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545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

Released Saturday, 24th November 2018
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545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

545 Optimism in Armenia; Finding Chopin's Piano

Saturday, 24th November 2018
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian describes the new positive spirit he encountered during his recent travels in Armenia, whose citizens have earned good reason to feel upbeat about their future. And composer Paul Kildea explains how Frederic Chopin's sublime 24 Preludes — written on a clunky mini-piano in an abandoned monastery in the middle of the Mediterranean — changed how the world hears music.

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