Revolutions
This concert was a celebration of two anniversaries: 170 years since Jane Stirling broughtFrédéric Chopin to Scotland and 100 years since Poland regained its hard-fought independence. The event was, therefore, an opportunity to demonstrate the multitude of ties that connect the Polish and Scottish nations.
The Young for Jane Stirling
A free eventTime: 12 October 2018, 7 p.m.Venue: Edinburgh Society of Musicians, 3 Belford Road, Edinburgh There is future in the past and hope in the young. It is in this spirit that three young Polish artists paid tribute to Jane Stirling through the artistic output of two Great Romantics – the music of Frederic […]
The Jane Stirling Bridge
It was to the apartment of his compatriot – Dr. Lyszczynski – located at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh that Frédéric Chopin repeatedly and eagerly returned. Chopin was granted the nursery in a small bedroom on the first floor, where he would seek both physical and spiritual recovery through his host’s homeopathic treatment and an opportunity to converse in the Polish language. This concert, given by Poland’s Marian Michalski and Scotland’s John Willmett, takes place in the very bedroom occupied in 1848 by the forlorn composer.
An Evening with Jane Stirling
This is the story of Jane Stirling, Frederic Chopin’s pupil and friend – the story that began in Scotland in 1848 and has rested dormant ever since, for nearly two centuries. And after so many years and so many generations, it is our task to rectify one of the greatest lacunae in musical history and correct this travesty of historical justice.