
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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Posted in Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Artur Rubinstein, Ben Agosto, Chopin Currency, Ice Dancing, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Tanith Belbin, Yundi Li, fiction, figure skating on Mar 18th, 2008

Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:
Belbin, Agosto taking a classical approach
Boston Globe - United States
Chopin turns out to be the missing ingredient in the ice-dancing tandem’s Quest for Gold….
[Tanith] Belbin and [Ben] Agosto are the most successful dance team the US…
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Posted in Ballades, Cecile Licad, Chopin Currency, Evgenia Rubinova, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Heroic Polonaise, Kurikinton Fox, Lang Lang, Mazurkas, Piano Concertos, Yundi Li, arrangements, fiction on Mar 15th, 2008
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 Arthur Greene, Chopin Currency, Chopin Project, Elton John, George Sand, Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Novi Sad (vocal group), Tadeus Majewski, Videos, Vladimir Ashkenazy, asteriods, fiction on Mar 1st, 2008

Chopin Performance of the Day: A Chopin Rarity from Chopin Project Artistic Director Arthur Greene:
“The Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2 comes from around 1830, -after Chopin had left Warsaw forever. But the version I’m playing here has a bit of…
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