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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 ...

An authoritative, accessible biography details Chopin’s personal turmoil and captures his true musical significance Chopin is one of those great composers – Debussy is another – whose supreme ...

"A great, grrreat piece of news is that Little Chip-Chip is going to give a grrreat concert," wrote the cigar-smoking, larger-than-life George Sand in 1841. The news was indeed significant, because ...

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...

Frederic Chopin propelled the Romantic Era to its fullest heights. Even though his music is some of the most technically demanding ever written for the piano, he is known more for his nuance, his ...