Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:

‘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 cemetery. But surprisingly, Forever turns out to be a much-better film than that would suggest…..”

Director Heddy Honigmann and cinematographer Robert Alazraki spend much of the 90 minutes capturing the architecture and “personality” of said cemetery, which turns out to be Pere-Lachaise in France.

For those who don’t know, the cemetery is the final resting place of such luminaries as Doors frontman Jim Morrison, composer Frederic Chopin, cinematic trickster Georges Melies, actress Simone Signoret, author and critic Marcel Proust, and many, many others.

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Chopin-related Downloads:

9. PIANO FILLS—CHOPIN INTRO 2.aif by hammerklavier

From the Free Sound Project website, a Chopin-flavored offering…

	Another improvised opening (by me) in the style of Chopin or Liszt. Very florid and purposely fiery. Recorded some years back—has some tinniness and distortions. Slightly processed to overcome them…

The Freesound Project – http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/