Happy Birthday, Chopin
‘His music seems to fall from heaven,’ says Garrick Ohlsson of Frederic Chopin. As we mark the composer’s 200th birthday, Ohlsson talks to WNYC’s Sara Fishko about Chopin’s influence on classical piano music.
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