto di Anatomia e Istologia Patologica dell’Ospedale Provinciale di Bolzano, andrà in pensione il 1° luglio.
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- 2022-08-14
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Christian Mongiardi
Category : PianoDocs
Christian Mongiardi (38) went viral when he played the piano in the foyer after a duty in his hospital in 2022….
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- 2022-07-24
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Giuseppe Sinopoli
Category : ArcheologyDocs , ComposerDocs , conductorDocs , NameGivingDocs , OrganDocs
Giuseppe Sinopoli (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe siˈnɔːpoli]; 2 November 1946 – 21 April 2001)[1] was an Italian conductor and composer.
Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen.[citation needed] He also obtained a degree in medicine from the University of Padua, and completed a dissertation on criminal anthropology.[2]
Sinopoli began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works, becoming professor of contemporary and electronic music at the Venice Conservatoire Benedetto Marcello in 1972, and a major proponent of the new movement in Venice for contemporary music. He studied conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music under Hans Swarowsky; and in Venice, founded the Bruno Maderna Ensemble in the 1970s. His single most famous composition is perhaps his opera Lou Salomé, which received its first production in Munich in 1981, with Karan Armstrong in the title role.[3]
Sinopoli was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984, and served in this position until 1994, making a number of recordings with them, including music by Elgar and the complete symphonies of Mahler.[4] Sinopoli was supposed to take over the position of chief conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1990. However, even before the start of his term he receded from his contract. He became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992. He also joined the Bayreuth Festival‘s roster of conductors. He is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss. Sinopoli specialized in late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century music, from Wagner and Verdi to Strauss, Mahler and the Second Viennese School. His conducting was the object of much controversy, especially in the symphonic genre, with some berating the “eccentricity” of his interpretations, while others praised the insightfulness of his often intellectual approach to works.
Every October since 2005, Taormina Arte has dedicated a festival to Giuseppe Sinopoli, the artistic director of the Music section of the Taormina Festival from 1989 to 1997. The Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival celebrates the man not only as a musician and as a conductor but also as a composer, a doctor, an archaeologist and intellectual, with a variety of events from music and literature, theatre and art to conferences, exhibitions, publications and concerts. Every year the Festival welcomes important orchestras to Italy.
On the occasion of the first edition of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra was formed, in collaboration with the Conservatorio “Arcangelo Corelli” of Messina. The Orchestra, made up of young talented musicians, both pupils and teachers of the Conservatorio, mostly performs works by Sinopoli.
Lou Salomé https://www.stretta-music.de/sinopoli-lou-salom-nr-778511.html
Uraufführung: 10. Mai 1981 an der Bayerischen Staatsoper, München
Komponist: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Libretto: Karl Dietrich Gräwe
Regie: Götz Friedrich
Musikalische Leitung: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Audio-CD (Auszüge, andere Einspielung):
Lou Salomé – Orchestersuiten
Rezensionen:
Bachmann, C.-H.: Trügerische Balance auf dem Hochseil der Oper. Guiseppe Sinopoli: Lou Salomé – Uraufführung in München, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 4, 1981, S. 382–384
Herbort, H. J.: Oper: Gedachte Musik. Lou Salomé in München, Aus Deutschland in Berlin, in: DIE ZEIT, Nr. 41, 1983
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https://venetiancat.blogspot.com/2012/01/lou-salome-at-la-fenice-and-il-giorno.html
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Alfredo De Pietra
Category : GuitarDocs , WriterDocs
Alfredo plays guitar and writes music articles in the magazine Keltica for many years.
Alfredo De Pietra was born in 1955 in Potenza, Italy. He now lives in Palermo, Sicily.
He began listening to Irish music in the mid-1970s. His first musical passions were The Chieftains and the Bothy Band.
Over the years, he expanded his knowledge of Celtic music, primarily listening to Celtic guitar music. In 2000, he launched a website dedicated to Celtic music https://digilander.libero.it/alfstone/keltika.htm, which is very popular among Italian Celtic music fans.
Since 2001, he has been one of the main authors of the monthly (published?) Italian CD magazine “Keltika,” for which he has written dozens of reviews, articles, and interviews with leading Celtic musicians from around the world.
Alfredo De Pietra is also a doctor specializing in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine and works as a general practitioner in Palermo, Sicily.
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