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Music: Haydn and everything after

by Paul Wells on Thursday, November 4, 2010 1:57pm - 0 Comments

Two episodes from my occasional attempts to figure music out, and share my discoveries with the curious:

• From the magazine, my article about the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In six days in the Polish capital I heard 13 hours of Chopin’s music in live performance. If you start playing the Polonaise-Fantaisie I can now hum along.

• From the National Arts Centre, a recording of a talk I gave before the Sept. 22 concert of the NAC Orchestra. The occasion was the launch of the orchestra’s week-long Mozart-Haydn Festival, so my talk was about the friendship between Mozart and Haydn. Obviously the audience for such a thing is not vast, but I’m as proud of this talk as I am of anything else I did this year.

Having exhausted the escape routes, I now plan to focus more on Parliament and Canadian politics, at least until the new year.

Tags: Chopin, Haydn, Mozart

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bergkamp

"Having exhausted the escape routes, I now plan to focus … "

Must be difficult to face. After Perimeter Institute and Mozart/Haydn/Chopin, the numpties we have in Parliament at the moment aren't all that interesting or exciting and must be extremely difficult to write about.
Claudia Lemire

No, focus on Mozart and Haydn, it might be a small audience but one that will appreciate it very much!
http://getdownwithjulianbrown.blogspot.com/ j brown

thanks for that, i hope you do more of these talks.
Santa Maria

Is Paul Wells somebody's kept man? Who is paying him to take the year off?

Kaplan

Quiet, you. Paul Wells is no doubt busy gathering reams of research and evidence on a matter of great national importance. We'll see it soon, no doubt.