© AI Training forbidden - Selected Classical Music in the Poland of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

Here where I live in Poland there is a  intense  renewal of  the public expression of love and devotion to this great Polish religious figure, one of the rare world famous Polish historic beings apart from Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Paderewski, Madame Curie and possibly General Sikorski.  Large television screens have been set up in squares in the cities throughout the country where people have come together to watch the unprecedented simultaneous canonization of these two popes in Rome, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. This unique ceremony performed by the equally unprecedented presence of two living Popes, Pope Francis and the Emeritus Pope Benedict.  Here i n Warsaw i nstead of a number of cliched, no doubt platidudinous observations on my part after standing in the misty damp among crowds of an early spring morning, I will let Pope Francis speak in superior words of great...

Cockpit of a 1924 Bugatti Type 35 In case you think I have gone quiet for a serious reason, you might like to click on this link where I have been indulging my other passion - classic car racing. http://casualcars.blogspot.com/2014/04/72nd-members-meeting-of-goodwood-road.html Toodle pip!

For the 10th International Paderewski Piano Competition  November 6th -20th, Bydgoszcz, Poland www.michael-moran.org/blog  Ignacy Paderewski starring in the innocent, wonderful and lyrical film Moonlight Sonata (1936)  Ignacy Jan Paderewski (18 November 1860 - 29 June 1941) And so the lead up to the IX International Paderewski Piano Competition begins in earnest for me at least when I go to Bydgoszcz on October 24th for the technical briefing. The young pianists have been preparing for months if not years.  And what is the Paderewski connection with Bydgoszcz? In 1918 the 58-year-old composer spent some time on the platform of the Bydgoszcz railway station, walking, stretching his legs and smoking cigarettes. This is the only confirmed episode which unexpectedly turned into a huge Bydgoszcz myth becoming the permanent brand of this city situated on the Brda river. As Paderewski was considered in a similar way to Einstei...