How To Use Chopin In A Sentence
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This tune is usually attributed to Chopin.
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His early works show prominent influence from Chopin's pianistic quality (allegedly the young Scriabin slept with Chopin's score under his pillow!
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Categorical denials
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A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs?
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In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine.
Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves
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The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin.
Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
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The first prize winner will tour the U.S. in a series of more than 20 concerts prearranged by the Chopin Foundation.
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‘Oh, it is nothing,’ returned Chopin, gaily, ‘We each have our own style.’
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This made it an object of desire in the homes of the fast-growing bourgeoisie, creating a market greedy for the sheet music of Chopin's compositions that poured into the shops.
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There are four popular Chopin items, the first set of the Schubert Impromptus, and Ravel's La Valse as transcribed by the composer for piano solo.
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`Then I'd suggest chopinho or maté, depending on your taste.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Although he wrote scores for cello, voice, and orchestra, Chopin regarded the keyboard as supreme.
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In nearly five decades of concert going this writer has rarely heard more exquisite, sensitively projected Chopin.
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I was overwhelmed by his commanding, assured musicianship in Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Smetana, Liszt, and Grainger.
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Stiff and unpracticed, Szpilman manages to reprise Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, whereupon the officer stows him in an attic directly above German headquarters and feeds him.
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Take for example a chopine 3 cups/750 ml of good milk. . .
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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But as the term taught nothing to him who knew, said nothing to him who did not know, understand, and feel, Chopin afterwards ceased to add this explanation to his music, being persuaded that if one understood it, it was impossible not to divine this rule of irregularity.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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In one of the larger rooms there is a solfege class (singing practice, using scales), or one of composer Ramón Montes de Oca´s wonderful lectures on Chopin, or Webern, or Renaissance music.
Life and music in Guanajuato
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Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
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`Then I'd suggest chopinho or maté, depending on your taste.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Although Chopin in one of his early Paris letters calls Cherubini a mummy, he seems to have subsequently been more favourably impressed by him.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The waltzes stand among my least favorite Chopin pieces.
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He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale".
Country diary: Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire
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At the ripe age of 20, Kate married Oscar Chopin, another wealthy Creole and successful cotton broker in Louisiana.
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he practiced Chopin day and night
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By now Chopin was physically a shadow of himself; but it was not just lack of strength that made him play forte passages piano or pianissimo.
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When Szymanowski shifts into the parallel major, the mood is Chopin-esque and bittersweet:
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Until the late 18th century, Scots liquid measures had colourful names like ` mutchkin’ and ` chopin’ (2 mutchkins).
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Those who heard Schumann play say that he used the pedal persistently, sometimes twice in the same bar to avoid harmonic confusion; and the same is true of Chopin, concerning whose playing an English amateur says, after referring to his _legatissimo_ touch: "The wide arpeggios in the left hand, _maintained in a continuous stream of tone_ by the strict legato and fine and constant use of the damper pedal, formed an harmonious substructure for a wonderfully poetic _cantabile_.
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
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She received international acclaim for her interpretation of Chopin.
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Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin were leading Romantic composers.
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Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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Later this week is Homage To Fokine (Fri to 1 Aug) and a triple bill of Chopiniana (Les Sylphides), Scheherezade and Firebird, with Vishneva in the title role.
This week's new dance
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By r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Von Bulow makes this statement: "As the peculiar fingering adopted by Chopin for chromatic scales in thirds appears to us to render their performance in legatissimo utterly unattainable on our modern instruments, we have exchanged it, where necessary, for the older method of Hummel.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Elsewhere, he excelled in Chopin's smaller works, especially the mazurkas, to which he brought unusual lapidary refinement.
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Stiff and unpracticed, Szpilman manages to reprise Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, whereupon the officer stows him in an attic directly above German headquarters and feeds him.
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Becoming George Sand" offers sketchy vignettes of Sand's excursion to Mallorca with the pettish and ailing composer Frédéric Chopin, but these scenes shed no light on Maria's problems, which are based not on passion but on lying.
Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
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Piano poet Frederic Francois Chopin combined them perfectly.
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The first part a brief account of the author Kate Chopin and her masterpiece The Awakening.
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Roman pound was equivalent to 12 ounces, and the _sextarius_ which was the sixth part of a conge, came near to the old Paris chopin, or half a litre.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827
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The Story of an Hour" written by female American writer Kate Chopin is a work of aesthetic value.
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I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
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Horowitz could play Chopin memorably
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When Pachmann plays Chopin the music sings itself, as if without the intervention of an executant, of one who stands between the music and our hearing.
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To me, he plays it as if it were one of the Chopin ballades.
