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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 May 2001 18:22:35 -0500
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Janice Rosen wrote:

>>Hi everyone, I am looking for examples of Chopin's music that has been
>>adapted by other musicians and given new titles (example: "Fantasie
>>Impromptu").  Can anyone list other examples?

and Walter Meyer answers:

>The Polonaise Heroique became "Till the End of Time"; the Etude in E, Op.
>10, became a popular song the title of which in English I've forgotten, but
>in Europe it was called "La Mer" (sic).

ANd while reading this, I remember a song with the words," I'm forever
chasing rain bows (or raindrops?)" based on a Chopin piece.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University

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