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15 remarkable discoveries of 2024
1 week, 5 days ago

15 remarkable discoveries of 2024

CNN  

CNN — It may be an archaeologist’s job to unearth astounding discoveries, but every year some people just have an extraordinarily lucky — or strange — day. A 12-sided enigma One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known …

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Waltz Possibly Written By Composer Frederic Chopin Discovered In NYC Museum
1 month ago

Waltz Possibly Written By Composer Frederic Chopin Discovered In NYC Museum

Huff Post  

NEW YORK — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: “Chopin.” A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master Frederic Chopin appears to have been found at the Morgan Library & …

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Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
1 month ago

Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?

Hindustan Times  

NEW YORK — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: “Chopin.” Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum? Musically, the piece evokes the “brilliant style” that made …

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Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin just been discovered?
1 month ago

Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin just been discovered?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: “Chopin.” A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master Frederic Chopin appears to have been found at the Morgan Library & …

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Frank Sinatra, Chopin and Mozart tribute candlelight concerts to happen in Mumbai, Pune
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Frank Sinatra, Chopin and Mozart tribute candlelight concerts to happen in Mumbai, Pune

Hindustan Times  

Open-air concerts, gigs at stadiums and close-knit gatherings with your favourite musicians strumming away, Mumbai and Pune have seen a variety of musical events. Surrounded by thousands of candles, a quartet plays Excited about the upcoming concert by the glimmering light, Wadhwan says, “Frank Sinatra has played a significant role in my life as a jazz musician. Classics like Fly …

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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Laufey
7 months, 4 weeks ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Laufey

LA Times  

Icelandic Chinese vocalist and songwriter Laufey has an appreciation for life’s many wonders. I still to this day feel like that.” The TikTok-savvy songstress has since settled in, even referencing L.A.’s “weeping” mountains, and Sunset Boulevard in a collaboration with the Icelandic Philharmonic called “ California and Me.” Her career reached new heights in February when her first album, “Bewitched,” …

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What made Maurizio Pollini a piano god? Even his late recordings are a revelation
8 months, 3 weeks ago

What made Maurizio Pollini a piano god? Even his late recordings are a revelation

LA Times  

In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. Although Pollini did record Chopin’s First Piano Concerto upon accepting his prize, he otherwise kept the sharks at bay for close to a decade. Daniele was a talented piano student, Pollini said, adding that his son didn’t need …

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Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini dies at age 82
9 months ago

Acclaimed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini dies at age 82

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Maurizio Pollini, a Grammy-winning Italian …

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A musical triangle
11 months, 2 weeks ago

A musical triangle

China Daily  

Chelsea Guo As for singing, Guo says that she didn't take it seriously and only sang for fun at choirs during her childhood. When she studied in the Juilliard School's Pre-College program, Guo was trained with a double major in piano and classical voice. Here is a rare talent," said BBC Music Magazine upon the 2021 release of Guo's debut …

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Sun looking to shine brighter
1 year, 1 month ago

Sun looking to shine brighter

China Daily  

Young pianist Sun Yutong performs German composer Johannes Brahms' last pieces for solo piano at the Beijing Concert Hall on Aug 19. To celebrate the 190th anniversary of German composer Johannes Brahms' birth, young pianist Sun Yutong was ambitious in leading his audience through pieces from the composer's later years. "I hope, through these piano miniatures, I can bring my …

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Sun looking to shine brighter
1 year, 1 month ago

Sun looking to shine brighter

China Daily  

Young pianist Sun Yutong performs German composer Johannes Brahms' last pieces for solo piano at the Beijing Concert Hall on Aug 19. To celebrate the 190th anniversary of German composer Johannes Brahms' birth, young pianist Sun Yutong was ambitious in leading his audience through pieces from the composer's later years. "I hope, through these piano miniatures, I can bring my …

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Sun looking to shine brighter
1 year, 1 month ago

Sun looking to shine brighter

China Daily  

Sun and his fiancee Guo Xu pose with their teacher Chang Hua at the primary and middle schools affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and Li Hang, executive editor-in-chief of the magazine Piano Artistry. Previously, Sun took second prize at the 2018 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, and in 2012, he became the champion of the …

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Sun looking to shine brighter
1 year, 1 month ago

