The Piano Music of Fryderyk Chopin – from the Studio of Arthur Greene
Posted in Alexander Kobrin, Chopin Currency, Definitive Chopin, Jerome Robbins, New York City Ballet, Preludes, The Concert on Jun 11th, 2008
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A Comedic Ballet With Legs
Wall Street Journal – USA
WSJ critic marvels at the staying power of Jerome Robbins’ Chopinistic comedic creation….
“Death,” one showbiz quip has it, “is easy; comedy is hard.” However savvy Jerome Robbins might…
Posted in American Ballet Theatre, Chopin Currency, Dance, Jerome Robbins, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Rafael Vinoly, depression, mental illness on Jun 10th, 2008
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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…
Posted in Alan Furst, Chopin Currency, Dance, Definitive Chopin, Jerome Robbins, New York City Ballet, Spies of Warsaw, fiction on Jun 8th, 2008
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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…
Posted in Chopin Currency, Dance, Definitive Chopin, Jerome Robbins, Preludes, Videos on Jun 6th, 2008
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…
Posted in Audie Awards, Chopin Currency, Dance, Eternal Sonata, Jerome Robbins, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Chopin Manuscript, ballet on Jun 2nd, 2008
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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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
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…
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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