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SPRING 2017 Renate Ryan - Secretary Volume XXVII / Number 2 Directors Agustin Anievas, Roberta O The semi-annual magazine of the Chopin Foundation of the United States CHOPIN FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES, INC. Officers & Directors Krzysztof Penderecki - Honorary Chairman Blanka A. Rosenstiel - Founder & President Olga Melin - Vice President Richard Lubman - Treasurer SPRING 2017 Renate Ryan - Secretary Volume XXVII / Number 2 Directors Agustin Anievas, Roberta O. Chaplin, Norman Edelcup, Rosa-Rita Gonzalez, Dr. William J. Hipp, Lorraine Sonnabend TABLE OF CONTENTS Artistic Advisory Committee Dr. Adam Aleksander, Agustin Anievas, Kevin Kenner, Margarita Shevchenko Message from the Founder and President .......................................... 2 Executive Director Chopin Foundation Donors and Contributors ................................... 3 Jadwiga Viga Gewert Message from the Executive Director .................................................... 4 Regional Councils Mack McCray - San Francisco Chopin Council Highlights from 2016-2017 Season ............................................................ 5 Allan Park - Northwest Chopin Council Robert Joskowiak - Virginia Chopin Council 2017-2018 Chopin Foundation Concert Season ................................ 6 Scholarship Committee Dr. Adam Aleksander, Peter Miyamoto, Tian Ying Sponsors .................................................................................................................7 Advisory Board New Acquisition for the Chopin Museum in Warsaw ................. 8-9 Bonnie Barrett - Yamaha Artist Services Joel Harrison - American Pianists Association Chopin Prizes, National & Florida State MTNA Competition ......10 Gary Ingle - Music Teachers National Association Ron Losby - Steinway & Sons Sponsor Highlight .............................................................................................11 International Artistic Advisory Council Folk Influences on the Music of Chopin & Szymanowski........ 12-15 Agustin Anievas, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Jeffrey N. Babcock, John Bayless, Luiz Fernando Benedini, John Corigliano, Ivan Davis, Chopin Foundation Council of San Francisco ...................................16 Christopher T. Dunworth, Charles Dutoit, Nelson Freire, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Gary Graffman, Horacio Gutierrez, Marta Istomin, Byron Janis, James Chopin Foundation Council of the Northwest .................................. 17 Judd, Cyprien Katsaris, Zoltan Koscis, Garrick Ohlsson, Paloma O’Shea, Daniel Pollack, Maurizio Pollini, Abbey Simon, Michael Tilson Thomas, Charles Chopin Foundation Council of Virginia ................................................18 Wadsworth, Susan Wadsworth, Krystian Zimerman International Federation of Chopin Societies ...................................19 Editorial Polonaise is published semi-annually by the Chopin Foundation of the USA Chopin Competition Conference ..........................................................19 1440 79th Street Causeway, Suite 117, Miami, FL 33141 Scholarship Program for Young Pianists ............................................20 Editorial Office: 305.868.0624 • 305.865.5150 (Fax) E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.chopin.org Contributions/Donations ............................................................................21 Publisher: Lady Blanka A. Rosenstiel Executive Editor: Jadwiga Viga Gewert Editor: Barbara Muze, Marketing/Development Manager Contributors: Allan Park, Robert Joskowiak, Mack McCray, Barbara Muze, Helena Houge, Mark Fountain, Beata Paszyc, Lynne Schaefer Cover photo: Chopin Monument by Jacques Froment-Meurice (1906) Design: Rick Tuckerman, Zoom IQ Creative Marketing at Parc Monceau in Paris Copyright © Chopin Foundation of the United States, Inc. All rights reserved. MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goethe’s Faust Forty-five years ago I had a dream. My We must! And we must be steadfast in our efforts to insure that funding is dream was to give American pianists the available to support young American pianists and keep Chopin’s music alive. opportunity to perform Chopin’s music at the highest level. Further, my dream In order to continue our mission we need your help: was to see American pianists supported • Teachers: Please continue to prepare your students to enter the in such a way that they could compete Competition in 2020. The specific guidelines will soon be posted on our on an international level at the Warsaw website and will mirror the rules and requirements for the International Blanka A. Rosenstiel Chopin Competition. This is how the Competition in Warsaw. Everything we do is in support of your students. Founder and President Chopin Foundation was born. To think Please give them the tools they need to succeed. For additional inspiration, that this dream has now been a reality please go with your students to the Chopin Foundation video channel on for forty years is both humbling and inspiring: humbling because so many our website so they can watch performances by the competitors from 2015. like-minded individuals and sponsors have come forward to share in this dream, and inspiring because there has never been a more urgent time for us • Chopin Lovers: Please consider supporting the Chopin Foundation today. to work to keep this dream alive. There are many sponsorship opportunities available for the upcoming Competition: Winners’ prizes, special prizes for the best mazurka, polonaise, In February of 2020, the Chopin Foundation will present the 10th National sonata and concerto - and more. As you can imagine, the cost of the Chopin Piano Competition. It may sound like a long time from now, but Competition is extraordinary, but with your generous contributions, we can believe me, it is closer than we think. Scores of young pianists all across our again help these talented young pianists reach their dreams. Please contact nation are already hard at work to master the technicalities and intricacies of us so we can discuss your sponsorship of the 2020 Competition. the required Chopin repertoire. Teachers are diligently guiding these young hearts and minds to reach their musical goals. For many, the goal will be to Please enjoy this Spring 2017 edition of the Polonaise magazine. We hope get selected to come to Miami in 2020, perform at our competition and earn you find the news and articles of interest. Deepest thanks to our dear a place among our finalists. Then it is off to Warsaw to represent the US on members and supporters. I especially thank Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits an international stage, just like our 2015 first prize winner Eric Lu, who made and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Chaplin for generously sponsoring our Chopin for us proud as a top finalist in front of the whole world. Who will give these All free concert series. Together we can keep the dream alive. incredibly talented young musicians the opportunity to achieve their dreams? Blanka A. Rosenstiel 2 // POLONAISE SPRING 2017 CHOPIN FOUNDATION DONORS AND CONTRIBUTORS whoseWe visionextend and supportour havedeepest helped thanks us this year to with those our mission: to develop the next generation of great musicians! May we continue to add to this esteemed roster others who would join us in support of our mission. * Bruce Mencher * Sheila Brauchler FOUNDER * Avis Lee Neiman * Jasper & Carol Brock Lady Blanka A. 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