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Chopin: 1 Composer, 2 Centuries, Many Picks
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Michael Ricci
The classical music world, embarked on a bicentennial tour through the Romantic era, is just now preoccupied with the melancholic master Frdric Chopin, born near Warsaw in 1810.
Beloved by pianists for his abundant legacy, he is cherished by countless others for the teeming worlds of color and emotion he conjured. The classical music critics of The New York Times have combed through the many recordings devoted to Chopin and selected their favorites.
Anthony Tommasini
HOROWITZ PLAYS CHOPIN, VOL. 1 ...
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App Brings Centuries of Great Art to the iPad
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Michael Ricci
The iPad makes a perfect coffee table book and photo browser but a new application called Art Authority sends the touchscreen interface back through centuries of humanity's finest imagery. Built by 1980's Apple engineer Alan Oppenheimer, Art Authority is a beautiful way to get some art education and ponder the human condition while flipping through more than 40,000 historic works of art on your iPad. Oppenheimer calls the app a public domain and web art browser. It makes good use ...
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