Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Rafael Viñoly’s Musical Refuge
New York Sun – United States
The world-famous concert-hall architect somehow finds time to practice, practice, practice…
The Uruguayan-born Mr. Viñoly is no mere collector. He is a bona fide musician who once contemplated a career…
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‘The Spies of Warsaw’ by Alan Furst
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
“Furst’s books are like Chopin’s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell and to fall in love…
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Chopin in the blogosphere:
Robbins’s Definitive Chopin at the NYC Ballet
By nahnopenotquite
The Jerome Robbins Celebration for the 2008 spring season at the New York City Ballet is on now. I saw a program last night called Definitive Chopin that consisted of three…
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‘Chopin Manuscript’ wins top Audie
Arizona Daily Star – Tucson,AZ,USA
And the winner is… The Audie Awards (the so-called “Oscars of the Audiobook Industry”) hand out the top prize to The Chopin Manuscript — a “serial thriller” named Audiobook of…
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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,…
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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
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Posted in Australian ballet, Chopin Currency, Dance, Dang Thai Son, Films, Forever (movie), Gene Bertonici, Jerome Robbins, Kristopher Hull, Pianist Errant, Rochester Symphony on Apr 24th, 2008
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Piano Man on a Mission
Miami New Times – Miami,FL,USA
Fascinating story of the “self-taught classical pianist” Kristopher Hull, who’s now taking his Chopin-heavy act to the streets of Miami as a “Pianist Errant”
This past February 27 would come…
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“Dear Frederic” – Complexions Contemporary Ballet
calendarlive.com – Los Angeles,CA,USA
Review of “vibrant Chopin” as part of a “sensational seven-part program,” which opens with a brief primer on the Chopin dance oeuvre…
Chopin never wrote a ballet. But that hasn’t…
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopiniana, Dance, Evgenia Rubinova, Heroic Polonaise, Illinois Symphony, Jerome Robbins, Kirov Ballet, Lang Lang, Opera North Orchestra, Sa Chen on Apr 8th, 2008
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Though Hyde did appear, Lang Lang mostly Jekyll
Chicago Tribune – United States
Chicago critic decides there are two sides – or perhaps two personas – in the Chinese virtuoso:
More and more I am convinced there are two…
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Posted in Alexander Tharaud, American Ballet Theatre, Buffalo NY, Chopin Currency, Chopin Singing Society, Dance, Dear Fredric, Dyngus Day, Preludes, Videos on Mar 24th, 2008
Dyngus Day to proclaim Polish pride
Buffalo News – NY, United States
Today we tip our hat to the venerable Chopin Singing Society, proud keepers of the Dyngus Day flame in Western New York…
For the clueless, Dyngus Day is a Polish-American tradition…
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Etudes, Heroic Polonaise, Jerome Robbins, Lang Lang, Martha Argerich, Mazurkas, New York City Ballet, Oliver Sacks, fiction, journals on Mar 14th, 2008
Kicking against convention: a scene from The Concert, a clever and …
This is London – London,England,UK
Another one of Jerome Robbins’ famous interpretations of Chopin, from the New York City Ballet performance at the London Coliseum….(be sure to read the Comments…
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Posted in Artur Rubinstein, Chopin Currency, Chopinzee, Dance, Her Name is Sabine, Jerome Robbins, Nocturnes, San Francisco Ballet, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shura Cherkassy, Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir de Pachmann on Mar 12th, 2008
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Method & madness: The oddities of the virtuosi
Independent – London,England,UK
This just in: A lot of great pianists of the ages have been more than a little crackers. A dissection on the eccentricities and downright madness of…
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Dmitri Tymoczko, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Oh Ah-Mi, Piano Concertos, Preludes, Waltzes, circus, mathematics on Mar 11th, 2008
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Cellist Oh Ah-mi’s Courageous Crossover
Korea Times – South Korea
The world’s first self-described “crossover cellist,” breaks conventions by adding dance moves to the still-standing cello performance. “I am inspired by Vanessa Mae’s passionate playing and Beyonce’s strong…
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Diavolo to defy the laws of physics Saturday
Preview of Telluride appearance by innovative LA Dance Troupe incorporating Chopin into their latest show: “Diavolo is comprised of dancers, gymnasts, actors and rock climbers who perform together like…
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Posted in Chopin Currency, Chopin coin, Chopiniana, Dance, Les Sylphides, Mazurkas, Mikhail Fokine, Reverie Romantique, Sergei Diaghilev, St. Petersburg Ballet, Vassily Primakov on Feb 26th, 2008
Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
St. Petersburg Ballet pirouettes into the PAC
Well-written review from the UM-St. Louis student paper giving high marks and providing good context for the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater performance….”The program opened with one of the dance masterpieces…
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