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

The Pigeon of Peace in flight from the Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park A remarkable concert takes place today in Hiroshima to commemorate the release of the first atomic bomb on the city on August 6th 1945. I visited the city in February 2019 on a special commemorative project entitled 'Music for Peace'. Below are some extracts, the musical programme for today streamed on Youtube and the remarkable account of Akiko's Piano, arguably the most treasured musical instrument in Japan. Friday  22nd  February 2019  As usual with jet-lag I awoke early at 5.00 am and prepared for the full day ahead. As you can see from the above photo the view from the restaurant was dramatic. You can see the symbolic Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome) in the middle distance. Before the horror that occurred at  8:15:17 a.m. local time on 6 August 1945 when the cruelly named 'Little Boy' was delivered, the building  was  known as the Hiroshima Prefectural Indust...

'Chopin and  His Europe’ Festival  Warsaw, Poland  15-31 August 2020 Chopin and his Europe Festival Website https://festiwal.nifc.pl/en   Programme and Programme Notes https://festiwal.nifc.pl/en/2020/kalendarium We regret to announce that due to the progress of the pandemic in North America, pianists  Garrick Ohlsson  and  Charles Richard-Hamelin  have been obliged to withdraw from the 16th Chopin and His Europe Festival.  As the festival programme (link above) now has full and informative online background historical notes on the genesis of works to be performed by eminent musicologists, this aspect of my reviewing is no longer necessary.  I shall restrict myself mainly to personal assessment of performances Profile of the Reviewer Michael Moran https://en.gravatar.com/mjcmoran#pic-0     The pandemic and seat distancing in the audience, all wearing masks of various hues and patterns, has created a rather melancho...