PWM has released a new publication about Polish composer Marta Ptaszyńska. Written by Ptaszyńska in collaboration with noted musicologist Iwona Lindsted, Siła intuicji [The Power of Intuition] is the third publication in PWM’s series “Ludzie Świata Muzyki” [People of the World of Music]. Marta Ptaszyńska is a true phenomenon. Few people are able simultaneously to…Continue Reading New Book About Marta Ptaszyńska
Biennial Prize Awarded for Best Article on Polish Studies LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2023 — Aquila Polonica announces that Barbara Milewski, Daniel Underhill Professor of Music at Swarthmore College, and Bret Werb, Music Collection Curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have won the 2023 Aquila Polonica Article Prize. The biennial Aquila Polonica Article Prize…Continue Reading The 2023 Aquila Polonica Article Prize Winner Announced
A new edition of Andrzej Panufnik’s Composing Myself was published by Toccata Press on March 28th, in their Musicians on Music series. This new volume includes the composer’s autobiography written in 1985 comes complete with new detailed annotations, a new preface by Simon Callow, and a new final chapter by his wife Camilla Panufnik featuring…Continue Reading New Edition of Panufnik’s Autobiography
After playing the role of a conductor in upcoming film Tar, Cate Blanchett discusses how music has informed her life and her work in a Gramophone Magazine interview. In the interview, she references Polish composer Henryk Górecki: “I think about Death and the Maiden a lot. The music of Górecki too. During the making of…Continue Reading Cate Blanchett on Górecki in Gramophone
‘Śpiewajmy Polskę!’ [Let’s sing Poland!] is a unique songbook containing a selection of the 100 most important patriotic songs in the history of the country. Published by PMW [Polish Music Publishers], these new arrangements for voice with piano accompaniment and guitar chords are available on the website www.spiewajmypolske.pl. The arrangements give unlimited possibilities for people…Continue Reading “Let’s Sing Poland!”—New PWM Anthology of Patriotic Songs
Book Review by Marek Zebrowski For over two centuries, Polish music has been inextricably linked to history and politics. A multitude of turbulent events (including the loss of independence, uprisings, revolutions and worldwide conflicts, with Poland’s territory being invaded and pillaged and its citizenry suffering unimaginable tragedies) inevitably turned the arts, literature and music into…Continue Reading Under the Awangarda Banner
Lisa Cooper Vest—assistant professor of musicology in the Thornton School of Music, and presenter at the recent PMC Spring Górecki event—has recently published a book entitled Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music (University of California Press, 2020). Dr. Vest will explore this new publication at an online discussion hosted by the USC Levan…Continue Reading Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”
The latest book published by PWM Edition—Danuta Gwizdalanka’s Uwodziciel – Rzecz o Karolu Szymanowskim [The Seducer – A thing about Karol Szymanowski] —will appear in bookstores on 29 March 2021. This new biography of Karol Szymanowski will make readers blush. Danuta Gwizdalanka, who recently appeared in the Polish Music Center’s 2020 Paderewski Lecture (available for viewing on…Continue Reading “The Seducer. A thing about Karol Szymanowski” by Danuta Gwizdalanka
Nowy Dziennik, the New York City based Polish weekly, featured an extensive interview in Polish with violinist Kinga Augustyn. Published on 14 February 2021, the article entitled Muzyczny świat Kingi Augustyn [The Music World of Kinga Augustyn] begins with a discussion of the two most recent recordings by this Polish virtuosa, who is also a…Continue Reading Augustyn’s Interview
The first complete edition of six Ballads for piano solo composed by Jadwiga Sarnecka (1873? -1913) has been published by the Eufonium publishing house. This recent edition was based entirely on the composer’s extant manuscripts preserved at the Jagiellonian University Library, which were researched and edited by Marek Szlezer, a Krakow-based pianist and scholar. According…Continue Reading First Complete Edition of Ballads by Jadwiga Sarnecka