Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 3 News Flash Penderecki Wins A Grammy Award for “Credo” The 2001 “Grammy” awards given by the American Academy of Recording Arts for best recordings of popular and classical music have recently been announced. The jurors confirmed the high standing of Krzysztof Penderecki, whose Violin Concerto No. 2 in a rendition by…Continue Reading March 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 2 News Flash 2001: National Philharmonic Turns 100! The 100th anniversary year of the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra began with a concert featuring Emanuel Ax in a Piano Concerto by Chopin and Wieslaw Ochman as a soloist in the “Harnasie” ballet of Szymanowski. The evening’s program commenced, of course, from a…Continue Reading February 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 1 News Flash 2001: The Year Of Paderewski The Polish Sejm (Parliament) proclaimed the year 2001 as the “Year of Paderewski” – thus honoring the great pianist, composer, statesman and humanitarian on the 60th anniversary of his death in June, 1941.You may read an essay about his life and music by…Continue Reading January 2001