Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - From the Reviewer's Notebook

Portrait of Władysław Vasa 1595-1648, son of King Sigismund III of Poland, 1596 by The Polish Renaissance artist Martin Kober  (1550-1598) 20th International Chopin and his Europe Music Festival   17th August – 8th September 2024 Introduction, Programme and Reviewer's Notebook http://www.michael-moran.com/2024/08/chopin-and-his-europe-and-rest-of-world.html Reviewer:   https://gravatar.com/mjcmoran?utm_source=hovercard  FESTIVAL PROGRAMME https://festiwal.nifc.pl/en/2024/kalendarium/ The Polish Musical Renaissance  in  Modern Times In March 1946, Winston Churchill delivered an observation in musical, rotund tones: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. The seemingly impossible dream of the independence of Poland as a sovereign nation and accession to the European Union has actually come to fruition. At last what one might