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
The 12th Wawel at Dusk festival was held from 6 July to 31 August in the Arcade and Batory courtyards of Wawel Royal Castle. In honor of this year’s theme of “Preserving Chopin,” music by Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Witold Lutosławski will be presented. Polish music will be portrayed…Continue Reading 2019 Wawel at Dusk Festival
The 6th International Cello Academy celebrated composer Piotr Moss‘s 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of artistic work with a concert at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław on 21 July. The International Cello Academy [Międzynarodowa Akademia Wiolonczelowa] features concerts and workshops by and for cellists from around the world, covering a wide repertoire from…Continue Reading World premiere and anniversary of Piotr Moss
On September 7, there will be a concert of Polish music at the Santa Monica Public Library to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. The program features the music of Wojciech Kilar from the score of The Pianist (2000), as well as works by Frederic Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, Grażyna Bacewicz,…Continue Reading Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War II
The Congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers (IAML) took place from 14-19 July at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The aim of the IAML Congress was the exchange of experience and presentation of scientific achievements of librarians and archivists as well as musicologists. The IAML 2019 Congress gathered approximately…Continue Reading 2019 IAML Conference in Kraków
Gifts gathered in Poland After another sojourn in Poland during late June and July, and visits with all kinds of good friends there, PMC once again was on the receiving end of many wonderful gifts to our library. Starting the list chronologically is a newly issued crime novel, Sidła [Snares], penned by Grażyna Bacewicz, better…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC July 2019