Sun looking to shine brighter

China Daily  

Young pianist Sun Yutong performs German composer Johannes Brahms' last pieces for solo piano at the Beijing Concert Hall on Aug 19. To celebrate the 190th anniversary of German composer Johannes Brahms' birth, young pianist Sun Yutong was ambitious in leading his audience through pieces from the composer's later years. "I hope, through these piano miniatures, I can bring my …

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Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands’ most notable movie roles
1 year, 5 months ago

Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands’ most notable movie roles

LA Times  

Julian Sands, whose remains were found Saturday and identified this week five months after he went missing while hiking near Mt. — Kevin Crust ‘The Killing Fields’ Kanopy | Apple TV + | Prime Video 1984 | 2 hours, 21 minutes | Rated R “The Killing Fields” premiered years ago as more than the first major film to explore the …

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Chopin museum reopens in Warsaw with new original exhibits
1 year, 7 months ago

Chopin museum reopens in Warsaw with new original exhibits

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A baroque Warsaw mansion hosting a museum dedicated to one of Europe’s greatest 19th century musicians, Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, is reopening with a new focus on original artifacts after months of pandemic-spurred renovations. The museum, which houses Chopin’s last piano, a Pleyel, and manuscripts of his music, will also display new items including letters …

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His family saved a girl from Nazis. That changed this Ukrainian refugee’s ‘destiny’
1 year, 8 months ago

His family saved a girl from Nazis. That changed this Ukrainian refugee’s ‘destiny’

LA Times  

Alex Bogancha lay in bed, restless as he and a friend talked on the phone about whether Russia would invade Ukraine. They had been volunteering with Ukrainian Mothers and Children Transport, which helps Ukrainian refugees come to the U.S. Candy Dawson with her husband, Greg Dawson, at Lake Lily in Maitland, Fla. “I’m a son of Holocaust survivors,” said one …

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Sundance 2023 review: Everyone’s a winner in the stirring ‘Pianoforte’
1 year, 10 months ago

Sundance 2023 review: Everyone’s a winner in the stirring ‘Pianoforte’

Live Mint  

Alex is getting his body worked over by his coach. “You’ll be playing for him.” At several points during Pianoforte, Jakub Piątek’s mesmerizing account of the 2021 edition of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, I felt I could be watching a sports documentary. When Russian pianist Eva receives seven specific and different instructions in seven seconds from her coach, it …

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Key worker
3 years ago

Key worker

China Daily  

Chinese Canadian pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu performs at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which was held in Warsaw in October. Already busy on a marathon, sold-out tour, Bruce Xiaoyu Liu has yet to process the enormity of his latest piano competition victory, Chen Nan reports. The 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which was held in Warsaw from …

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Key worker
3 years ago

Key worker

China Daily  

Bruce Xiaoyu Liu at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Asked about his study with Dang, Liu says in a way they are "like very good friends or family members". Liu enjoys listening to music played by older generation pianists "because piano-playing tastes have changed so much between now and 50 years ago", he says. Liu's father, a lover …

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Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century
3 years, 2 months ago

Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century

The Hindu  

A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades, before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century, when the Polish piano composer lived. Nicolaus Copernicus University professor Dariusz Markowski, the art expert who examined and restored the portrait last year, says it has significant …

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Chopin gay? The awkward question in one of the EU’s worst countries for LGBTQ rights
4 years ago

Chopin gay? The awkward question in one of the EU’s worst countries for LGBTQ rights

CNN  

London CNN — Each year, millions of visitors to Poland are introduced to the country’s favorite son before they even set foot on its soil. “What is obvious in his letters that there is love written to his male friends – most passionately to Titus Woyciechowski,” Weber said, referring to the Polish activist and longtime friend of Chopin’s. “He’s admired, …

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Classical reviews: Bruckner, Beethoven and Chopin
4 years, 1 month ago

Classical reviews: Bruckner, Beethoven and Chopin

The Independent  

Bruckner Mass in E minor Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Henry Websdale and Donal McCann, organ scholars; conducted by Sir Stephen Cleobury King’s College Cambridge KGS0035 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ For 35 years Stephen Cleobury conducted the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, as well as doing long stints leading the BBC Singers …

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