{"id":35353,"date":"2005-06-10T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/06\/10\/maintaining-high-standards-at-the-international-frederic-chopin-piano-competition\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T09:02:23","slug":"maintaining-high-standards-at-the-international-frederic-chopin-piano-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050610-23\/?p=35353","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining high standards at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The quintennial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konkurs.chopin.pl\/index_en.html\"> International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition<\/a> will be held later this year, and I was reminded that the awards for &#8220;Best performance of a mazurka&#8221; and &#8220;Best performance of a concerto&#8221; have not been awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopin.pl\/imprezy\/konkursy\/c11.html\"> since 1985<\/a>. Simply put: Nobody since 1985 has been good enough to deserve it. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopin.pl\/imprezy\/konkursy\/c13.html\"> The year 1995 was a particularly bad year for Chopin-lovers<\/a>. The judges for Competition XIII concluded that none of the 130 entrants deserved <strong>any<\/strong> of the four big-name prizes. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First prize &#8211; not awarded. <\/li>\n<li>Best perfomance of the mazurkas &#8211; not awarded. <\/li>\n<li>Best performance of a polonaise &#8211; not awarded. <\/li>\n<li>Best performance of a concerto &#8211; not awarded. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (This wasn&#8217;t the first time the judges refused to award first prize. It happened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopin.pl\/imprezy\/konkursy\/c12.html\"> five years earlier<\/a> as well.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quintennial International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition will be held later this year, and I was reminded that the awards for &#8220;Best performance of a mazurka&#8221; and &#8220;Best performance of a concerto&#8221; have not been awarded since 1985. Simply put: Nobody since 1985 has been good enough to deserve it. The year 1995 was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-35353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The quintennial International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition will be held later this year, and I was reminded that the awards for &#8220;Best performance of a mazurka&#8221; and &#8220;Best performance of a concerto&#8221; have not been awarded since 1985. Simply put: Nobody since 1985 has been good enough to deserve it. The year 1995 was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}