The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin – from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Dianne Chilgren, Jerome Robbins, Musopen, Nocturnes, Pacific Northwest Ballet, ballet on May 31st, 2008
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“All Robbins” is all pleasure at PNB
Seattle Times – United States
The Jerome Robbins Chopin-dance fever juggurnaut rumbles on in Seattle, with acclaimed productions by Pacific Northwest Ballet of “The Concert” and “In The Night.”
Making its PNB premiere,…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Forever (movie), Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, downloads, sound samples on May 30th, 2008
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‘Forever’ captures architecture, ‘personality’ of French cemetery
Deseret News – Salt Lake City,UT,USA
“To be honest, a 90-minute documentary about a cemetery sounds — at least on paper — about as exciting as spending 90 minutes in a…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopin Project, Chris Hess, Dean Clough, Ed Harcourt, Heroic Polonaise, Ingrid Fliter, Istanbul Philharmonic, Roger Nixon, Sir Ernest Hall, William Corbett-Jones, William Kapell on May 29th, 2008
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The scared boy who dreamed… and the man who triumphed
Yorkshire Post – Leeds,England,UK
Approving profile of Yorkshire pianist-turned-textile-magnate-turned-arts- developer-turned-philanthropist Sir Ernest Hall, developer of the renowned Dean Clough arts and business complex, upon the publication of his memoir “How…
Posted in All-Chopin Recitals Warsaw, Benjamain Grosvenor, Chopin Currency, English Chamber Orchestra, Piano Concertos, Warsaw on May 28th, 2008
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Benjamin Grosvenor: Teenage Prodigy Comes of Age
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
An object lesson in how to nuture a burgeoning concert career… resulting in “a beguiling, stylish and richly rewarding performance of Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto played…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Disaster Relief, Kennedy Center, New Zealand, Sofya Gulyak, Washington International Music Competition on May 27th, 2008
Vaguely Chopin-connected News, Previews, and Reviews:
At Piano Showdown, Hard Choices
Washington Post – United States
“Year after year, standards of piano playing seem to improve, subtly yet perceptibly. The latest demonstration was Sunday afternoon in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, where a…
Posted in Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, BBC Symphony, Chopin Currency, Ingrid Fliter, Piano Concertos, Waltzes on May 26th, 2008
Posted in BBC Radio 3, Chopin Currency, Chopin Experience, Gilmore Festival, Ingrid Fliter, Nikolai Demidenko, Radiohead, Scherzos, William Kapell on May 25th, 2008
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Ingrid Fliter: ‘In the middle of my salad, he told me I’d won’
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
A “Get To Know Her” introduction to UK readers of It Girl Ingrid Fliter …
Born in Argentina and now living in Milan,…
Posted in BBC Radio 3, Chopin Currency, Chopin Experience, Dance, Dances At A Gathering, Gilmore Festival, Ingrid Fliter, Jerome Robbins, Minnesota Public Radio, Piotr Anderszewski, Royal Ballet, ballet on May 24th, 2008
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New Classical Tracks: The allure and the thrill of Chopin
Minnesota Public Radio – Saint Paul,MN,USA
Radio review of Gilmore Prize winner Ingrid Fliter’s new CD…
The young Argentine musician Ingrid Fliter is one of the brightest rising stars in…
Posted in Alex Cobbe, BBC Radio 3, Catherine Bott, Chopin Currency, Chopin Experience, Pleyel Piano, barcarolle on May 23rd, 2008
Chopin in the Blogosphere:
From the blog earideas, a chance to listen to one of the programs from the BBC’s Chopin Experience programs. (The BBC’s rather maddening policy is to pull all of their audio after 7 days). The audio is…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopiniana, Cuba, Dance, Jerome Robbins, Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan, Kirov Ballet, ballet on May 22nd, 2008
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Young Cuban Pianist Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan Awarded win the Prize …
Cuba Headlines – Ciudad Habana,Habana,Cuba
Our first dispatch from the island’s news agency….