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A compact disk player, rare for its day, fed Chopin and the Rolling Stones into fierce-looking, six-foot MartinLogan speakers.
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Suddenly a Chopin polonaise fills the room, soft and enchanting and so otherworldly that nurses pause on their rounds to listen and some patients take a break from their pain.
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After the Brahms and the Haydn he learned three preludes and fugues of Bach, two Beethoven sonatas, a nocturne by Chopin, and pieces by Schumann and Ravel.
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Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann.
Categorical denials
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Poles embrace Chopin as a national hero.
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In the course of his account of the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse aux pigeons."]
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The name "scherzo" in this connection is to be taken as signifying a play of fancy, rather than an especially playful mood in the sense of mirthfulness; in fact, it is not easy to find a rational explanation of the grounds upon which Chopin named his pieces, especially as between the ballad and the scherzo.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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Ax built this recital around the theme of fantasy, beginning with Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op 61, in which the polonaise is a firmly focused introduction to the meandering that follows.
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She married Oscar Chopin, a Creole, and went to live in New Orleans, Louisiana, spending her summers at Grand Isle, a fashionable resort off the south coast.
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The composer Zdenek Fibich - symphonist, opera composer, melodramatist, and composer of one of the most extended keyboard cycles written since Chopin - would have been l50.
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Her Chopinesque touch brought elegance to the movement's lovely second subject.
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His first record was of the 24 preludes that Chopin published in 1839, and I thought we'd listen to a little bit of the "Raindrop" prelude, which is the most popular one.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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Were it not that we attach, especially since Mendelssohn's time, the idea of lightness and light-heartedness to the word capriccio, this would certainly be the more descriptive name for the things Chopin entitled SCHERZO.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice.
Monsieur Lecoq
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You will have a chopine of ale, Baldy," said he to the old wreck; "sometimes it's all the difference between hell-fire and content, and -- for God's sake buy the bairn a pair of boots!
Doom Castle
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The Mozart shown beneath the Chopin has the same form, using repetition and ending with a recall of the first section.
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This thesis attempts to analyze wifehood, motherhood and selfhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening by feminist criticism.
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He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale".
Country diary: Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire
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With a pastiche of scores by Chopin, Schumann, Shostakovitch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky is a phantasmagoria.
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The music teacher comes twice each week to bridge the awful gap between dorothy and chopin.
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As he played Chopin's D flat Nocturne, its simple song and silken dissonances sounding in the ghostly gloom of the Turbine Hall, no one stirred.
Daniel Barenboim - review
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The volume concludes with concert arrangements of Chopin's Rondo, Op. 16, and five waltzes.
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Previous owners of various manuscripts in the collection include French pianist Alfred Cortot; cellist August Franchomme, a friend of Chopin's; Alma Mahler, the composer's widow; and Russian choreographer and ballet dancer Léonide Massine.
Scores of Scores, From Mozart to Ravel
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Two polonaises rounded off the generous all-Chopin half.
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One Monteverdi Work and 400 Years of Debate music world, besotted with anniversaries and now deep into the Romantic age, will celebrate the bicentenaries of Schumann and Chopin this year.
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Taking on the role of a high society lady as well as wife and new mother, Chopin fit in well with the New Orleans culture.
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It points up his similarities to classical composers like Debussy and Chopin.
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Now, with the blunderbuss business behind him, he turned his mind to several other unusual occurrences in the past few hours, not the least of which was why he had arrived back at the Bijou Theater humming a Chopin berceuse.
Nutrition
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Among the melodists Mr. Isacoff places Schubert, Mendelssohn and Chopin, as well as nonclassical 20th-century performers like Teddy Wilson and Bud Powell, whom he describes with wonderful sympathy.
From Honkytonk To High Art
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LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by pianist Alexander Beresovsky, works by Schumann, Scriabin and Chopin. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.,
Alexandria and Arlington community events, July 1-8, 2010
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Chopin, "the poet of the piano, " was as great an innovation in the pianistic world as Liszt, whose dazzling spectacular virtuosity was the antithesis of Chopin's more refined genius.
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Chopin's Preludes return independence to the hands in order to display a new kind of allusive dialogue between them.
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All artists are androgynous; in Chopin the feminine often prevails, but it must be noted that this quality is a distinguishing sign of masculine lyric genius, for when he unbends, coquets and makes graceful confessions or whimpers in lyric loveliness at fate, then his mother's sex peeps out, a picture of the capricious, beautiful tyrannical Polish woman.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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And noting that Chopin founded whole paragraphs "either on a single phrase repeated in similar shapes or on two phrases in alternation" -- a primitive practice in Polish folksongs -- he asserts that "Beethoven does not attain the lucidity of his style by such parallelism of phraseology," but admits that Chopin's methods made for "clearness and precision ... may be regarded as characteristic of the national manner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Alexandre Tharaud is the latest young piano whizz-kid to establish himself with an album of Chopin pieces, following
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All in all, as the spokesman of Kate Chopin's awakening and awakened women, Edna initiated women's awakening and pursuit of autonomous identity as a woman warrior.
