The Chopin Currency – Feb. 18, 2008
Feb 18th, 2008 by bkr
Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
The Vienna New Year’s Day Concert transported to the Philippines, featuring Filipino pianist Rudolf Golez, sole prize winner of the Chopin competition in Kuala Lumpur….
Inquirer.net – Philippines
28 and Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante” and “Spianoto.” Proceeds of the concert will go to the GeoChrist Foundation Inc., which seeks to make …
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Sunday paper feature from India…
Deccan Herald – Bangalore,India
Marianne de Nazareth writes about the short life and career of piano maestro Frederic Chopin. If you are a romantic, there is nothing nicer than listening …
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Interesting piano recital in Red Bank, NJ from pianist Kimball Gallagher.
Asbury Park Press – Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Along with these lesser-known pieces will be traditional piano fare, highlighted by a set of mazurkas by Frederic Chopin. Gallagher is of a new breed of …
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Piano Virtuosos to Give Solo Recitals
More Chopin Prizewinners in concert…Lim Dong-hyek plays in Seoul…
Korea Times – South Korea
The 23-year-old made headlines when he shared the third prize in the 2006 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition with his brother Dong-min. …
Chopin in the Blogosphere:
Something about moving pianos around….
Nonstarving Artists – USA
Pianist errantry was afoot, and I was completely submerged in the Chopin I was playing. The keyboard was a map to the canyons of my mind. …
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And now, for an opposing viewpoint….
By Antonio De Felice(Antonio De Felice)
I simply hate Chopin. Being a pianist, this sounds a bit like a blasphemy. i want philosophy in music, from the irony of Prokofiev to the architecture of Bach… but Chopin’s music, bourgeois music for middle class who pretended to be …
The blog of Antonio De Felice – http://adf-pisa.livejournal
Bass Lesson: “Piano Study Brahms Etude-chopin Var” by Jon Hermansen
A string-bass instruction site using Chopin-a-la-Brahms to teach a lesson…
Style: Classical. Difficulty: Ridiculous. Not really practical, however very important concepts-continue:Please dont get caught up in the complexity, it is not worth it. Just focus on the message of the lesson.
New Bass Lessons – http://www.activebass.com
Chopin Photos & Images:
Chopin monument
By Ziutograf
Chopin monument Famous Chopin monument in Lazienki Park. Warsaw, Poland. More in Warsaw lightbox: My Park scenes lightbox.
iStockphoto.com – Newest Uploads – http://www.istockphoto.com
Frédéric Chopin
By nobody@flickr.com (Jauss)
Jauss posted a photo:. Frédéric Chopin.
Photos from Jauss – http://www.flickr.com/photos
Chopin Downloads of Dubious Legality:
dwnld: more Fiorentino plays Chopin
Summary: More Fiorentino playing Chopin. … From Saga XID 5016 19 waltzes and the … ecossaises op.72c. … The playing is fabulous, the recording quality is …
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