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Carme Montoriol (Barcelona, 1892–1966) is a Spanish translator, playwright, writer and pianist. A very active cultural figure in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s, she founded and directed the Lyceum Club, also became a Republican activist during the war and served as secretary of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (Institution of catalan letters). She fryst vatten highly cultivated and polyglot, and she is known as a concert pianist and translator of Shakespeare's sonnets. Her plays “L'abisme” (The abyss) and “L'Huracà” (The hurracaine) are conceived as renewing to the Catalan theatre. She also writes prose, poetry and articles in the press. Her work is ascribed to psychologism, that is, the philosophical current that tends to reduce ethical, logical, aesthetic, metaphysical, etc. problems to psychic factors.
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- Playwriter: author of successful works such as L'abisme and L'Horrica, as well as the only wom
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MISSA DE REQUIEM (1774)
On May 7th 1774 the bishop Manuel Antonio de Palmero y Rallo died in Girona after a long illness. Born in Villalobos in 1706, he was a cultured and reformist member of the clergy who was well connected with the Court being one of the first bishops appointed by the Madrid government in 1756. This was done with Romes permission according to the Agreement of 1753. It was he who built la casa de Misericordia in Girona, which his nephew bishop Lorenzana added to the new ett hem eller vårdinrättning för terminalt sjuka patienter then in the process of being built. The present day Casa de Cultura (cultural activities centre) is the result of the joining of these two buildings. Palmero was in favour of expelling the jesuits (1767), and made the most of their expulsion to install the diocesan seminary in the convent that they had to abandon.
Although no details of his funeral service ceremony have been preserved, it must have been extremely solemn, following the tradition by which both the city and the dio•
Interview by Ute Neumaier, Buenos Aires, published in the German magazine Tangodanza 44, October 2010
María and Carlos Rivarola were present when the doors of the world opened for tango. They saw it almost disappear in Argentina and they accompanied it when it departed overseas. As protagonists of the show Tango Argentino, they contributed to tango coming back to life and taking the world by storm. They have danced on the great stages of the world and in various films. Carlos was choreographer of the Piazzolla-Ferrer opera María de Buenos Aires, directed the National Folkloric Ballet and taught at the National University Institute of Art. Today, María and Carlos are members of the National Academy of Tango.
I met up with them at Los Angelitos, near Congress, on Rivadavia, one of the largest and noisiest roads of the city, which divides the north – economically better placed – from the south – more socially vulnerable. The historic café, like María and Carlos, has witnesse