From Betty Harford-Naszódy Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes. Edition Peters, No. 1904 (Herrmann Scholtz, Ed.) Mark Hambourg: “Nocturne in C Minor by Chopin.” [2 pages] Clipping from the Etude Magazine, April 1937 Rowena Gailey, “Why Professional Pianists Practice Slowly.” [1 page] Clipping from the Etude Magazine, April 1937 From Dr. Ewa Muchnick Zephyr Records 70-002: Good…Continue Reading Recent PMC Donations
Two concerts commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II took place on 1 September. At Warsaw’s New Theater, Lidia Zielińska’s composition I don’t like it for ensemble, electronics and choir of young amateurs (2018/2019) was premiered. The work includes sung and recited texts illustrating the escalation of aggression to war from…Continue Reading Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War II
Psychiatrist and concert pianist Richard Kogan is renowned for his lecture/concerts that explore the influence of psychological factors and psychiatric and medical illness on the creative output of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Gershwin, Bernstein, and Joplin. Sharing insight into some of the most creative minds, he opens his audiences’…Continue Reading Music and Medicine: Chopin and the Power of Resilience
Jan Kulma, theater and television director, musician, philosopher, writer, Home Army soldier, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, husband of poet Joanna Kulmowa, and co-founder of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, passed away on 30 August 2019. He was born in 1922. During the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Kulma belonged to the 125th platoon of the second company…Continue Reading Jan Kulma Obituary
The 11th “Music on the Heights” International Chamber Music Festival, organized by the Mieczysław Karłowicz Association in Zakopane, will be held from 7-14 September 2019. The festival’s name refers both to the Tatra Mountains which lie next to Zakopane, the resort town where the festival is held, and is also a reference to the high…Continue Reading 11th ‘Music on the Heights’ International Festival
The 48th Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers’ Union “Borders of Freedom” will take place from 5-7 September at the Leśnik Recreation Centre in Łagów, Poland. In 1949, the infamous congress of composers and music critics met to impose socialist realism doctrine on Polish artists. It was not the first meeting of communist authorities and…Continue Reading 48th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference: Borders of Freedom
The 53rd Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk will take place from 7-13 September. The festival has been organized since 1967 under the honorary patronage of the Minister of Culture. Since 1974, the main program has been accompanied by the “Youth Stage” Competition which features talented young pianists. Since 1975, the festival has also hosted the…Continue Reading Witkacy Premiere & 53rd Polish Piano Festival
The premiere of the new album Polish Landscape by the ensemble Les Femmes took place on 8 September at the St. I. Witkiewicz Theatre in Zakopane as part of the Music on the Heights Festival.The album is an anthology of Polish vocal lyrics from the last 150 years that speak to the experiences and emotions…Continue Reading Premiere of Polish Landscape by Les Femmes
The 19th Music Gardens Festival was held from 30 June – 28 July in the Grand Courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, under a huge, air-conditioned tent that accommodated 1000 spectators. Every year since 2001, the Festival program rebroadcasts the best opera and ballet productions, live symphonic and chamber concerts, music films and film…Continue Reading 19th Music Gardens Festival
The 15th Festival of Polish Music was held from 5-20 July in Kraków. Founded in 2005 by the Polish Music Association – a group of musicologists, culture managers and music lovers – the essence of the festival is not only to present valuable works by Polish composers written from the Middle Ages to the present…Continue Reading 15th Festival of Polish Music