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Pianists--Defining Chopin.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Pianists--Defining Chopin. DVD. Antoni Wit / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Directed by Tomasz Magierski. Featuring Sean Kennard, Rachel Kudo, Esther Park, Mei-Ting Sun. [New York]: Smoking Mirror Productions, 2006. $240.00.
Tomasz Magierski's excellent documentary about the 2005 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw perfectly captures the joys and sorrows of musical competitions. Focusing on the American contingent of four young pianists, Magierski shows how the competition challenges, thrills, and disappoints them during the thirty-day event.
Interwoven with conservations with Sean Kennard, Rachel Kudo, Esther Park, and Mei-Ting Sun are their rehearsals, performances, and travels about Warsaw, as well as interviews with pianists/teachers Edward Aldwell, Agustin Arievas, Seymour Bernstein, Enrique Graf, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Emilio del Rosario, Ruth Slenczynska, and Susan Starr. Magierski contrasts the innocence of the competitors with the wisdom of their mentors. Bernstein complains that pianists should not be judges at such events because of the possibility of personal agendas. The comments of these veterans balance the unformed personalities of the ...
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...winners of the 7th National Chopin Piano Competition. The four medalists were Mei-Ting Sun, Rachel Kudo, Sean Kennard and Esther Park. Sun, 24, is a student at Juilliard School of Music who won the first prize of $18,000. Kudo, 18, a student at the...
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...Russian studying at the Juilliard School in New York; Sungha Lee, a 22-year-old Korean studying at Oberlin in Ohio; and Esther Park, a 16-year-old Korean studying in the Juilliard Pre-College Division. Each played a complete concerto, with either...
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