69th Duszniki-Zdroj Chopin Festival August 1-9 2014
Click on photographs to enlarge - far superior rendition The spectre of Fyrderyk Chopin always haunts the feast of music and pianism on offer at Duszniki Zdroj * * * * * * I shall be covering this year's festival in my customary fashion. The Artistic Director Piotr Paleczny has assembled an outstanding group of pianists for our refined pleasure and spiritual enhancement in this increasingly heartless world where children are murdered wholesale in various pits and slaughterhouses in wars beyond my understanding. The veneer of our achieved 'civilization' is wafer thin. A platitude perhaps but true nevertheless... This was written before the horrors...