Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh of the students is Polish born Benon Przybielski '51, whose father was killed in 1939 and the rest of his family, except one brother, sent to a concentration camp. The brother joined the underground in Warsaw, but Benon was sent to do farm work in Germany...
...disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
State sternly asked Prague, Budapest and Warsaw what information they had on the Fields. But behind the Iron Curtain, no one knew-or would say-whatever had happened to that fellow Noel, his brother Hermann, and that German girl whom Noel had married...
...incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming off the press. Meanwhile, four new. books on Chopin's life and music (the best: Polish Poet Casimir Wierzynski...
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...