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Poland - Five Major Ways in which the country has changed since my first encounter in early 1992

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  5 Ways Poland Has Changed A recent interview I had with Patrick Ney in Warsaw  Patrick Ney is  the outstanding YouTube host of the TFN feature series  'Heart of Poland'  The interview with me deals with Five Major Ways in which Poland has changed since my first encounter with this country in early 1992 https://youtu.be/pP1rQbvQDyw Patrick is  a digital content creator and social media personality  with ' The First News' (TFN) .  This online journal aims to bring readers entertaining, engaging and informative news, features and reportage from across Poland and beyond https://www.thefirstnews.com/page/about-us
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Dimitry Ablogin - Warsaw recorded CD of the Late Works of Chopin Op.45-64 played on Chopin's last Pleyel of 1848 (Chopin Museum) - 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'

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The last  Pleyel  14810 piano of 1848 played by Fryderyk Chopin in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum Warsaw    Endymion (1818)   John Keats (1795-1821)   A Poetic Romance (excerpt) BOOK I   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. One may wonder why in Warsaw I open an important music review of a recording of the music of Chopin played on his last Pleyel piano with a quotation from the immortal English poet John Keats. In the domain of music, the poem arouses a singularly appropriate emotional feeling in my heart. This is one of the most significant recordings one can imagine in these benighted times of human barbarity.  I have always found Keats similar in tender yet passionate poetic temperament to Fryderyk Chopin. The last instrument used by the composer, resting now in the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, was r
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