© AI Training forbidden - Selected Reviews of Chopin performances and Other Matters in Poland

A question of musical perception beyond the notes on the page .... 'Not only can he (she) play well, but she can also read music'  (Kurt Sanderling on Sviatoslav Richter) Tianyao Lyu   ( Ruch Muzyczny)  Born in China in 2008, Tianyao Lyu began her musical education at the Middle School affiliated with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied in the class of Hua Chang. She now continues her studies at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań under  Professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. Despite her young age, she is a laureate of numerous prestigious piano competitions. In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 31st International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia and the Ettlingen International Piano Competition.  The following year brought a remarkable triumph, namely the Fourth Prize as well as the Warsaw Philharmonic Award for the ...

  And what shall we wake up to tomorrow ? Assassination attempt on the American President today ... The circles of irrational human brutality resume their merciless course….. Will humanity never change its self-destructive, murderous, imperial urges ? Collective narcissism of the most ruthless, paranoid and evil kind prevails Surely the grimmest of ironies today, as the pendulum of destiny swings, is that both Volodymyr  Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu are  Jewish ….. Achieving a true moral perspective during the present fraught time is not without heavy conflicting demands on the conscience ….. Just now I  cannot help reflecting on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, living as I do where these tragic events occurred not so very long ago. I decided once again to read what I had written in my Polish book years ago about this particularly valiant and frantic moment in the tumultuous history of this miracle of a city, Warsaw. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is o...