The teaming of Canadian singer Wendy Lands with the music of Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman -- the pianist-composer whose story is told in the Oscar-nominated film "The Pianist" -- is one of ...

It's a fleeting scene in "The Pianist," a three-second take in which Wladyslaw Szpilman is seen seated at the piano, penciling in notation on a musical staff. He is doing what he had quite a ...

Roman Polanski's hauntingly realistic film The Pianist tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish Radio who survived the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II through incredible ...

Polanksi "The Pianist" plays powerful song of survival Throughout the trials and tribulations he faces during World War II -- as depicted in Roman Polanski's new film -- Wladyslaw Szpilman refuses ...

In a new performance of The Pianist, based on Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoirs of survival in a Warsaw ghetto, concert pianist Mikhail Rudy has brought together Chopin’s music with Szpilman’s ...

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film The Pianist, go under the ...

According to Agence France Press, the widow and son of Wladyslaw Szpilman said Monday they have won their suit against the author and publisher of a 2010 biography of Polish-Jewish singer Wiera Gran.

BASED on the real-life wartime memoirs of Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman – he was playing live on Polish radio when the German bombs began to drop - this heart-rending, Manchester ...