PMC at 40!

In January 2025, the USC Polish Music Center entered its fortieth year of operations on the USC campus in Los Angeles. What began as the Polish Music Reference Center in one small basement room of USC’s Doheny Library in 1985 has since become an internationally recognized institution with worldwide reach located in USC’s Stonier Hall….Continue Reading PMC at 40!

Premiere of Lost Work by Koffler: String Qtet Op. 20

At the end of March, audiences will hear the premiere of a work that was created 90 years ago by Józef Koffler, Poland’s first dodecophonist composer whose life and career were cut short by the Nazis. Details of Koffler’s largely unknown oeuvre are richly discussed in the PMC’s Polish Music History Series No. 8, Józef…Continue Reading Premiere of Lost Work by Koffler: String Qtet Op. 20