How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw.

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The 2025 World Series continues today with Game 2, just one day removed from the Blue Jays’ dominant 11-4 Game 1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The first pitch is slated for Saturday, October ...

Sam Ryder is the latest very special guest in the Radio 2 Piano Room, performing a classic, a new track and a very special Queen cover with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Show more Sam Ryder - Eurovision ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 6:14 p.m. EST (2314 GMT), but local moonrise times ...

This past month, three Oberlin pianists participated in the esteemed 18th Chopin Piano Competition, an international competition held this year from Oct. 2–23 in Warsaw, Poland. Among the participants ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Discover the story behind Rachmaninov’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 2’ which is one of the greatest works in the piano repertoire. Well, it’s pretty obvious. Rachmaninov published his first piano concerto in ...

Even the most highly studied and trained music performers require a little overview before sitting down to play a piece from a legendary composer. It would seem silly for one to attempt to play the ...