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
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
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
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
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 12 News Flash Gramophone Award For Rattle’s King Roger The December issue of the Gramophone informs about the triumph of Sir Simon Rattle, distinguished British conductor, whose recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 (in the Deryck Cooke performing edition) received the title of the Recording of the Year. Rattle’s EMI set of King Roger was recognized…Continue Reading December 2000
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 11 News Flash Winners of the 14th Chopin Competition I Prize: Yundi Li (China) II Prize: Ingrid Fliter (Argentina) III Prize: Alexander Kobrin (Russia) IV Prize: Sa Chen (China) V Prize: Alberto Nose (Italy) VI Prize: Mika Satao (Japan) For the first time in 15 years (the last three competitions) the…Continue Reading November 2000
On 21 October 2000, an open house and exhibition were held during the celebrations of the Polish American Heritage Month. The accompanying Chamber Music Concert was recorded and the CD includes chamber music by Kazimierz Serocki, Marta Ptaszyńska, Tadeusz Szeligowski, Tadeusz Baird, and others….Continue Reading Polish Manuscript Exhibition and Concert
Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 10 News Flash Triumphs Of Warsaw Autumn, Part I Among many music events held in September in Poland the 43rd International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn” was the most impressive. The programs, the concerts, the performers, the organization, and the audiences did not leave any room for improvement. Under the…Continue Reading October 2000