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Kate Chopin is one of and remarkable writers in the world literature.
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His sense of rhythmic freedom, elasticity of phrasing, romantic ardor, and caressing tonal hues set a new standard for the four Chopin Ballades.
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If piano students are playing Mozart and Haydn sonatas, Chopin nocturnes and Debussy preludes, they certainly are capable of playing some chamber music repertoire.
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It's all tone with Chopin -- _tone_, my child, even in the most bravura passages.
Sacred and Profane Love
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Only listened to classical music on the radio or her beloved Chopin on the gramophone.
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The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin
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The ambitious listener might better start from the level of Chopin's melodious piano music, or Grieg's northern elegiacs or Tchaikovsky's gorgeous colorfulness.
Quincy Jones: Arts Education in America
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On such occasions Chopin retired to one of the side-rooms, and when he returned he was irrecognisable.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Other 19th-century examples include mazurkas, nocturnes, and études by Chopin.
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Mention the word ‘étude,’ and compositions by Chopin, Debussy or Czerny may come to mind.
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But the aristocraticalness of Chopin's waltzes is real, not conventional; their exquisite gracefulness and distinction are natural, not affected.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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But so keen for symmetry, for all the term formal beauty implies, is Chopin, that seldom does his morbidity madden, his voluptuousness poison.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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In the past few months I have also been listening a lot to Chopin scheros scherzi?
The Musical Reckoning Cometh: Your favorite tunes vs. your Most Played « The Retort
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She received international acclaim for her interpretation of Chopin.
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The Chopin and Schumann bicentenaries and the Barber centenary have received ample attention this year, but let us not overlook Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who was born in 1710 and lived only 26 years.
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`Then I'd suggest chopinho or maté, depending on your taste.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Schumann wrote that the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz gave Chopin the rhythms for parts of his ballades, although I don't know if anyone can really say exactly which poems.
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He could ensure that her renderings of Chopin études were perfectly in tune whilst remaining ignorant of her equine features.
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There was a good deal of cheering after the final frenetic dash, eliciting as an encore a muddled and unpoetic account of Chopin's delicately arpeggiated Étude in E flat.
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Pulling out the bench and grabbing her sheet music (although she didn't need it), Nicole began to play a nocturne by her favorite composer, Chopin.
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Some pieces are extraordinarily beautiful - not pretty like a Chopin nocturne, but luminous and transparent, as though a whole world of meaning is compressed into every note.
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His discography has included Scriabin, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Milhaud, and Rodrigo.
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His attitude, the attitude of an old and understanding professor, shaking his head musingly as his tender pupils, unmellowed yet in the autumnal fragrances of life, giggle covertly over the pages of Balzac and Flaubert, over the nudes of Manet, over even the innocent yearnings of the bachelor Chopin.
Europe After 8:15
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The dreamy, Chopinesque poetry of the Adagio sostenuto was exquisitely molded.
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His pieces have a simple, homespun character that is notably independent of Western influences, and the large repertory of early 19th-century polonaises, including the earliest attempts by Chopin, owed a good deal to his model.
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Frederic Chopin was a weakly child from the first.
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She uses few raw materials, the most prominent of these being a melancholy, dance-like theme that would not have been out of place in one of Chopin's mazurkas.
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And in December, besides closing out the bicentennial of Chopin with French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, they launch the music, arts and culture of Japan Festival, the second in a bicoastal partnership with the Philharmonic Society of Orange County at Segerstrom Hall and with the participation of venues all across NY and nationwide.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: The Carnegie Hall Youthquake
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Mazurkas, which are supereminently Chopin-ical; that do NOT we.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The valses are the most objective of the Chopin works, and in few of them is there more than a hint of the sullen, Sargasson seas of the nocturnes and scherzi.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Scriabin's early works, until about 1903, are lyrical and effusive, formally inspired by Chopin (waltzes, mazurkas, ballades, preludes, impromptus and scherzos), though where content was concerned his voice was very much his own.
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Years later when Beth played Mozart Sonatas and Chopin Nocturnes, we experimented with putting down the keys in various ways to get the velvety legatos or sparkling staccatos called for in the music.
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Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.
Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves
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Previously I was playing a beautiful prelude in C sharp minor op. 45 by Chopin, a piece that is the quintessence of healing compassion, so my heart was full and my spirit was ready to heal.
