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
From Krzysztof Olczak, our good friend and Professor at the Gdańsk Music Academy, we received two CDs featuring music for accordion and various chamber ensembles. The first, Krzysztof Olczak—Solo and Chamber Music for Accordion (Dux 1598) features solo accordion works alongside pieces for voice and accordion (or two accordions), accordion, guitar and violin, as well…Continue Reading December & January Gifts to PMC
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
by Marek Zebrowski Earlier this year, Trudy Ossowski sent us three big parcels of sheet music, recordings and books from the Walter and Jerome Ossowski music library. There are many fascinating and rare publications and music scores—mainly from the 1920s-1950s—which will be catalogued and added to the PMC’s exisiting Ossowski Collection. Since many of the…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC July-October 2019
From Betty Harford-Naszódy Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes. Edition Peters, No. 1904 (Herrmann Scholtz, Ed.) Mark Hambourg: “Nocturne in C Minor by Chopin.” [2 pages] Clipping from the Etude Magazine, April 1937 Rowena Gailey, “Why Professional Pianists Practice Slowly.” [1 page] Clipping from the Etude Magazine, April 1937 From Dr. Ewa Muchnick Zephyr Records 70-002: Good…Continue Reading Recent PMC Donations
Gifts gathered in Poland After another sojourn in Poland during late June and July, and visits with all kinds of good friends there, PMC once again was on the receiving end of many wonderful gifts to our library. Starting the list chronologically is a newly issued crime novel, Sidła [Snares], penned by Grażyna Bacewicz, better…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC July 2019
New Szymanowski Book Throughout her long and intellectually rich life Teresa Chylińska, the world’s preeminent scholar of Karol Szymanowski, has authored a great number of books and even greater number of articles about this most important mid-20th century Polish composer. Chylińska’s latest book, Karol Szymanowski—Roman, którego nie było? [Karol Szymanowski—A Romance that did not happen?]…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC June 2019