Many faithful Polish Music Center visitors and Polish Music Newsletter readers may have noticed that our URL has recently changed to pmc.usc.edu. This is due to server upgrade work that is being carried out by the University and will not affect the content of our site. Please also be aware that our old web address will continue to…Continue Reading New Interim Web Address
Led by Adam Knight Gilbert, the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles will present a program entitled “Musica Antiqua Polonica: Musical Treasures of Early-Modern Poland” at the Early Music America—Young Performers Festival on June 9 in Berkeley, CA. Featuring music by Mikołaj Zieleński, Marcin Mielczewski, Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński, Diomedes Cato, Wojciech Długoraj,…Continue Reading Polish Early Music in the Bay Area
The International Association of Music Libraries will hold its Annual Congress in Rome in early July. The Polish Music Center will be represented by Director Marek Zebrowski at a July 7 session devoted to the PMC’s Manuscript Collection and Composers’ Archives. Chaired by Marie Cornaz from the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels, the presentations will include such topics as the…Continue Reading PMC at IAML
This year’s Book Expo America was held in Chicago, May 11-14, and Poland was the designated guest of honor at this huge and prestigious event. Alongside the Polish Book Institute, who organized part of the Polish exhibit, the Los Angeles based publisher Aquila Polonica participated with its series of fascinating and beautifully produced books about history of Poland during World…Continue Reading PMC at BEA
The Board of the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles has announced a new event in the Festival’s array of cultural offerings on the Central Coast, this time with a “Pops” theme. On July 2, 2016, join Festival organizers for the PASO POPS Independence Day Concert at the new Paso Robles Horse Park. “PASO POPS was created to provide an annual…Continue Reading Paso Pops
Coloratura soprano Malia Bendi Merad, one of the many scholars who visited the PMC over the last few months, contacted us in April with an interest in studying Karol Szymanowski’s 6 Songs of a Fairy Tale Princess, Op. 31. During several hours spent in our library, Bendi Merad not only poured over the score of these brilliant and…Continue Reading Szymanowski Explorations at the PMC
Saturday, April 2, 2016 | 8:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public Campus Parking: $12 – enter Gate 3 at Figueroa St. & McCarthy Way (Parking Structure X) From PMC Newsletter March 2016…Continue Reading 2016: A Tribute to Roman Ryterband
From Mieczysław Kominek, President of the Polish Composers Union (ZKP), and our friends at the Polish Music Information Centre in Warsaw we received a program and CD box set from the 2015 Warszawska Jesień [Warsaw Autumn] Festival. The program is an incredibly detailed source, containing information about composers, program notes and other details of the 2015 edition of this prestigious…Continue Reading Donations to PMC
On March 21, Ewa and Dariusz Kupiński of the internationally acclaimed Kupiński Guitar Duo dropped by the Polish Music Center for tea. During the visit, the pair shared their new CD (QBK 016), which features music by Rossini, Chopin, Bogdanovic, Piazzolla, Gershwin, and Granados. This is their second classical album release. The Kupiński Guitar Duo is showcasing…Continue Reading Kupiński Guitar Duo at USC
The spring concert organized by the Polish Music Center at USC’s Thornton School of Music on April 2 was devoted exclusively to works by Roman Ryterband (1914-1979). An expectant crowd filled USC’s Alfred Newman Recital Hall to hear music by this lesser-known Polish composer, who spent the last twelve years of his life in Palm Springs, California….Continue Reading Ryterband Returns