POLMIC’s Easter Surprise Together with the director Mieczysław Kominek, our friends at the Polish Music Information Centre in Warsaw (POLMIC) once again came through for us with a most thoughtful and timely gift. For many years already, we have been on the receiving end of POLMIC’s largesse and have happily accepted sets of unique recordings…Continue Reading PMC GIFTS: Feb-March 2021
Bacewicz by Fierro Pianist Nancy Fierro, a longtime PMC friend and a Grażyna Bacewicz expert, recently made another important donation to our library. It includes the piano reduction score and a full orchestral score of Bacewicz’s late work, the 1966 Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (see our Manuscript Collection for information on the manuscript…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: January 2021
Polish Music Abroad The Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences [IS-PAN] just published the third volume in the series, Muzyka polska za granicą [Polish Music Abroad]. The title of the latest volume, American Dream, presents in print the proceeds of the October 2019 conference in Warsaw. Entitled “American dream. Polscy twórcy za oceanem,”…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: January 2021
LUTOSŁAWSKI BIEN PRÉSENTÉ Our friends at the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Montreal pleasantly surprised us with their recent gift of a book, Lutosławski—Music and Legacy, courtesy of the Institute’s Chief Librarian, Stefan Władysiuk. Published in 2014 and edited by Stanisław Latek and Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, this carefully prepared volume evolves around four…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC: Nov. 2020
In spite of the worldwide pandemic and music stages having fallen silent, our friends in the music world continue to be active and supply the Polish Music Center’s library with some well-timed gifts. Moniuszko & Karłowicz Recording by Beczała During the last week of September, two excellent CDs had reached our mailbox—one from a local…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC: Sept 2020
Wiesław Dąbrowski, President of the AVE ARTE Foundation and director of the Paderewski International Festival in Warsaw, recently sent us two very interesting items. The first is a program booklet of the Sixth International Paderewski Festival that was held November 2-10, 2019 in Warsaw. With several attractive venues (The Royal Castle, Lutosławski Concert Studio, Warsaw…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: Aug 2020
From Warsaw… It is so very encouraging that, in spite of the pandemic and the worldwide disruptions it has brought to what we once referred to as “normal life,” friends of the Polish Music Center continue to remember us and send us all kinds of gifts. The first on this list of recent donors is…Continue Reading Recent Gifts to the PMC
For years, another longtime friend and PMC supporter, Betty Harford-Naszódy, has been on the lookout for Paderewski-related items in various antique bookstores and other purveyors of memorabilia and collectors’ treasures throughout California. Her most recent (and successful) hunt yielded two articles with Paderewski’s interviews, published in the 1920s and the 1930s in Etude Magazine. The…Continue Reading More PMC gifts: Paderewski Speaks…
A Survey of the Triangiel Catalog In spite of the PMC being closed since March 16 due to the Covid-19 virus pandemic, gifts to our library are still arriving from near and far. We are delighted and very grateful to our supporters worldwide for thinking of us during these difficult times. A very substantial donation…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC March 2020
From Dr. Anna Feliks, director of the Otwock Branch of the National Museum in Warsaw and a good friend and partner in the 2019 Paderewski Festival Cultural Exchange Program, we recently received the following Paderewski-related items: Paderewski: Piano Music for Two and Four Hands performed by Duo Granat—Waldemar Malicki and Tamara Granat. This DUX 0328…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC February 2020