On Wanda Landowska
The Library of Congress has posted a very interesting video of a lecture and concert held at the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium on 25 May… Read more »
Musicology
New Bacewicz Bio by Sendłak
Review by Marek Zebrowski Joanna Sendłak, granddaughter of composer Grażyna Bacewicz, is the author of the latest biography in the PWM “Małe monografie” series. A… Read more »
“Online Meetings at the Composers’ Union” – Zygmunt Mycielski
On 16 December 2021 at 4:00 p.m. Central European Time, the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP) will host an online meeting devoted to the life and… Read more »
Under the Awangarda Banner
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… Read more »
2021 Kraków International Festival of Composers
The Kraków International Festival of Composers has been part the cultural life of the city since 1989 (formerly known as the Days of Music by… Read more »
PMC GIFTS: Feb-March 2021
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… Read more »
Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”
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… Read more »
Hieronim Feicht Competition 2020 Results
On 18 March 2021, the Jury of the Professor Hieronim Feicht Competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation awarded the authors of works in the field… Read more »
Online Lecture on Polish Jewish Music by Prof. Halina Goldberg
The ongoing “Distinguished Lectures” series is being offered by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. During 2021, the lectures will… Read more »
First Complete Edition of Ballads by Jadwiga Sarnecka
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… Read more »
Jarociński Archive at IS-PAN
The Special Collections Department of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IS-PAN) recently acquired the archive of Stefan Jarociński, an outstanding… Read more »
Dobrzański on Łabuński
Dr. Sławomir Dobrzański—a scholar, biographer of Maria Szymanowska, and professor of piano at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas—will deliver a lecture on the life… Read more »
IMIT 2020/2021 Research Awards
Poland’s Institute of Music and Dance [IMIT] selected 15 projects for financial support awards under its “Białe plamy—muzyka i taniec” [Blind spots—music and dance] program.… Read more »