9th Day - Tuesday (wtorek)

Today we're going on a tour with the metro. This is what the subway network of Warsaw looks like:

You could call it quite clear ;-)

Once you're inside, you can't help but be amazed...

..mind you, this is not a planetarium!

Fryderyk Chopin or Frédéric Chopin?

At least I wanted to finally clarify that today. So I went to the Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina. Here are the facts:

Chopin was born in 1810 in the village of Żelazowa Wola, about 50 km west of Warsaw, so he is clearly a native Pole, so Fryderyk Chopin.

During the November Uprising of 1830, the Poles fought against the Russian occupiers and Chopin happened to be in Paris and stayed there. Returning to Warsaw was too dangerous. So he lived in exile in France. Hence, Frédéric Chopin.

If you want to pronounce Chopin correctly, in Polish, you intonate it like an Englishman, short and concise, 'shoppin''. Fryderyk before that, please short and concise. So: 'Fridrik Shoppin'. That's correct.

Here is an original composition by Fryderyk:

Ah, yes..

The Fryderyka Chopina didn't really convince me, actually not at all, except maybe

The best thing is actually outside the museum, namely Chopin as graffiti on a house wall:

Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. Witolda Lutosławskiego

But the day is not over yet. Now we're going far out of downtown Warsaw with the M1 line:

You can already see it from a distance..

..and just in time into the Great Broadcasting Hall, Studio 1 of

The bell in the foyer is already reminding me...

Wow..

The choir is forming up..

Choir, orchestra, soloists, conductor..

A giant sound body!

The following was played:

The occasion was probably the visit of the London Chorus. The high voices a bit dusty, but in the audience there were also not the youngest anymore..

Picture of the day

Blunder of the day

Fortunately, I didn't make this mistake: mistaking Chopin for a Frenchman.

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