The ongoing “Distinguished Lectures” series is being offered by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. During 2021, the lectures will be inspired by the opening of the Legacy Gallery, which is an extension of the Core Exhibition of the POLIN Museum. The Legacy Gallery explores the contributions of Polish Jews…Continue Reading Online Lecture on Polish Jewish Music by Prof. Halina Goldberg
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
Nowy Dziennik, the New York City based Polish weekly, featured an extensive interview in Polish with violinist Kinga Augustyn. Published on 14 February 2021, the article entitled Muzyczny świat Kingi Augustyn [The Music World of Kinga Augustyn] begins with a discussion of the two most recent recordings by this Polish virtuosa, who is also a…Continue Reading Augustyn’s Interview
New York Dance and Art Innovations [NYDAI] has posted a video conversation with Marta Ptaszyńska, a distinguished Polish composer living in the United States since the 1970s, on YouTube. Part of the NYDAI “Quarantine Talks,” Ptaszyńska is interviewed by her younger Polish colleague, Jakub Polaczyk, NYDAI’s Vice President and Artistic Director. Ptaszyńska’s wide ranging interview…Continue Reading Ptaszyńska on YouTube
The 25th edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival began 20 March and will continue to offer programming until 2 April 2021. The concerts are live-streamed online to the public. The festival events are also broadcasted by Polish Radio 2. The festival’s theme – “Beethoven and Penderecki. The Sphere of Sacrum” – defines the…Continue Reading 25th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival
Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music welcomed this season with a truly spring-like event: the 8th Krakow Cello Spring. On 21 March 2021, the festival was held online. This annual event, organized by the Cello and Double Bass Department, has gained a significant position and a group of fans over the years. This year, the concerts…Continue Reading 8th Krakow Cello Spring
Bacewicz by Fierro Pianist Nancy Fierro, a longtime PMC friend and a Grażyna Bacewicz expert, recently made another important donation to our library. It includes the piano reduction score and a full orchestral score of Bacewicz’s late work, the 1966 Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (see our Manuscript Collection for information on the manuscript…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: January 2021
A teaser for the new electroacoustic work by Tomasz Jakub Opałka, entitled Party Crasher, is now up online. It features performances on the cello by Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak and the composer on synths, percussion, and trombone. Headphones or a good sound system are recommended for listening, because of the very interesting and loud low frequencies in…Continue Reading Preview of Opałka’s Party Crasher
The first complete edition of six Ballads for piano solo composed by Jadwiga Sarnecka (1873? -1913) has been published by the Eufonium publishing house. This recent edition was based entirely on the composer’s extant manuscripts preserved at the Jagiellonian University Library, which were researched and edited by Marek Szlezer, a Krakow-based pianist and scholar. According…Continue Reading First Complete Edition of Ballads by Jadwiga Sarnecka
“Hear the Future” from Szczecin What will the future sound like? On 16 February 2021, the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin held a conference to explore just that. As part of the campaign “I hear good sounds,” various research perspectives of acoustic ecology—in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, media studies—and in the fields of medicine—otolaryngology and neuropsychology—were…Continue Reading Musicological Conferences in Poland Go Online