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Left: Andrzej Szpilman: "It was painful for me that people thought of
[my father's] music as only good enough for the Polish market."

Right: Wladyslaw Szpilman in his later years. "In the film, we see
[Poles] helping my father because they knew his Chopin performances,
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Polish market. It's my ambition to
make it popular to a worldwide audi-
ence. That's one way I can honor his
memory."

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ducted the 2001 world premiere of a
piece mentioned in the memoir.
In the book, Szpilman describes a
Gershwinesque Concertino for Piano
and Orchestra he wrote while languish-
ing in the Warsaw Ghetto. "What
struck me was the discrepancy
between the wonderful,
optimistic music and
the terrible conditions
under which it was
written," Green said.
Andrzej Szpilman —
who included the piece
on a CD, Music

When Andrzej Szpilman
began working on reissu-
ing his father's memoir as
The Pianist, he said his
tiij i .% 1 A N
father, then in his late
80s, wasn't interested in
the slightest.
"He said, 'Do whatever
Inspired by the Motion
you want, but no one will
Picture 'The Pianist'—
read it,"' his son recalled.
believes
the breezy
Instead, the book
"Wendy Lands Sings the
Concertino provides
became a critically
Music of The Pianist
clues to his late father's
acclaimed bestseller pub-
Wladyslaw Szpilman," is
psychology.
lished in 20 languages.
a collection of jazzy ditties
So do the upbeat
Wladyslaw Szpilman
songs, featured on the
did agree to help publicize Szpilman wrote from the
1930s to the 1960s.
Lands disc, Szpilman
the memoir by appearing
wrote
during the
at book signings and
Holocaust and the Communist
speaking to readers, the first time his
regime's anti-Semitic purge of 1968.
son ever heard him talk about the war.
"My father didn't like to talk about
"But it was strange," he said. "He
these things, but writing music was his
hadn't read the book in 50 years — in
way of coping," his son said.
fact he never re-read it — but when
he spoke he used the exact same sen-
Wendy Lands Sings the Music of The
tences he'd written in '46. Like the
Pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman and
book, his tone was detached. He
Music Inspired by the Motion Picture
sounded like a computer."
`The Pianist'are available through
Nevertheless, the elder Szpilman was
wvvw.amazon.com. The Academy
pleased when the book drew Polanski's
Awards presentation airs 8:30 p.m.
attention and that of Dr. Noreen
Sunday, March 23, on ABC.
Green, artistic director of the Los
Angeles Jewish Symphony, who con-

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