Chinese pianist Lang Lang kicked off a worldwide salute to Frédéric Chopin in the composer's native Poland Thursday night with a Warsaw Philharmonic concert that launched yearlong anniversary celebrations. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Polish-French composer, and the accomplished 27-year-old Lang performed some of Chopin's most famous works during the concert, which was broadcast live on Polish television.
Approximately 2,000 events — spanning concerts and recitals, competitions, exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings and theatrical shows — are slated to take place across a host of cities around the world this year to celebrate the bicentennial of the Romantic maestro's birth.
Read more:http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/01/08/chopin-anniversary-bicentennial.html
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