2015 in Review – Festivals
The UK premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem inspired a four-day festival of Polish culture held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The Seven Gates:… Read more »
2015
2015 in Review – Publications
In collaboration with William Smialek, former PMC Director Maja Trochimczyk wrote the 2nd Edition of Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide for the Routledge Music Bibliographies… Read more »
2015 in Review – PMC Donations
The month of December encourages world-wide a Holiday spirit of gift-giving, and this year especially the Polish Music Center found itself on the receiving end… Read more »
2015 in Review – Recordings
The first concert played by the Warsaw National Philharmonic in its hall, newly-reconstructed after war-time destruction, was given on Feb 21, 1955. The recording of… Read more »
2015 in Review – Premieres
The late Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Symphony No. 4 “Tansman Episody”— the final version was orchestrated by Górecki’s son, Mikolaj Górecki—had its US Premiere on Jan 16-18, 2015… Read more »
2015 in Review – PMC News
For two weeks in February, Jan Kalinowski and Marek Szlezer from the Kraków Music Academy conducted extensive research in the Polish Music Center’s Zygmunt and Luisa Stojowski Collection. On February… Read more »
2015 in Review- Performances
2015 began with one-time performances of two rarely heard but groundbreaking operas, presented by the Poznań Opera Theatre. The first was Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Portrait, presented at… Read more »
2015 in Review – Obituaries
Paweł Buczyński, a composer and lecturer at the Chopin Music University, and member of the Polish Composers’ Union, died January 5 at the age of… Read more »
2015 in Review – News
One of the newest installments in Google’s Cultural Institute initiative is the exhibit Witold Lutosławski 1913-1994, an interactive exploration of the life and works of the… Read more »
2015 in Review – Anniversaries
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the Polish Music Center at the USC Thornton School of Music—a library and cultural outreach center established in 1985 for… Read more »
December 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 12 PMC News Update On The Polish National Archives Collaboration From October 1 – November 15, 2015, the Polish Music Center… Read more »
November 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 11 PMC News Zebrowski & Lynch On Vinyl Barren train stations, Polish factories at night, and silent hotels where lonely travellers… Read more »
October 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 10 PMC News PMC Celebrates 30! Polish Music Center is thirty years old this year. In honor of this important milestone,… Read more »
2015: Musica Antiqua Polonica
A survey of early Polish music with Adam Knight Gilbert and USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia Sunday, October 18, 2015 | 7:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall,… Read more »
September 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 9 PMC NEWS 2015 Paderewski Lecture-Recital On October 18, the musical treasures of the late Renaissance and Baroque period in Poland… Read more »
August 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 8 Obituary In Memoriam: Anne Strakacz-Appleton By Marek Żebrowski Anne Strakacz-Appleton died in Sacramento, California on Friday, 31 July 2015. She… Read more »
July 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 7 PMC News 2015 Paderewski Festival: Preview Held annually in November, the Paderewski Festival is a four-day musical festival on California’s… Read more »
June 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 6 PMC NEWS CMCF ‘Day At The Races’ The generous founders of the Polish Music Center, Dr. Stefan and Wanda Wilk,… Read more »
May 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 5 PMC News Stankiewicz & Oleszkiewicz In Paso Robles On May 9, the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles, CA brings two… Read more »
April 2015
Polish Music Newsletter Vol. 21, no. 4 News An Evening Of Sound And Image Held on March 28, 2015, this year’s PMC spring concert was a truly… Read more »