If the music of Fryderyk “Frederic” Chopin lights your soul, Warsaw beckons you to walk, sit and listen. The Polish capital, home of the great composer, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the ...
When watching one of Hershey Felder’s one-man musical portrayals of history’s greatest composers, you find yourself wondering whether you’re attending a concert wrapped around a theatrical portrayal ...
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 ...
Eight-year-old Gary Rue would be very excited about the show that Rue, now 63, will get to see performed this weekend. Called “Chopin’s Heart,” it’s an original musical for which Rue wrote the songs.
The second Nashville International Chopin Piano Competition hosted 40 pianists from over 20 countries. Guangbin Wang, a 23-year-old blind pianist from China, won first place in the Artist category.
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 ...
Follow Scott Yoo and pianist Jan Lisiecki as they explore Chopin’s life, his Polish roots, and his journey to Paris taking a closer look at the composer's musical evolution and his deep connection to ...
A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in nearly 100 ...