By Marek Zebrowski During the gloriously sunny summer months in Los Angeles, just as it seemed that vacation time is upon us with slower-than-usual traffic on campus, we were kept rather busy at the PMC. Besides working on preserving items from the Stojowski Collection with great and invaluable assistance from Anna Czajka, our expert in…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: July 2025
August was a time of many guests and meetings at the Polish Music Center, where there is truly never a dull moment in our summers! An excellent visit and knowledge-sharing session with our colleagues from the Wende Museum took place in mid-August, and included other esteemed PMC partners—Sonia Matheus from the Museum of Tolerance and…Continue Reading PMC Gifts & News: August 2025
Regarding Word War II During the month of June, the Polish Music Center received several books related to Poland’s history. Dr. Jarosław Rabiński, director of the Centrum Badań nad Historią Polskiego Państwa na Uchodźstwie [Center for historical studies of the Polish Government-in-Exile] at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin sent us a large…Continue Reading June 2024 PMC Gifts – Books on Polish History
Spring surprises kept coming to the PMC during the month of April. Unlike the traditional “donation-by-mail” method, this time most gifts were conveyed to us personally. The first tranche of treasures, handed in by our dear longtime friend, Betty Harford-Naszódy, will benefit the PMC library and our files on composers. A hardbound copy of The…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: April 2025
New item for Kaper Collection An unexpected and truly treasured gift came to us from our dear friend, Andrew Justice, Head of the Music Library at the Thornton School of Music. It is a rare LP featuring a large selection of Bronisław Kaper’s most famous film and song compositions, including Mutiny on the Bounty, Lili,…Continue Reading PMC Gifts – February 2025
The Museum of the City of Łódź just sent us a great publication, Paweł Klecki i Muzyka Łodzi/Paweł Klecki and the Music of Łódź. This compact and richly illustrated book presents one of the city’s prominent musicians—the world-famous conductor and recently rediscovered composer, Paweł Klecki (1900-1973) —and serves as a companion to an exhibit at…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: January 2025
It is the time of year when we reach out to the Friends of the USC Polish Music Center, to celebrate our accomplishments of the last year and ask you to support us into the next. Since our last report, there have been many exciting developments at the PMC, and we’d like to take this…Continue Reading Year-in-Review: PMC in 2024
This month we received several wonderful publications from good friends of the Polish Music Center. Dr. Paweł Freus, Senior Research Specialist from Muzeum Ghetta Warszawskiego (The Warsaw Ghetto Museum) gifted us with 4 books pertaining to the history of Jewish communities in Poland. These publications include: In addition to these publications, Tomasz Wiśniewski from POLONICA…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: November 2024
Following his August recital in San Francisco, Polish pianist and composer Tomasz Kamieniak came down to Los Angeles and visited the PMC. This Berlin-based musician came bearing several gifts that will expand our score and sound libraries. Kamieniak As Composer In the pride of place among the gifts is the set of solo piano pieces…Continue Reading Kamieniak Visit & PMC Gifts
The many colleagues, donors and friends of the Polish Music Center were very generous this summer, when our Director Marek Zebrowski was travelling in Poland to retrieve PMC archival materials preserved by our partners at the National Archives/AGAD facility and accept a UNESCO designation for our Henryk Wars Collection at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw….Continue Reading PMC Gifts: July 2024 – Scores, Recordings & Reference Materials