{"id":16747,"date":"2014-07-28T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2014-07-28T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:50:54","slug":"in-search-of-chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=16747","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16751\" alt=\"Chopin-title\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chopin-title-325x159.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Filmmaker Phil Grabsky (<i>In Search of Mozart<\/i>, <i>Beethoven<\/i> and Haydn<i>,<\/i> <i>Exhibition on Screen<\/i> series) continues his <em>In Search of<\/em> series bringing to cinema screens the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849).<\/p>\n<p><i>In Search of Chopin <\/i>opens on August 21 in selected cinemas nationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Chopin\u2019s grave at the P\u00e8re Lachaise cemetery in\u00a0Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to captivate performers and audiences. The film explores the man who was terrified of public performances, who fled his Polish homeland for Paris never to return, took up with the most notorious transvestite in France, George Sand and rarely gave public performances. Despite a life of ill-health, Chopin wrote some of the most poignant and passionate music ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>Four years in the making, Grabsky talked to musical historian\u00a0Jeremy Siepmann\u00a0to put together this biography which features performances by Leif Ove Andsnes, Lars Vogt, Daniel Barenboim, Ronald Brautigam and Kevin Kenner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>In Search of Chopin<\/i> is narrated by Olivier Award winning star of stage and screen,\u00a0Juliet Stevenson (<i>Truly Madly Deeply, Bend It Like Beckham<\/i>) and David Dawson (<i>Luther, The Thick of It<\/i>) is the voice of Chopin reading his letters out aloud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXb6admf6hA&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Click here to view the trailer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participating cinemas in Sydney and NSW &#8211; check individual websites for details.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chopin Cremorne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orpheum.com.au\/coming-soon?view=movie&amp;movie=O-IN-SEARCH\" target=\"_self\">Cremorne Orpheum<\/a>, <a title=\"Chopin Dendy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dendy.com.au\/Movie\/In-Search-Of-Chopin\" target=\"_self\">Dendy Opera Quays<\/a>, <a title=\"Chopin Dendy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dendy.com.au\/Movie\/In-Search-Of-Chopin\" target=\"_self\">Dendy Newtown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palacecinemas.com.au\/\">Palace Chauvel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palacecinemas.com.au\/\">Palace Byron Bay<\/a>, <a title=\"Chopin Avoca Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avocabeachpicturetheatre.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avoca Beach Picture Theatre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxy.com.au\/\">Roxy Cinema Nowra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaparadiso.com.au\/\">Paradiso Ettalong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Phil Grabsky (In Search of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, Exhibition on Screen series) continues his In Search of series bringing to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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