The 19th Chopin Competition ended at 2.30 today. The results were announced... and there was a deep distaste. Not for the level of playing artists, but for the choice of a broad commission. Adam Rozlach in Radio 1 and his podcast expressed the following:
– The 19th Chopin Competition was won by Eric Lu - a pianist whose many observers, critics did not see even in the second or subsequent stages of the Competition. [...]
– Eric Lu frequently played a bad sound, insecurely, he was indisposed during the hearings, and he was transferred to phase III. During all the stages, he was not mentioned as a candidate for awards [...].
– There was talk for it, and a lot, about 17-year-old Chinese pianist Tianyao Lyu; there was talk about the fantastic nipponese Shiori Kuwahara; they both won the 4th prize ex aequo. There was quite a few talk about the charismatic - according to many - pianist David Khrikuli from Georgia; and he was not even mentioned erstwhile announcing the results, even though Jury awarded him a distinction. There was much and good talk about William Yang of the USA and Vincent Ong of Malaysia, who won the 6th and 5th prize; the last ex-aequo with Pole Piotr Alexewicz.
– He lost the Contest, lost Chopin due to the fact that the closest to the essence of this music, mentioned both Ladies of the 17-year-old - Tianyao Lyu and 30-year-old Shiori Kuwahara, were outside the podium.
– During the announcement of the results Eric Lu looked very amazed – so he joined us, in the absolute majority affected by this verdict, I'll add that for long minutes we couldn't recover, we were speechless... However, he was happy – despite the late period and was already 2.30 – with the American president of Jury Garrick Ohlsson. On the another hand, those who stood behind him were inactive judging pianists this year, looking very powerfully disgusted...(]]>https://www.facebook.com/adam.rzach/posts/chopino competitions-adam-rzach-win%C5%82-competitions-lose%C5%82-chopin-sta%C5%82a-si%C4%99-March/25081624308133800/]]>).
Culture should not have any doors closed, vice versa, everywhere it must have unlimited access, due to the fact that it expresses human freedom, reflection and way of self-defense against the brutality of the planet in which man is found. For all culture is simply a one-time experience and passport of all nation or social group on the journey of all of us towards the future; it is simply a contribution to the universal cultural accomplishment and a way of knowing not only of man, but besides of the planet around us. So all culture brings with it priceless information and knowledge. On the another hand, erstwhile politics comes into its area with its money, with a projection of bribery, mongrity and selling, everything starts to change and collapse. Each culture must so defender its limits of decency, its copyright and its oxygen, which allows it to live and develop. Each culture must have its symbolic pattern with Sevre. Therefore, releasing the function of the president of the jury of the 19th Chopin competition from Polish hands was a mistake. And there is nothing to do here about nationalism, egoism, etc.; Chopin, although he had a French name, was an expressor of Polish culture and as a Pole is known all over the world. So, damn it, let's yet learn to respect what we have. due to the fact that in a fewer years we can say with surprise that Chopin was just as commercialized as John Paul II, and what is worse, there will be any who will begin to question with expanding force the Polish uniqueness of Chopin and to proclaim that he was European. It does not substance that it is more popular in Asia than in Europe, but it is crucial that it will not represent Polish culture.
Of course, Chopin, from a cultural point of view, belongs to planet culture. Everyone can hold their Chopin competitions, on their own responsibility, but if in the home country in which she was born and from which she drew juice, she will be soiled, defiled, according to modern trends, then there will be nothing left of Chopin. Just as present there is not much left of the thought of John Paul II. We gotta halt this stupid circus. Let us start utilizing the fact that Chopin was so popular in the planet as a Pole. We have the same right as He. Let us begin building our cultural policy, which is not on the hands of blood, as in the time of the Jagillons, not the Piasts (until the time of Kazimierz the Great). The Piasts present are a warning, the Jagillons should be a model, but 1 that takes into account the modern geopolitical political arrangement. If we take these conditions into account, our state policy will stand on its feet.
