![]() My Life in Music is out now on Decca Classics in conjunction with Universal Music Australia. The album also features music from composers such as Debussy, Grieg and Bach, who all provide memories of her beloved piano mentors and teachers. She would subsequently earn a reputation as one of the most celebrated Chopin interpreters of her time. Science doesn't know enough about the brain to make sense of Alma. Slenczynska’s album, My Life in Music, explores the music of Chopin, a composer who had a heavy influence on the young pianist’s childhood.Īccording to her memoir, Forbidden Childhood, Slenczynska was made to practise all 24 Études before breakfast every morning by her father, Josef Slenczynski, who was a skilled violinist. By Scott Pelley Novem/ 7:36 PM / CBS News We cannot explain what you are about to hear. A 12-year-old piano prodigy (played strikingly by actual piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) battles his parents' expectations (and his own) as he attempts to find his way in the world. ![]() Read more: World’s oldest conductor, a 103-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor, leads the US Air Force Band Next month she will be celebrating her 97th birthday with a recital at Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, on 6 February. Beethoven Sonata #31 in A flat major, Op 110ĭuring lockdown, Slenczynska uploaded videos of herself performing Beethoven sonatas to YouTube, to celebrate the German composer’s 250th anniversary.ĭespite her age, the pianist is still an active performer and most recently played at Chopin International Festival and Friends in October 2021 in the Polish Embassy in New York.
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