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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Chopin News, Views, and Reviews:
‘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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Chopin News, Views, Reviews, and Previews:
“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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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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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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Chopin News, Reviews, & Previews:
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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