In this SundayArts Profile, we are treated to an excerpt from Chopin’s Polonaise Fantasy, Opus 61, performed by Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Benjamin Hochman.

Christina Ha reports on what's happening in museums, galleries, and performance spaces around town, including Neoclassicism and Expressionism at Neue Galerie, The Chopin Project at Alice Tully Hall, and Alfred Stieglitz in New York.

The other day, I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1, performed live on a nineteenth-century Corning Steinway piano. As Igal Kesselman, the pianist, made his way through that nocturne’s melancholy, stormy, and contemplative sections, in the background a woman checked out a flouncy silver-grey dress on the racks at Ann Taylor. [...]