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"If it's Tuesday, it must be Szczecin..."
Online Polish newspapers have revealed a few more of their secrets about Bolet's tour in May/June 1961. New cities and dates have been...
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Oct 30, 20241 min read
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A rainy-season in Namibia: 1976
Jorge Bolet's recital in Windhoek, South West Africa was actually on 2 February, not 6th, so there is some mixup in his datebook. The ...
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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Jorge Bolet: Buenos Aires review 1979
In ClarÃn , 25 July, 1979, Jorge D'Urbano - who had reviewed Jorge's first appearance in Argentina in June 1955 - wrote: 'Jorge Bolet is...
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Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Teatro Colón
Jorge Bolet's only appearance in the fabled opera house in Buenos Aires was on Saturday, 21 July 1979. The programme consisted of...
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Oct 17, 20241 min read
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"Musical Pumpkin Spiced Lattes"
The Piano Files on Patreon has posted a little challenge. Jorge Bolet plays 'In Autumn' in recordings from 1952 and 1987. "To celebrate...
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Oct 11, 20241 min read
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Jorge Bolet recalled in 1981
Jorge Bolet recalled by a Spanish friend from a meeting in 1981; I believe the friend to be Ramón Rodamiláns Vellido (Spanish, with...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Jorge Bolet in Rhodesia, February 1976
I've been looking at The Rhodesia Herald in the British Library. Quite a hard-hitting, critical review. Having now to get used to...
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Sep 20, 20242 min read
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Stokowski
12 & 17 October 1971 Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City. Jorge mentions a brief lapse of memory on the conductor's part,...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Newspaper reports from South Africa
Various reports of JB’s South African tours on 1973, 1976 and 1980 from the Afrikaner newspaper  Die Transvaler  have been added.
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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JB in Chile
Delighted confirm Jorge Bolet DID play in Chile (I had thought he hadn’t) June, 1983 in Chile, with Juan Pablo Izquierdo (born Santiago...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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