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Mashayekhi’s vision of multiculturalism encompasses a wide variety of approaches. In “Avec Chopin”, he uses quotations from various pieces of Chopin and from his own works. He also makes changes in Chopin’s music which are reminiscent of Mashayekhi’s music and vice versa. This composition starts with atonal arpeggios that evolve into Chopin’s A-minor Waltz, but written in Mashayekhi’s style, which then evolve into the closing chords of the piece. In this composition we hear phrases from Chopin’s E-minor and A-minor Waltzes and C-minor Ballad. From Mashayekhi’s music we have quotations from Sonate I, Kristall I and Etude No. 15.