Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
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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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

Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
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 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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