Word: chopin
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Nineteen ninety-nine was a big year for memorials. Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire and Noel Coward, among others, would have been 100, Pushkin 200, and it was International Chopin Year, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's death. While some were celebrated reverentially, others received more bizarre treatments...
...well as by concerts, the week of Chopin's death was marked by mimes, jazz interpretations, and--yikes!--the premier of Billy Joel's first classical piece, the Chopin-inspired Reverie...
...Fentrice Driskell's room is a comfortable Mather single: ginger snaps box, lava lamp, empty Chopin imported vodka bottle. Fendrice sat under a Tupac poster and he stared down at her in his gold jewelry and tattoos. She answered questions about cheerleading, thugs, alien invasions, and being a super hero...
...limited-edition The Rubinstein Collection (list price: $1,600) is perhaps the biggest box set ever devoted to a single artist. It contains 706 recordings made between 1928 and 1976, including most of the music of Chopin, three versions of the complete Beethoven piano concertos and plenty of chamber music, plus a 305-page booklet full of adoring essays by admiring colleagues, critics and relatives...
...performing privately for the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, at the age of 17. "He is someone I grew up idolizing. He freed Poland from the Communist government. I had always grown up admiring his strength of character and to get to play a program of all Polish music (Chopin), there was something kind of magical about the whole thing," he stated...