Word: chopin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While at Andover Academy, Ponte was awarded the Milton Collier prize for piano. At Harvard, Ponte is taking courses under Randall Thompson, professor of Music. Selections from Bach, Schubert, Franck, Chopin, Debussy and Bartok will be included in Ponte's program this afternoon...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
...young Robert Schumann, who was busily praising him from afar ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius"), Chopin said, "I am constantly afraid that ... he will write something that will make me ridiculous forever." He complained, "Why did I not live when Bach and Mozart were living? I would burn all my trash if they considered it unworthy...
...long suffered from tuberculous hemorrhages. One day in 1849 ne was visited by a former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...
Five months later, nonetheless, after more hemorrhages, Frederic Chopin quietly took the sacraments, said his prayers, and died. His last requests were that the Mozart Requiem be played at his funeral and that his heart be taken to Warsaw...