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Thu 4-Oct-56:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saw Baranga at Institute & heard Aida<\/i><\/h6>\n
Fri 5-Oct-56:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saw <\/i>Sc\u00eenteia<\/i> Printing works<\/i><\/a>\u00a0[See some current pictures at\u00a0http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cristina_\/336794051\/<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38737290@N06\/5723590216<\/i><\/a>\u00a0]. Heard Rumanian Folk songs at concert.<\/i><\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/i><\/p>\n

Bucharest, Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e\u00a0 Palace Hotel<\/a> Friday 4 Oct [5 Oct] 7.30 am<\/p>\n

Darling,<\/p>\n

The pace is killing me. Yesterday I saw a Mr. Baranga, a director or something of the Institute & through the girl interpreter a program of activities was arranged in which my wishes were to be considered and about where we may get to in the country. What I want to see, etc. Naturally it is to do with the artistic culture \u2013 also asked me if I could give a lecture or write a paper, on Australian art. I said I could hardly lecture, but I would try and write something. It was all very cordial, and they expressed the desire for me to enjoy my visit here, and hoped the program was not too strenuous, & if I thought so, please to cut it down. I was to let my interpreter know whatever I wanted \u2013 Also they asked could I let them know within a few days when I wanted to return, as plane bookings were very heavy & they wanted to secure me my passage. Well, you couldn\u2019t ask for better treatment could you.<\/p>\n

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Just inside the entrance to the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stefania Rotaru, Wep’s interpreter and guide, looks out from an early 18th Century house from Chiojdul Mic village, Cislau District, Ploesti Region; The Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stefania Rotaru, Wep’s interpreter and guide, at the Rasinari display, the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stefania Rotaru, Wep’s interpreter and guide, outside a homestead from Suici (a wooden house with two pairs of rooms on high stone foundation; cellar and hen houses); The Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Near the Jurilovca house, the Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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House from Jurilovca, (cellar and entrance to storeroom); The Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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House from Jurilovca; The Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stefania Rotaru, Wep’s interpreter and guide, at the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania looking across the lake towards the Sc\u00eenteia Printing works; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stefania Rotaru, Wep’s interpreter and guide, at the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum in Bucharest, Romania; 4 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ref: Fosca, Gheorghe; The Village Museum in Bucharest, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Bucharest, 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, all day, we had a car at our disposal & I was taken around to various galleries. Seems like my time of arrival was inauspicious, as two galleries were closed, being renovated \u2013 and the biggest gallery (the ex Royal Palace<\/a>, which by the way is facing the same square as this hotel) all the best contemporary Rumanian paintings are absent in various European capitals. So we went to the Village Museum<\/a>. A fine place, set in the big park by the edge of the lake. In this village 32 buildings each from a different area of Rumania (Transylvania, Moldavia, Banat, Cluj regions etc). They have taken down an actual dwelling from these parts & re-erected it in the park. The house, its granary outside & gates & fence \u2013 are placed amongst the trees here. The contents also have been brought & clothes, pottery, cooking implements are in place in the interiors. The embroidery, those peasants did was fantastically sumptuous and the pottery lovely in the sturdy peasant manner. It was in the afternoon, after lunch, we visited the Royal Gallery, where I saw the 19th<\/sup> Cent. Work, excepting that they did peasants, whereas we did settlers. That period in art seems quite international. The modern period seems (I mean world wide) to be getting pretty much the same international flavour \u2013 except in these red countries where the emphasis seems to be on heroic emergence of the worker \u2013 realistic presentation of stirring events, etc \u2013 all easily readable to the masses. A visual encouragement \u2013 so to speak. After the gallery, Stefania seemed to be flagged out, as the Rumanian custom is to knock off between 1 & 4 or 2 to 5 for a rest from the heat. Factory workers transport etc, caterers of course work through. So from 4 to 6, I trudged the town. Could be very very attractive \u2013 but is pretty crumby now. The people are poor, & while consumer goods, in very ordinary quality are there, don\u2019t seem to be able to afford them. The main streets are kept very clean, others, any old how. At 5 the shops opened & I browsed through the books shops, which are very numerous. There is a obvious passion for learning. It is a bit hard to adjust oneself to the fact that these people are only just emerging from a period of great oppression & greater poverty \u2013 Only as late as 1907 the peasants revolted & were ruthlessly suppressed. Now they are organising the state alone & I guess it takes time.<\/p>\n

At 6.30 p.m. I was whisked off in the car to the opera Aida. Held in a small but fine Opera house<\/a>. Perfectly intimate like. Opera is on every night except in summer when it is too hot. I don\u2019t care for most of the music in Aida, but this presentation was superb. The d\u00e9cor & settings were really magnificent \u2013 done by a Stalin prize winner, a Russian named Cemodurov. Nothing like it will ever be seen in Australia as these settings are not transported all over the country. They are stacked away behind the Opera house. Great statues of the Egyptian Gods. Huge gates with the figure on them in relief, not painted illusion. Different levels \u2013 enormous cast behind the principals, good wild ballet work in it \u2013 sumptuous costumes colour & lighting. Sweetie, it was quite a spectacle! You know, or have heard of how the Russians can conceive these things. Place packed \u2013 yelling Bravo! Bravo! It was sung in Rumanian which is closely allied to Italian.<\/p>\n

