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15 remarkable discoveries of 2024
1 week, 6 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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What made Maurizio Pollini a piano god? Even his late recordings are a revelation
8 months, 4 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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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 …

Sun Works Brahms Piano Pieces Pianist Chopin
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 …

Sun Works Brahms Piano Pieces Pianist Chopin
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 …

Sun Works Brahms Piano Pieces Pianist Chopin
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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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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