Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 1 News The Dana New Music Festival New Music from Poland Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, April 6-11. The Festival included: Seven concerts: Polish Music and Polish Musicians. Dorota Sobieska – soprano, Wanda Sobieska – violin, Jacek Sobieski – piano (Szymanowski, Bacewicz, Serocki). Polish Sacred Lenten and Easter Music. St. Stanislaus Polish Choir,…Continue Reading April 1997
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March 1997
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 3 News Darek “Oles” OLESZKIEWICZ, leader of the LOS ANGELES JAZZ QUARTET, an acoustic-oriented group, gets a double-shot at the finals of the Eleventh Annual Cognac Hennessy Jazz Search next September in New York. In addition to playing with his own group, he will perform as one of the sidemen with the JAMES CARNEY SEXTET; two of…Continue Reading March 1997
February 1997
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 2 News Composer Marta PTASZYNSKA received the 1996 Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award in the field of music for outstanding creative achievements and for the significant contributions to the advancement of Polish culture. In addition to composing, teaching and performing PTASZYNSKA had organized two Polish music festivals at the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center. Her…Continue Reading February 1997
January 1997
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 1 News LUTOSLAWSKI: BREAKING CHAINS, a weekend of music, talks and films about the great composer who would have been 84 years old on January 25th. At the Barbican Center, London. Friday 17 – Sunday 19 January, 1997. The BBC Symphony Orchestra opens with Chain II and Chain III, two of the pieces that lend their…Continue Reading January 1997
December 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 10 News LUTOSLAWSKI‘s music on a NAXOS release performed by Poland’s top elite orchestra, WOSPRiT – Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia i Telewizji (The Great Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television of Katowice) received the prestigious French Award, Diapason d’or. Antoni WIT, conducting; Krzysztof BAKOWSKI, violin. Mr. Wit and WOSPRiT also received this year’s Orpheus Award from the association of Polish music…Continue Reading December 1996
November 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 11 News Results of the XI INTERNATIONAL HENRYK WIENIAWSKI VIOLIN COMPETITION (OCTOBER 27, 1996): I Prize: None II Prize: OTANI REIKO III Prize: TAMAKA AKIKO IV Prize: Tie between SEZAKI ASUKA and LUKASZ BLASZCZYK V Prize: ANNA RESZNIAK VIPrize: MARIA MALGORZATA NOWAK Over 400 inquiries from 23 countries; 105 formal entries submitted. Because of the larger than usual number of applications a…Continue Reading November 1996
October 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 10 News A new CD: Marta PTASZYNSKA’s Holocaust Memorial Cantata has just been released by ACCORD (ACD 016) with Lord Yehudi MENUHIN conducting the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Warsaw Chamber Choir. Composed in 1991-1992 to Chant for all the People on Earth by English poet Leslie Woolf Hedley, the work is sung in four languages (English, Polish, Hebrew…Continue Reading October 1996
September 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 9 News The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director ESA-PEKKA SALONEN have been awarded the prestigious quarterly prize of the German CD review Deutsche Schallplattenkritik for their “artistically ourstanding” new CD featuring the compositions of Witold LUTOSLAWSKI. Piotr ANDERSZEWSKI makes his first CD. The Polish pianist,who studied at the University of Southern California with Prof. John Perry about four years ago,…Continue Reading September 1996
August 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 8 News PMRC WELCOMES NEW DIRECTOR: Dr. Maria Anna Harley has been appointed director of the Polish Music Reference Center and assistant professor of Music History and Literature at the USC School of Music beginning with the fall semester. “We are happy to welcome Dr. Harley, not only for her broad qualifications as…Continue Reading August 1996
June 1996
Polish Music Reference Center Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 6 News RESULTS of the 47th Annual Chopin Piano Competition at the Kosciuszko Foundation held May 9 – 11th in New York: No I or II Prizes awarded! Three-way Tie for III place: Sayaka Tanikawa Andrew Russo Grant Moffitt Abbey Simon was the chairman of the panel of Jurors. WINNERS of the new Chopin International Piano Competition…Continue Reading June 1996