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Advertisement for a\u00a0Concert of Popular Romanian Music from the orchestra of Barbu Lautaru to be held 5 Oct 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight, I am going to see a concert of Rumanian music & songs. After the opera, we returned to the hotel at 11.15 for dinner. Found it difficult to get a seat, the place was packed. It\u2019s an old Rumanian custom. The orchestra was going full blast \u2013 the girl had had it & asked to be excused to go home for sleep \u2013 so I had Rump steak saut\u00e9 Lyonnaise, & cr\u00e8me d\u2019aubergines. The orchestra playing fast as hell Rumanian music got me in. While I was fumbling for a match \u2013 the drummer leaped down with a lighter. I must have been obviously interested because the pianist beamed at me. The violinist seems inexhaustible. When at last they finished I gave them the last but 2 of my long Chesterfield cigarettes \u2013 there was one each for the 7 of them. They liked that (because these European cigarettes are bloody awful.) The pianist came over & affably spoke to me in English & said they\u2019d play anything I liked. English, American, German, Hungarian, Rumanian \u2013 so there! Also today I bought 4 gramophone records of Rumanian music. Farewell for the moment dearest girl.<\/p>\n

Midnight \u2013 Everything is unreal or very common place. Even the most unexpected things are; when experienced, acceptable without surprise. I\u2019ve just heard a Rumanian & Gypsy orchestra with 50 performers in the loveliest little concert hall<\/a> [Romanian Athenaeum<\/a>].<\/p>\n

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Romanian Athenaeum (Concert Hall), Strada Benjamin Franklin 1-3, Bucharest; 17 October 1956 – Stephania Rotaru, Wep’s guide, in foreground. Taken from Parcul Ateneului on Strada Episcopiei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About as wide as the Town Hall but circular, & with the orchestra projecting. It has a dome roof & Parisian spiral marble staircases leading from below up to the seats & boxes, which are all on the same level as the stage. 2\u00bd hours of Rumanian music played by the best in Rumania \u2013 Gypsy singers \u2013 violinists \u2013 pan pipers \u2013 cymbalos \u2013 all this activity. Without you, to remember it with me. At dinner with a couple of Englishmen (11.30pm) things liven up a bit. This character I met, apparently a supporter, spares no horses in what he charges the proletariat for dinner. The whole thing is like living in a foyer. However, within a few days I hope to make some contact, somewhere. The Rumanians are fundamentally very gracious \u2013 as I found out from a pidgin French German English conversation with the lift driver. I am quite happy and am seeing many things of interest. I guess I am missing the home-and-master touch. Your feet wouldn\u2019t stand it anyway. I\u2019m driving the Stefanie girl to the ground \u2013 God knows why \u2013 I\u2019m doing only half or a quarter of the walking I have been doing over every day since I arrived at Rome. Stephanie is a nice little girl \u2013 can\u2019t do enough for you in the way she thinks it should be done \u2013 you know, the mother type \u2013 reminds me of you \u2013 I don\u2019t mind. But one needs a few hours off sometimes. \u2013 I met an Englishman tonight \u2013 an ex-union executive or something who is studying art in Rumania & living & working here on a sort of extended grant. All very earnest artist \u2013 I shall find out if any good.<\/p>\n

Went to the Folk Art gallery<\/a> today \u2013 Peasant work \u2013 found the Ikons & cake & butter mould carvings more interesting than the embroidery, which is over powering \u2013 The density of decoration on their costume stuff is stifling. Wonderful work \u2013 but unusable in the modern world.<\/p>\n

I could not be looked after better _ I am very comfortable but I miss you \u2013 probably need your contact \u2013 but must say \u2013 so far am too tired even to get an early morning spring \u2013 no matter how urgent the call is. I want to talk to you \u2013 not listen \u2013 I want to see you do your hair over & over again. I want to smell that perfume as I lean over your neck. (Zut! Zut!) I want to see the flowers you have put in the hall \u2013 and I want to hear Graham practising in the same old uninspired way. Trellie on the lounge and you bellyaching to Graham in the morning \u2013 lay off him will you. What\u2019s it like living without a big blow \u2013 top?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect too many letters from me from now on \u2013 the rate of exchange is loaded against foreign currency. On my travellers cheques a letter airmail to you costs 24\/-, so you can understand the graciousness of the Institute in giving me 550 Lei (their unit of currency) to use for pocket money. That cable, I must admit, by mistake, went at full rates \u2013 95 Lei costing about \u00a36. (\u00a35 st = 82 Lei on the open market.)<\/p>\n

Enough of problems \u2013 It\u2019s only a fortnight since I was about to leave Australia. One is less isolated in the bush in Borneo or New Guinea. Soon I hope to meet some artists and perhaps find something in common.<\/p>\n

Lots of love to Graham \u2013 I can\u2019t write to him separately – & with my love,<\/p>\n

Bill<\/p>\n

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Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Sc\u00eenteii “I.V.Stalin” now known as Casa Presei Libere (House of the Free Press), Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956. Construction began in 1952 and was completed in 1956. (Sc\u00eenteia was the name of the Romanian Communist Party’s official newspaper). It was designed by the architect Horia Maicu, in the style of Soviet Socialist realism, resembling the main building of the Moscow State University, and was intended to house all of Bucharest’s printing presses, the newsrooms and their staff.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Sc\u00eenteii “I.V.Stalin” now known as Casa Presei Libere (House of the Free Press), Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Sc\u00eenteii “I.V.Stalin” now known as Casa Presei Libere (House of the Free Press), Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sc\u00eenteia (The Spark) printing works, Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956 – The paper was the official voice of the Communist party of Romania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sc\u00eenteia (The Spark) printing works, Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sc\u00eenteia (The Spark) printing works, Bucharest, Romania; 5 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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