Under the title “Powstało w wolnej Polsce” [Created in Independent Poland], the Warsaw National Philharmonic’s April 27-28 concerts featured Paderewski’s Overture for Symphony Orchestra and a Piano Concerto in D-flat Major by now largely forgotten Kraków based composer, Jerzy Gablenz (1888-1937). Although the work was completed in 1926, this lushly neoromantic work received its world…Continue Reading Warsaw Phil Honors Polish Independence
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland, the Cleveland Opera will create a new production of The Haunted Manor [Straszny dwór] by Stanisław Moniuszko, to be presented in on June 16 at the Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. This original production will be fully staged, sung in Polish…Continue Reading New Production of Moniuszko’s Haunted Manor
The first Polish jazz musician to receive a Grammy Award, pianist Włodek Pawlik, and his Trio will be featured at New York’s venerable Blue Note Jazz Club on Monday, May 28. The Włodek Pawlik Trio includes bassist Paweł Panta and Cezary Konrad on drums. Another Grammy Award winner, trumpeter Randy Brecker, will also appear as…Continue Reading Włodek Pawlik in NYC
The concert series “100 songs for 100 years of Independence”—in which the leading soloists of the Łódź Opera Theater seek to convey what the most beautiful songs of Polish poets and composers say about the homeland and what it is to be Polish—continues in May. There will be plenty of reflection on seemingly trivial matters:…Continue Reading 100 songs for 100 years of Independence
Under the title “Music of Warsaw and Dresden,” the Exsultemus vocal ensemble of Cambridge and the instrumentalists of Newton Baroque will jointly present works by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Bartłomiej Pękiel and Marcin Józef Żebrowski on May 19 and 20 in Massachusetts. Works by Johann David Heinichen, Jan Dismas Zelenka and Gottfried August Homilius are also…Continue Reading A Magnificat Concert!
Presented by the Chopin Foundation of the U.S. and Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the ‘Chopin for All’ Free Concert Series concludes its current season with featured young award winning American pianist, Drew Petersen. 2017 was a banner year for Petersen, who won the 2017 American Pianists Awards and was chosen as the Christel DeHaan…Continue Reading ‘Chopin for All’ Free Concert Series presents Drew Petersen
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