When playing Chopin's music, there is a phrase often heard."Sing more.""Make the melody sing.""Connect it beautifully with ...

“Soyez heureuse” (“Be happy”). Frederic Chopin’s words are written in Maria Wodzinska’s album. They sit under a handwritten transcription of his E-flat-major Nocturne’s opening melody. Like his music, ...

GLENCOE, Ill.—If you didn’t know that it’s Hershey Felder at the piano in “Monsieur Chopin: A Play With Music,” now at the Writer’s Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois, you'd swear that you were watching the ...

In the previous article, I introduced why Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven are treated as special figures in the world of ...

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 ...

Follow Scott Yoo and pianist Jan Lisiecki as they explore Chopin’s life, his Polish roots, and his journey to Paris taking a closer look at the composer's musical evolution and his deep connection to ...

The marathon at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall was half over, and no one seemed to be tiring. By last week 2,760 seat-holders and 100 standees had heard half of the more than 170 piano compositions Chopin ...

For Chinese pianist Wang Zitong, returning to Poland for this performance in September meant renewing a connection forged through Chopin's music a year earlier. It was here, at the 19th International ...