![Stories From The Eastern West show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/077/077/small/stories-from-the-eastern-west.png)
Summary: As a young man, Paderewski was determined to do something about his country's plight. It had been completely wiped off the map almost a century earlier, and as the 19th century came to a close, an independent Poland seemed impossible. Using rifles and sabres to win freedom clearly wasn’t going to be enough. A different kind of weapon had to be found. For Paderewski, this weapon would be music...