2024 PMC Spring Concert: Celebrating Bacewicz & Szymanowski

On March 23, the USC Polish Music Center welcomes to campus the esteemed Verona Quartet, presenting the annual PMC Spring Concert in collaboration with guest pianist and USC Thornton faculty member Bernadene Blaha. Entitled “Celebrating Bacewicz & Szymanowski,” this concert features pioneering female composer and polymath, Grażyna Bacewicz, and the father of Polish modern music, Karol Szymanowski, highlighting how…Continue Reading 2024 PMC Spring Concert: Celebrating Bacewicz & Szymanowski

2021: Remembering Górecki—A Discussion and Film Screening

Watch the broadcast here: www.thorntonlive.usc.edu   On 20 March 2021, the Polish Music Center at the USC Thornton School of Music will recognize the tenth anniversary of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki‘s death last November. Due to pandemic restrictions on public performances, the annual Polish Music Center Spring event will be held online, in a one-time broadcast on…Continue Reading 2021: Remembering Górecki—A Discussion and Film Screening

CANCELLED: PMC Spring Concert: California Dreamin’

This event has been cancelled. Please stay tuned for rescheduled date in Fall 2020.   Event Details Saturday, 28 March 2020 | 4:00 pm California Dreamin’: Celebrating Dianne & Tad Taube’s Transformational Gift feat. Cracow Duo & guests Alfred Newman Recital Hall at USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA…Continue Reading CANCELLED: PMC Spring Concert: California Dreamin’

Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries

Saturday, 23 March 2019 | 4:00 P.M. Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries Concert Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA FREE Admission Campus parking: $12 – Enter campus at Vermont Ave & 36th Pl and park in the Downey Way Structure. Avoid Figueroa Blvd, which will…Continue Reading Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries

2017: Exploring The Avant-Garde feat. gnarwhallaby

Saturday, March 25, 2017 | 4:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public Campus Parking: $12 – enter Gate 3 at Figueroa St. & McCarthy Way (Parking Structure X) On March 25 at 4…Continue Reading 2017: Exploring The Avant-Garde feat. gnarwhallaby

2016: A Tribute to Roman Ryterband

Saturday, April 2, 2016 | 8:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public Campus Parking: $12 – enter Gate 3 at Figueroa St. & McCarthy Way (Parking Structure X) From PMC Newsletter March 2016…Continue Reading 2016: A Tribute to Roman Ryterband

2015: Measures & Frames

Saturday, March 28, 2017 | 7:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public Campus Parking: $12 – enter Gate 3 at Figueroa St. & McCarthy Way (Parking Structure X) Measuring Up To Film From…Continue Reading 2015: Measures & Frames

2014: Polish Jazz Concert

Kaper, Wars & Jarczyk Saturday, March 29, 2017 | 8:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public Campus Parking: $10 – enter Gate 3 at Figueroa St. & McCarthy Way (Parking Structure X) Polish…Continue Reading 2014: Polish Jazz Concert

2013: Sounds from Behind the Iron Curtain

Saturday, April 6, 2013 | 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Ahmanson Center, Room 236 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Registration fee: $25 Includes: Entrance to all presentations, film screenings, exhibits and concerts; Breakfast and lunch Concert with Leszek Możdżer: 4:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see NRH on campus map) Admission: FREE Campus parking: $10…Continue Reading 2013: Sounds from Behind the Iron Curtain

2012: Festival of Premieres

Friday, March 23, 2012| 7:30 p.m. “somewhere very else …” The Polish-Lithuanian Connection Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC, Los Angeles Reception following the concert Saturday, March 24, 2012 | 4:00 p.m. Imaginary Variations & Beyond, a concert of violin and piano works by Debussy, Meyer and Wieniawski Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC, Los Angeles Admission is…Continue Reading 2012: Festival of Premieres