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New Chopin Museum; El Paso Chopin Fest; Poland says No Tests on Chopin's Heart

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Lang Lang's early Chopin connection; Chopin's Affair of the Heart

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PCH: Postively Chopin Highway (video)

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Chopin Broadcasts:

Waltz in A-flat, Op. 69, no. 1 "L'Adieu"
Performance Today - American Public Media

Today's edition of Performance Today - the most popular classical-music show in the USA - will feature a performance from The Chopin Project: Chih-Long Hu's live interpretation of Chopin's Waltz in A-flat, Op. 69, no. 1 "L'Adieu"

Produced and distributed by American Public Media, Performance Today is broadcast on 245 public radio stations across the country and is heard by about 1.1 million people each week. Each station individually decides what time to air the program. To find out where and when to hear Performance Today, check out publicradiofan, an independent website that is an excellent guide to online streaming of US public radio stations. You'll also be able to hear the show on the Performance Today website for up to seven days after the broadcast.

Chopin News, Views, and Reviews:

Rudolf Firkusny, piano = SCHUBERT: Three Pieces, D. 946; MARTINU ...
Audiophile Audition - USA

Review of a BBC Legends CD featuring the renowned Czech pianist in a 1980 London recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall: "If Firkusny wanted to be Vladimir Horowitz, he could be."

The Chopin and Smetana offerings play as encores. The Op. 63 Mazurka is the pearl of the set of three--what Cortot called an exquisite, aristocratic dream--Firkusny’s touch is a mite pesant, but the natural lilt and grace of the shifting accents retain their innate, mesmeric charm.

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