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Chopin's Preludes return independence to the hands in order to display a new kind of allusive dialogue between them.
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All Chopin's works involve the piano, solo or accompanied.
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He has the power required for the emotive climaxes of the two ballades, and he can scale his sound back for Chopin's more confessional writing.
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But Chopin, too, fits certain pariah stereotypes: of effeminacy, sickliness, even degeneracy.
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The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
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We met in Caracas and I studied some Chopin at her masterclasses.
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Often, at pedagogy conferences, we witness prodigiously talented fourteen-year-olds taking a master lesson in huge pieces like Prokofiev sonatas or Chopin scherzos.
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The polonaises in C minor, op. 40, and A-flat major, op. 53, only further corroborated the point that Kissin is above all a marvelous Chopin interpreter, on a level which only a handful of his peers attain.
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The author takes the coda of the Chopin F Minor ballade as an example.
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Although Telemann tampered with even basic characteristics of Polish folk music (Chopin would have blanched at the idea of a polonaise in duple time!)
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Kate Chopin portrayed a collection of awakening women in her short stories, who experienced introspection and awakening at a different level concerning love, family, marriage as well as sexuality.
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The Story of an Hour, an early feminist work written by Kate Chopin, is about a woman who experienced sharp emotional changes by the news of her husband's death.
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His speciality is extension of the guitar repertoire, with arrangements of Chopin, Brahms and, particularly, J S Bach.
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The most extraordinary musical evocation is undoubtedly the rendering of a John Cleese prose poem by the Monty Python Team (in the film The Meaning of Life) that tells the life of Cromwell set to the music of a polonaise by Chopin.
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Its singing melodies, rocking accompaniments and romantic harmonies advance the composition of nocturnes from Field to Chopin.
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`Then I'd suggest chopinho or maté, depending on your taste.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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It displays the essence of Chopin's music that surely Fokine desired and rescues it from the sickly sentiment and yards of tulle that Les Sylphides usually heralds.
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Like many writers , American feminist writer Kate Chopin used her stories to ask and resolve questions - in her case, about marriage, motherhood, independence, passion, life and death.
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Bach _Choral Vorspiel_, _Nun Freut euch_, of which I have made an arrangement, and such a composition as the Chopin Prelude Opus 28, No. 3, with its running accompaniment in the left hand.
Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression
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Nowhere, however, is it more disturbing than when the novel's heroine simultaneously plays Chopin on the piano and brings both herself and the man with whom she is living to a state of orgasmic bliss.
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Chopin bicentenaries, Mr. Hobson assembled an ambitious 10-concert series that includes works by both, as well as by composers who influenced them or were influenced by them.
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George Sand's books are full of allusions to Chopin, and from the many that are quoteworthy, the following may be cited from her
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low: —
Ulysses
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Chopin has fallen through dissonance into the abyss - only to curve upward in the third Prelude to a world of unostentatious grace.
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No sooner had the melodious Chopin finished when a newfangled Gershwin song was beating away.
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He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine, and, covered by the noise of outgoing, said low:
Ulysses
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It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Further on I shall attempt -- I write the word with a patibulary gesture -- in a sort of a Chopin variorum, to analyze the salient aspects, technical and aesthetic, of his music.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Years later when Beth played Mozart Sonatas and Chopin Nocturnes, we experimented with putting down the keys in various ways to get the velvety legatos or sparkling staccatos called for in the music.
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Scriabin's youthful compositions reflect to a large degree the influence of Chopin.
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After I wrote a column about Chopin and Schumann, whose bicentenaries are being celebrated this year, and mentioned their use of counterpoint, some readers wrote to me asking: What is counterpoint?
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Mr. Gotthard replied, 'that he had bought the mazurka as Chopin's autograph from a Polish countess, who, being in sad distress, parted, though with the greatest sorrow, with the composition of her illustrious compatriot.'
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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Its singing melodies, rocking accompaniments and romantic harmonies advance the composition of nocturnes from Field to Chopin.
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she played Chopin for her opener
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Also misleading is the author's claim that Chopin was readily accepted in the Parisian salons as a social equal rather than being merely an entertainer.
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And I think something that's special about this particular performance and this mazurka, it points out something that you can find in many places in Chopin's music, which is fascinating to me, and that is this idea that the music sounds like it's off the cuff, and it couldn't be further from the truth.
Chopin With A Polish Touch
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Astounding, enchanting, alembicated, and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.
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The rubato in ‘Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves’ is equivalent to the melodic rubato in Chopin's music, which Hopkins clearly knew and probably tried to play.
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Once, after a Chopin recital, he began shouting out loud in the street.
