The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.
Nor could jury members avoid reckoning with Kevin Chen’s freakish virtuosity in the Chopin Etudes Op. 10, musical considerations aside. Although I don’t find Miyu Shindo’s artistry particularly ...
Lang Lang, “In Paris: Music of Chopin and Tchaikovsky” performed by pianist Lang Lang (Sony Classical, two discs) Anyone who might well have wondered what kind of circus clown Chinese piano virtuoso ...
“Number fourteen, home” is an elaborate video requiem for the dead -- specifically for the great Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin but, by implication, for the entire network of cultural relations ...
Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...
WARSAW, Poland — As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland ...