The Bay Area’s Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will present the centerpiece concert of its Tenth Anniversary Season, entitled Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan, on April 15 in San Francisco. E4TT is comprised of Nanette McGuinness – soprano, Dale Tsang – piano, and Anne Lerner-Wright – cello, and they will be joined by Laura Reynolds – English…Continue Reading E4TT Concert feat. Czesław Miłosz & Aleksandra Kaca
As institutions of public history, museums play a vital role in presenting difficult histories. With recent efforts in Poland to dictate how the history of the Holocaust should be told, what stories are Polish museums telling and how free are they to tell them? These issues are especially relevant this year, which marks the 100th…Continue Reading This Month at LAMOTH
The Witold Lutosławski Society presents the “Contrasts” Concert on April 16, the next event in the “New Music Scene” series of concerts at Warsaw’s Nowy Teatr. The concert will feature the Chain Ensemble conducted by Andrzej Bauer (pictured above), performing: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – Little Requiem for a Certain Polka op. 66; Carola Bauckholt –…Continue Reading Contrasts Concert
From 11-13 April 2018, the Institute of Arts at São Paulo State University in Campinas, Brazil (UNICAMP) is hosting the 3rd annual Festival de Música Polonesa [Festival of Polish Music]. Festival Director, cellist Lars Hoefs (a USC Thornton School of Music graduate, now teaching at UNICAMP), says: “It may seem an odd fit, a Polish music…Continue Reading III Festival de Música Polonesa
The recent starring role appearance of Polish tenor Piotr Beczała in Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Metropolitan Opera in New York elicited much praise from all quarters. In his April 3 review, Robert Levine’s headline “Superb Yoncheva and Beczała in The Met’s Luisa Miller, anchored by Domingo” succinctly says it all. Writing of Beczała’s rendition…Continue Reading Piotr Beczała at the MET
Starting on April 16, the Grand Theater in Łódź will host a series of concerts entitled “100 songs for 100 years of Independence.” During the concerts, leading soloists from the Grand Theater in Łódź will present the most beautiful songs set to the poems of Polish poets about their homeland. There will be plenty of…Continue Reading 100 Songs for 100 Years of Independence
Eastman School of Music faculty members, students, and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah by performing the Fifth Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Kilbourn Hall. Entitled “A Time to Remember . . .”, the concert features music written by those who perished or survived the World…Continue Reading Holocaust Remembrance Day at Eastman feat. Roman Ryterband
On April 14, the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York will present students from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in Canzoni e Concerti—a concert of Baroque Chamber Music from Poland. Juilliard student performers include: Annie Gard, baroque violin; Rachell Wong, baroque violin; Adam Young, viola da gamba; and Katarzyna Kluczykowska, harpsichord. The event will feature instrumental…Continue Reading ‘Canzoni e Concerti’ Concert – Polish Baroque Chamber Music in NY
Paso Pops—the annual Paderewski Festival-sponsored patriotic concert and Independence Day celebration in Paso Robles combining wine, beer, food, family-friendly activities, live music and fireworks—will be held on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. The event moves to the Main Stage at the Paso Robles Event Center with a three-year agreement as part of this venue and date change….Continue Reading 2018 Paso Pops
Having toured Italy together last November, the world renowned pair of Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman and Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak returned to that country on March 11 to reprise a similar program with the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. The concert featured Zimerman as soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “Age of Anxiety” and he chose to…Continue Reading Zimerman & Nowak In Italy