Template:Did you know nominations/Ewa Bandrowska-Turska

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 10:11, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Ewa Bandrowska-Turska edit

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Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (1934)

~~... that in 1939, a trans-Atlantic radio broadcast featured Ewa Bandrowska-Turska singing four songs by Karol Szymanowski from the Royal Castle in Cracow for U.S. audiences?~~

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Apocalypse Now (painting), Donald L. Bryant, Jr. this was a double review, only using Apocalypse Now (painting) for this nomination.
Comment: for WikiProject Women in Red's Women in Music editathon

Created by SusunW (talk). Self-nominated at 15:26, 11 January 2016 (UTC).

Interesting bio, well sourced, Russian and Polish sources accepted AGF. Article name: some sources have just Bandrowska, - perhaps using that once the full name has been established would be less clumsy? The image is free, but shows little of her that size. The hook is interesting and sourced. Perhaps mentioning Polish and/or coloratura soprano would make it even more interesting? Or consider to mention the title of the songs? It's about music, not some royal place in Crakow ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:10, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Gerda Arendt! My thoughts on the name, only the US sources, and Americans are forever shortening things, give her name as only Bandrowska. The Polish ones give the full name (even including her middle name), as do the Russian ones and I suspect Bandrowska is her mother's surname, but I found no source giving the parents names. Would that I had access to that book, but I was reluctant to shorten the name without a native language source showing a shorter version.

I would love to crop the photo but don't know how once it is on WP. Maybe @Dr. Blofeld and Victuallers: could do that so it is just her headshot?

I thought the Royal palace of Kraków much more interesting than just Poland, but felt that it needed a beginning and an end as it was clearly broadcast from and to. It also seemed rather ironic that it was being broadcast from a Royalist stronghold during the brief period of a Republic when the German invasion was literally a couple of months away. And I liked the imagery in my minds eye of them finding beauty in song and the place in the midst of such a horrible tragedy. But ... that's just me.

I can add coloratura soprano and still be at 194 chars so can do

ALT1: ... that in 1939, a trans-Atlantic radio broadcast featured coloratura soprano, Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (pictured), singing four songs by Karol Szymanowski from the Royal Castle in Cracow for U.S. audiences? SusunW (talk) 22:39, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining name and reasons, got it. Miss the friend who did pic crops for me, including the signature image of Gardiner I put on (almost) every GA. Good luck finding someone. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt I think I managed to figure out the photo myself. I looked at one someone else had cropped and used the same type of reasoning so hopefully I did it right. Also added word pictured to the hook. SusunW (talk) 16:00, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Like the image, properly licensed, hope it will be shown, - sorry for the delay, tomorrow's cantata about heartache again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 16 January 2016 (UTC)