Sunday: When, in 2002, doctors at New York's Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center removed an aggressive tumor from Janina Fialkowska's left arm, they thought the superb Canadian-American pianist would never play professionally again. But they didn't divulge this dark prognosis to their patient, who, in one of the great stories of musical rebirth, fought her way back. Her season-ending all-Chopin program at the Frederic Chopin Society, billed as a tribute to her mentor Arthur Rubinstein (and closely tracking her recent CD on the Atma label), should be one of the summits of this Chopin bicentennial year. (3 p.m. Sun. Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, 130 Macalester St., St. Paul. $12-$20. 612-822-0123, or www.chopinsocietymn.org.) LARRY FUCHSBERG
Classical music spotlight: Janina Fialkowska at Chopin Society
Pianist recovered from surgery to remove tumor on her arm.
May 1, 2010 at 6:38PM
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Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours.
