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Chopin News, Reviews, and Previews:

Frederic Chopin Museum, Warsaw

Italians to design Warsaw’s Chopin Museum

Polish Radio External Service - Poland

Listen to the Audio report from Polish Radio: New Chopin Museum

“In 2010, the Chopin birth bicentenary year, Warsaw is to have a new-look Chopin Museum. An…

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Chopin News & Previews:

 

Lang Lang: Virtuoso pianist or ‘flashy’ showman?

Independent - London,England,UK

A preview of the celebrity and controversy surrounding Lang Lang, as he prepares to perform at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Tiannenmen Square on Friday  UK daily reveals the…

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Paganini Chopin

Dmitri VorobievThis rare bit of Chopiniana was supposedly written after violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini came through Warsaw in the summer of 1829, a concert we know that Chopin attended. A month later he graduated from the Higher School of Music in…

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Chopin at a Warsaw dance party Arthur Greene:

“In Warsaw, when Chopin was growing up, the social scene was extremely active, and anyone who wasn’t sick or crippled would go to dance parties almost every night. And the star of these events was usually Chopin, because he was…

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