In Search of Harmony: An Obituary of Joe Herter

By Marek Zebrowski Joseph Anthony Herter, conductor, author and scholar, professor of music and concert producer, died in Warsaw on 12 December 2019. He was 74 years old.  It was a long journey from Detroit—a great Midwestern metropolis with a huge Polish émigré community—to Warsaw, which eventually became Joe Herter’s adopted homeland. This continental crossing…Continue Reading In Search of Harmony: An Obituary of Joe Herter

Gifts to PMC: Nov-Dec 2019

New Additions to our CD Collection Mr. Andrzej Kosendiak, Director of the National Forum of Music has donated the following albums: Works by Marcin Józef Żebrowski. Arranged and conducted by Andrzej Kosendiak, and performed by the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Jian Hui Mo (treble), Matthew Venner (countertenor), Maciej Gocman (tenor), Felix Schwandtke (bass), and the NFM…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC: Nov-Dec 2019

PMC 2019 Year in Review & Fund Drive

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Dear Friends, It has been another successful year filled with a variety of Polish Music Center events. We are very proud of everything we have done in 2019, and must now turn to you with a fundraising request that will make next year’s PMC plans come to fruition. First, some of the most important 2019…Continue Reading PMC 2019 Year in Review & Fund Drive

December Anniversaries

Born This Month 3 December 1896 – Bolesław SZABELSKI, composer (d. 1979) 5 December 1899 – Bolesław WOYTOWICZ, composer (d. 1980) 6 December 1933 – Henryk Mikołaj GÓRECKI, composer (d. 2010) 11 December 1876 – Mieczysław KARŁOWICZ, composer (d. 1909, under an avalanche in Tatra mountains) 14 December 1789 – Maria SZYMANOWSKA, composer, virtuosa pianist (d. 1831, of…Continue Reading December Anniversaries