Posts Tagged ‘chopin’
On the trail of . . . Chopin in Mallorca
June 20, 2020
For decades I’d read about an abandoned 13th. century Carthusian monastery to which Fryderyk Chopin and his lover George Sand retreated, far away from the prying eyes of Parisian society. The atmosphere it evokes, both from Sand’s pen and from a number of biographers, sounded so quintessentially romantic. Legend has it that while staying in […]
2020 | Uncategorized | Tags: Carthusian monastery, chopin, consumption, George Sand, Janina Fialkowska, Majorca, Mallorca, Maurice Sand, Solange Sand, Son Vent, Stephen Hough, Un hiver à Majorque, Valldemossa, Winter in MallorcaComments (2)
I am not suited to give concerts
August 15, 2011
“I am not suited to give concerts. The crowd intimidates me. I feel asphyxiated by its eager breath, paralyzed by its inquisitive stare, silenced by its alien faces.” No, that’s not Glenn Herbert Gould speaking after he quit the concert platform in 1964. It’s a 25 year-old Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, speaking to Franz […]