- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Translator’s Note
-
1 A Polish Prelude -
2 You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can’t You? -
3 The Faintest Idea -
4 Geniuses of the Right Hand -
5 A Port of Transit -
6 As Melancholic as a Sunset -
7 Which One of the Three? -
8 Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me -
9 The Virtuoso Nomad -
10 An Island of Defaulters -
11 The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather -
12 A Wrong Modulation -
13 The Palms -
14 Your Tempi! -
15 Every Child Brings Its Own Bread -
16 Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes -
17 Shon May and Shon Max -
18 Sensuous Movement -
19 Max and the Shark -
20 The Rebels -
21 The New Woman -
22 Curfew -
23 My Sister the Negress -
24 Spy -
25 Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos -
26 Music Everywhere -
27 Chick Corea -
28 Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber -
29 Mazurka Erotika -
30 The Tumba Queen -
31 End of an Era -
32 Bal Colonial -
33 The Pilgrimage -
34 The Trade Wind in My Ears -
35 The Bastard Son - Glossary
- Sources and Bibliography
- Discography
- Index
A Polish Prelude
A Polish Prelude
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1 A Polish Prelude
- Source:
- The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
- Author(s):
Jan Brokken
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter deals with the reason for the book’s curious subtitle: the presence of eleven Antilleans at the service held in the Warsaw church to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s death in October 1999 where the composer’s heart is kept in an urn, whilst the rest of his mortal remains lie in Paris. The item which Brokken had read in a German newspaper triggered him to start writing the book based on notes he had been taking.
Keywords: Chopin, Church of the Holy Cross, mazurka, pilgrimage, Zelawowa Wola
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Translator’s Note
-
1 A Polish Prelude -
2 You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can’t You? -
3 The Faintest Idea -
4 Geniuses of the Right Hand -
5 A Port of Transit -
6 As Melancholic as a Sunset -
7 Which One of the Three? -
8 Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me -
9 The Virtuoso Nomad -
10 An Island of Defaulters -
11 The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather -
12 A Wrong Modulation -
13 The Palms -
14 Your Tempi! -
15 Every Child Brings Its Own Bread -
16 Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes -
17 Shon May and Shon Max -
18 Sensuous Movement -
19 Max and the Shark -
20 The Rebels -
21 The New Woman -
22 Curfew -
23 My Sister the Negress -
24 Spy -
25 Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos -
26 Music Everywhere -
27 Chick Corea -
28 Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber -
29 Mazurka Erotika -
30 The Tumba Queen -
31 End of an Era -
32 Bal Colonial -
33 The Pilgrimage -
34 The Trade Wind in My Ears -
35 The Bastard Son - Glossary
- Sources and Bibliography
- Discography
- Index