Virtuous interpretations of “Nocturne” by Frederic Chopin and Concert Studies of Franz Liszt made possible…
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Beethoven, Chopin Currency, Dance, Hershey Felder, Monsieur Chopin, Preludes, Prometheus Dance Company, Yundi Li on May 21st, 2008
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Must male pianists be pin-ups?
guardian.co.uk – UK
Provocative column from Guardian blogger about “making glamourpusses out of pianists…” The readers think it’s more of a generation gap…
In the crisis-laden economy of classical music concerts, pianists today are often…
Posted in A Country in the Moon, Chopin Currency, Jacek Kortus, Mazurkas, Michael Moran, Nocturnes, Poland, Polish History, Waltzes on May 20th, 2008
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A Country in the Moon, by Michael Moran
Independent – London,England,UK
Review declares Michael Moran’s new book about Poland to be an “absorbing, exasperating and ultimately rewarding travelogue.”
Moran emerges from these pages as a romantic, a bon viveur,…
Posted in Accordion, Chopin Academy Warsaw, Chopin Currency, Lidia Kaminska on May 19th, 2008
Virtuoso introducing America toclassical music on the accordion
Las Vegas Sun – Las Vegas,NV,USA
“No, I don’t play polkas,” says Lidia Kaminska, “the first and still the only accordionist in the United States who has a doctorate in accordion (received from the…
Posted in Chopin, Nocturnes, Polina Khatsko on May 18th, 2008
Cross-posted from our companion daily blog site The Chopin Currency: By “Currency” we mean just how contemporary – and how powerfully it resonates in our own time, nearly 200 years since the composer’s birth.
This month we’re getting a compelling reminder…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Les Sylphides, Mikhail Fokine, Valery Panov, ballet on May 18th, 2008
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‘Carmen’ reincarnated
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Russian-Israeli choreographer (and Kirov vet) Valery Panov’s dance company offers a twin-bill of Carmen and Chopin in Tel Aviv…
Les Sylphides, set to the music of Chopin by Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine in…
Posted in BB, Chopin Currency, Chopin Experience, Glenn Gould, Jacques Loussier, Recordings, Simon Trpčeski, Stephen Hough, Tamas Vasary on May 17th, 2008
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A Chopin extravaganza
Times Online – UK
Nice Times of London summation of the BBC Radio 3 Chopin Experience:
After the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky Experiences and the Bach Christmas it’s time for Frédéric Chopin to sit in a deckchair in…
Posted in Burma, Chopin Currency, Disaster Relief, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Nocturnes, PSAs on May 16th, 2008
Chopin Videos:
The Film – “None of Us Are Free”
How “current” is Chopin? Look no further for powerful testimony than from this current PSA produced on commission from MTV networks to raise awareness for disaster relief in Myanmar (a/k/a Burma). First,…
Posted in Bill Holm, Chopin Currency, Gilmore Festival, Ingrid Fliter, Kalamazoo Symphony, McKnight Foundation, writers on May 13th, 2008
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Gilmore artist Ingrid Fliter, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra team up …
Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com – Kalamazoo,MI,USA
The penultimate performance at the Gilmore Fest draws raves…
One might consider Mozart as Fliter’s specialty — until she played Chopin.
Chopin’s “Concerto No.…
Posted in BBC Radio 3, Chopin Bicentennial, Chopin Currency, Chopin Experience, Etudes, Marc-André Hamelin, Mateusz Kolakowski, Poland, Sejm (Parliament), jazz on May 12th, 2008
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Sejm declares 2010 Year of Chopin
Thenews.pl – Warsaw,Poland
The Polish Parliment makes an Official Proclamation, preceded by “lively debate.” And just what DID happen to the Piano in the House?
The Sejm, Polish lower chamber of parliament, has…
Posted in Beethoven, Chopin Currency, Gabriela Montero, George Sand, Gilmore Festival, Grigory Sokolov, Hershey Felder, Jorgeous, Marc-André Hamelin, Monsieur Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 3, photos on May 10th, 2008
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Felder completes composer trilogy with ‘Beethoven’ premiere
North County Times – Escondido,CA,USA
Really having more to do with Ludwig than Fryderyk, a preview of Hershey Felder’s new one-man show in San Diego…
Like the other two plays, “Beethoven, As…
Posted in Chopin, Jei-Yern Ryu, Waltzes, piano on May 10th, 2008
Chopinmusic.net calls this Grand Valse “one of Chopin’s most popular and glittering works.” We’re hard pressed to disagree.
