Here’s the next Chapter of Lost and Found….
The writing is still not moving along the way I’d like. I do manage to squeak out some new words most every day, but I need to be writing many more words each day than I am. I’m not sure why I’m procrastinating as much as I am, but I do need to figure this out. Finishing this book soon has become very important.
The Chapter today will leave you “hanging” — something I do enjoy doing as I finish a Chapter. I know in my own reading, I love it when the author makes flipping to the next page so vital to sanity. Of course, with a serialized writing like this, I guess it’s possible I may by ticking you all off!! 
I hope not.
Be well — be in peace,
Ron Rink
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I was learning pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and the composer who would become my favorite, Frederick Chopin. Chopin was becoming a favorite not only of mine, but also of many of the young people and adults during that year.
There was a hit movie which came out in 1945 called, “A Song to Rememberâ€. Everyone was enjoying this movie. Cornell Wilde played the role of Chopin. It co-starred Paul Muni as Chopin’s teacher, and Merle Oberon as George Sand, with whom Chopin had a famous liaison. This lavish musical biography followed the life of Chopin from his humble beginnings as a child prodigy in Poland. Later, the Czarist rule in Poland led the 22-year-old Chopin and his music teacher to flee to Paris. However, Chopin fell in love with the writer George Sand and, instead of performing in Europe as originally planned, he went off with her to Majorca.
Even though Chopin was gravely ill by this point in his life, his political convictions became so important to him he decided to do a concert tour as a way to raise money for the liberation of Poland.
This movie had something for everyone, but especially the younger people. They loved it. It had romance, intrigue, joy, sorrow, and above all, the music of Chopin. Although the directors of the movie did a great job of making it look like Cornell Wilde was actually doing the playing, the famous pianist, José Iturbi, played all the piano performances. His recording of the signature piece from this film, Polonaise in A Flat, sold over a million copies.
In a surprising and indirect way, this movie also played a major role in my own level of importance among my peers. One of the pieces that Miss Thomas and I had been working on over the past several months was that same Polonaise in A Flat that was so prominent in the movie.
Although I hadn’t perfected the piece, I did have it almost completely memorized.
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well, guess i have to go find Polonaise in A flat. I like Chopin a lot too. I remember going with my mother to Hudson’s when they still had listening booths and she bought a Chopin record. The cover was green with figures on it. I was elementary school age.
“A Song to Remember.” I fell in love with both that movie and Chopin the very first time I viewed/listened to it, I was probably eleven or twelve at the time and it made a huge impact on my love of music (Cornell Wilde wasn’t too bad, either). Oh, but to look like Merle Oberon…
Chopin’s may have been one of the first classical albums I bought.
Both of my kids played Chopin too. They preferred the nocturns. Here’s a video of Horowitz playing the Polonaise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvqvZOtCF0 It’s certainly one of his most famous pieces.
I’d love to see that movie. We should have a movie night!