On Saturday, July 1, the Paderewski Festival presents Paso Pops, the annual patriotic-themed concert and Independence Day celebration in Paso Robles combining great wine, beer and food with live music, family-friendly activities and fireworks at the Paso Robles Horse Park. The 2017 “Pops” program has been announced, with an important reminder to those planning to attend that the…Continue Reading 2017 Paso Pops
Thank you also to those who attended our recent concert at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Dedicated to “The Music of Roman Ryterband,” the program was a great success, and was witnessed not only by members of the Ryterband family but also other Holocaust survivors from the city of Łódź. It was a deeply…Continue Reading PMC at LAMOTH: Videos Now on YouTube
Thank you so much to all of our wonderful donors who made our online *Website Reboot*fundraising campaign such a success! On May 17, we reached our goal of 50 donors, which invoked a special Angel Donor gift of $5,000. By the end of the campaign on May 24, donors from around the world had raised $15,076—well…Continue Reading PMC *Website Reboot* Finale
From Nancy Matulich, we received a booklet entitled “European Press Notices 1899 for Paderewski.” This very interesting and unique publication was found in the contents of an antebellum home in the west bank of New Orleans, in the section of town known as Algiers. The owner of the home is not known. This valuable historical…Continue Reading New Paderewski Donation
On May 21, the Polish Music Center and the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will present a concert dedicated to Polish composer and Holocaust survivor, Roman Ryterband. Touring Western Europe on the eve of World War II, Ryterband was able to board the last train to Switzerland, where he took refuge until the mid-1950s. Except for…Continue Reading Ryterband at LAMOTH
We’re more than halfway to our goals! Thank you so much to all who have participated in the Polish Music Center’s *Website Reboot* fundraiser so far! We are excited to report several things about this ongoing campaign. As of May 2: We have raised over $7K, so we are well on our way to the…Continue Reading PMC Website Reboot Update
A co-presentation of the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles and the Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, a concert entitled “WinterMezzo Coda: The Chopin Project” will be presented on April 29 at the Paso Robles Inn Ballroom. The recital will feature pianist Jocelyn Swigger (right), who set out on a journey to learn all 27 Chopin etudes in 2010. In this…Continue Reading Wintermezzo Coda: the Chopin Project
By Marek Zebrowski The Polish Music Center’s annual spring concert was devoted this time around to the exploration of Polish avant-garde music from the mid-1950s to the early 2000s. Works by Witold Szalonek (1927-2001), Bogusław Schaeffer (b. 1929), Henryk Mikołaj Górecki(1933-2010), Zygmunt Krauze (b. 1938), Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943), Tadeusz Wielecki (b. 1954), and Hanna Kulenty (b. 1961) were presented at the Alfred Newman Recital Hall on Saturday…Continue Reading Forward, Avant-Garde!
After more than 20 years online, the Polish Music Center website urgently needs a redesign! As pioneering as our website was when it was established by PMC founder Wanda Wilk in the mid-1990s, today the PMC’s online presence is even more crucial to our mission of promoting Polish music worldwide. However, over the next few months we…Continue Reading 2017 PMC Website Reboot Campaign
On April 8, the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library will host a panel discussion entitled “Whither Europe?” that will be free and open to the public. The conversation will range over various facets of the current political situation throughout the EU, including Brexit and the rise of extremist populism. Among the speakers for the event are: writer and…Continue Reading Whither Europe?