Hear Chopin Project pianist Jei-Yern Ryu perform Chopin’s effervescent Waltz in E-flat, Op. 18.
Posted in A Country in the Moon, Chopin Currency, Etudes, Garrick Ohlsson, Gilmore Festival, Michael Moran, Piano Sonata No. 3, Poland, Polish History, Preludes, Rafał Blechacz, Stephen Hough, Videos, Waltzes, books on May 9th, 2008
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Concert review: Young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz dazzles …
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
A Bay Area reviewer isn’t quite ready to hand the Chopin crown to the hot young Polish pianist….
His performance May 4 at…
Posted in A Country in the Moon, Alisa Weilerstein, Ballades, Cello Sonata, Chopin Currency, Gabriela Montero, Giuseppe Albanese, Inon Barnatan, Literature, Michael Moran, Poland, Ventura Music Festival, books on May 8th, 2008
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A Country In The Moon is a poetic exploration
Metro – London,UK
Echoes of Chopin abound in a new travelogue through post-Communist Poland by an Australian author ‘”honoring a deathbed pledge to his uncle– an eccentric concert pianist…
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Ayesha Tariq, Chopin Currency, Dance, Ingrid Fliter, Isadora Duncan, Karachi, Pakistan, Waltzes on May 7th, 2008
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A scintillating fiesta of melodies
The News – International – Pakistan
It’s not often we get Chopin reviews from Karachi!
The evening’s programme opened the Polish-French composer Frederick Francois Chopin’s Waltz in F Major. Ayesha Tariq gave a delightfully…
Posted in Aaron Jay Kernis, Chopin Currency, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Frederic Chopin Society (Minnesota), Mihaela Ursuleasa, Neil Sedaka, Rafał Blechacz, Vancouver Chopin Society on May 6th, 2008
Chopin Video of the Day: Neil Sedaka Plays Chopin, c. 1965
The crooner shows off his classical chops by playing the Fantaisie-Impromptu after stumping the panel on the game show I’ve Got A Secret…
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Romanian pianist gives strong…
Posted in Chopin Birthplace, Chopin Currency, Ewa Poblocka, Zelazowa Wola (birthplace) on May 5th, 2008
Chopin at Home:
Visit Chopin’s birthplace
Thenews.pl – Warsaw,Poland
A great way to spend your Sundays in the Polish countryside….
The 55th season of Sunday concerts in Zelazowa Wola, Chopin’s birthplace about 60 kilometres west of Warsaw, has been inaugurated with the recitals by…
Posted in Alexander Tharaud, Chopin Currency, May Third, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Military Polonaise, Polish Constitution, Preludes, William Kapell on May 4th, 2008
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New Recordings of Legendary Pianist
New York Times – United States
This Tuesday privately made recordings of the American pianist William Kapell’s last concerts will finally be available. Sony/BMG is releasing this two-disc set, which has works by…
Posted in Alexander Korsantia, American Ballet Theatre, Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition, Chekhov, Chopin Currency, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Freddy Kempf, Jerusalem Symphony, Olesia Shewchuk, Piano Concertos, plays on May 2nd, 2008
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From Georgia with love
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Georgian Pianist Alexander Korsantia prepares to play a concert with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, whose home venue of Henry Crown Hall just happens to be located on 5 Chopin Street…
I…
Posted in Andras Schiff, BBC Radio 3, Chopin Currency, madness on May 1st, 2008
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Chopin: Genius or monster?
Independent – London,England,UK
Think piece from UK daily: “As Radio 3 prepares to broadcast the composer’s complete works, Michael Church says that he’s been woefully misunderstood…” Worth a read!
The stock images are of the…
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