Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 9 News Flash Warsaw Autumn 2001: September 21-29 The program of the 44th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Warsaw Autumnhas recently been announced (September 21- 29, 2001). The Festival includes numerous fascinating items and world premieres – thus proving its high rank as one of the main “new music” events of the…Continue Reading September 2001
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August 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 8 News Flash Knittel’s World Premiere In Warsaw The world premiere of Krzysztof Knittel’s work “El maale rahamim” dedicated to the memory of the Jewish victims of the massacre at Jedwabne took place on 10 July 2001 in the Evangelical Church in Warsaw. The work’s title stems from the first words…Continue Reading August 2001
July 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 7 News Flash Winner Of Chopin Competition 2000: YUNDI LI – FIRST TIME IN CALIFORNIA The debut concert of the 18-year-old Chinese pianist, Yundi Li, the first prize winner of the 14th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, October 2000 will take place on 28 July at 7:30 p.m. at the…Continue Reading July 2001
June 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 6 News Flash Mykietyn’s Premiere In Warsaw Paweł Mykietyn’s chamber opera, Ignorant i szaleniec [An ignoramus and a madman], based on a play by Thomas Bernhard received its premiere at the Teatr Wielki, Grand Theater – National Opera in Warsaw Poland (May 4-5, 2001). The opera, commissioned by the Theater from…Continue Reading June 2001
May 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 5 News Flash Chopin Competition Winners Top Prize Winners of the 2001 Kościuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition: I Prize: Esther Park, 16-year-old student from Ridgefield Park High School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky of the Juilliard School of Music, received the $5000 scholarship prize. II Prize: Amy Yang, 16, sophomore at Bellaire…Continue Reading May 2001
April 2001
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 7, no. 4 News Flash Bokun And American Premieres “Rare and exhilarating” best describes “Polish Strings: 20th Century Orchestral Classics,” the program conceived and directed by Jan Jakub (“Kuba”) Bokun, a young musician from Poland working on his Master’s Degree in Music at USC. Rare, because it was probably the first time these…Continue Reading April 2001
Polish Strings
March 2001: The program of this concert included Romuald Twardowski’s Marian Triptych, Tadeusz Baird’s Colas Breugnon Suite, Henryk Górecki’s Three Pieces in the Old Style, and Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa. Jan Jakub Bokun, conductor, and USC Strings….Continue Reading Polish Strings
March 2001
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
February 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
January 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