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Christ Church, Malvern will house the Jenny Lind Gala Concert produced by Icons of Europe for Malvern Civic Week 2013.Chopin masterpieces
Jenny Lind
Gala Concert
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13 July 2013: Music with a story
Chopin - a section cut from Delacroix' double-portrait of Chopin and George Sand (at Louvre).Book 2003 by Cecilia and Jens Jorgensen
Chopin and The.Swedish Nightingale
Chopin's life seen through his letters
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Inscription in the book by WHO's Director-General.
Recommended by Chopin in the World.  It marks 2003 as.the starting point for Icons of Europe's subsequent investigative research of Chopin and Jenny Lind.
Musical anniversaries in 2013
Reviving the legacy of Jenny Lind
Wagner and Verdi 200 years

 Photo of Richard Wagner (1813-1883) in 1871 at Icons of Europe's portal commemorating Wagner's 200-year anniversary in 2013. Source: Wikipedia.At Icons of Europe's portal for Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). He was a giant of the opera world and his popularity is enduring.



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Both composers crossed the life of the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind.  It is well known that Verdi wrote an opera for her, but not published that Wagner did as well.  A whole chapter of the new book Le Ręve de Chopin will reveal Jenny Lind's artistic relationship with Wagner.
Etching of Fryderyk Chopin by Teofil Kwiatkowski; from Frederick Niecks' biography of Chopin.Jenny Lind's romance with
Fryderyk Chopin

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Since 2001, we have paid tribute to many Icons: (back-button to return)
HCA 2005 | Chopin 2010 | Liszt 2011 | Lind 2012
Bernadotte 2013 | Wagner 2013 | Verdi 2013
Einstein 2014 | Shakespeare 2014 | Wilde 2014		 The Oscar statuette, designed 1928, presented for the first time in 1929, officially named 'Oscar' in 1939. Was its name not inspired by Oscar Wilde?The Oscar statuette:
Must be Oscar Wilde!
Was the famous Academy Award statuette, created by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer in 1928-1929, inspired by Oscar.Wilde?  >>.More		 The Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto, the venue of the Canadian premiere of "The Composer and The Nigtingale" in 2005.Musical drama

 Chopin and The Nightingale by Icons of Europe:  staged at Brussels Warsaw Toronto New.York (2003-2008).		 Icons of Europe: This 'Chandos portrait' of supposedly Shakespeare (1564-1616) is named after James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos, an early owner.Shakespeare

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Sřren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author. Sřren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) at 200:  “Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air”, says Gordon Marino.

Lang Lang, the Chinese virtuoso pianist in conversation with Icons of Europe.
Lang Lang, the Chinese virtuoso pianist in conversation with Icons of Europe.

On 12 March 2012, Chinese pianist Lang Lang
answered via Royal Albert Hall a question by
Icons of Europe's co-founder Jens A. Jorgensen
who in turn responded:  « In reply to my Q3,
your Music Foundation says it all:  "Music makes
life better. It heals, unites and inspires". »


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