2019 Paderewski Festival Cultural Exchange Diary
by Marek Zebrowski Wednesday, June 26. Warsaw-Kraków I wake up early to check if the (habitually late) non-stop LOT flight from LAX will actually land… Read more »
PMC News
Gifts to PMC July 2019
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… Read more »
Gifts to PMC June 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… Read more »
Gifts to PMC May 2019
New Items in the Ryterband Collection We were recently visited by Diana Eisele (pictured above), the daughter of Roman Ryterband, who has served as an… Read more »
Gifts to PMC April 2019
From Łódź… Two visiting faculty members from the Łódź Music Academy not only performed on our Spring Concert on March 23 but also donated several… Read more »
Gifts to PMC February 2019
Górecki in Private Dr. Zofia Petrovich, together with her husband and PMC founders, Stefan and Wanda Wilk, were among the hosts during… Read more »
Gifts to PMC January 2019
The year’s end and the holidays usually prompt our friends near and far to send us all kinds of important publications, scores and other materials… Read more »
PMC Celebrated Poland’s Centenary of Independence in Poland and France
In Poland Held under the title “Kontrasty-Niepodległa” [Contrasts-Independence], the 56th Bydgoszcz Music Festival celebrated the centenary of Poland’s regained independence with a wide-ranging presentation of… Read more »
Lynch & Zebrowski
The celebrated film director and auteur David Lynch is also a noted visual artist, and the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Netherlands opened an exhibit of… Read more »
PMC 2018 Year in Review
Dear Friend of the Polish Music Center, Our annual ritual of sharing what we have accomplished at the PMC in 2018 and asking for your… Read more »
Gifts to PMC November 2018
A CONCERT AT CATE Betty Harford, a longtime loyal friend and supporter of the Polish Music Center, attended the Cultural Exchange Program concert given by… Read more »
2018 Paderewski Festival
The Paderewski Festival is a four-day music festival held annually in November celebrating Paso Robles’ rich heritage and its most famous resident Ignacy Jan Paderewski—virtuoso… Read more »
Gifts to PMC July 2018
Bill Vestal, Director of LACMA’s Sundays Live Concert Series presented the PMC with a regal gift of a deluxe LP album featuring Bronisław Kaper’s music… Read more »
Gifts to PMC June 2018
Pop CD Collection Darek Swiatkowski, Program Director for the Polish American Performing Arts Club, recently donated to us another batch of music CDs and a… Read more »
Recent Gifts to PMC
Books & Scores from PWM Dr. Daniel Cichy, Director and Editor-in-Chief for PWM [Polish Music Publishers] was recently in Los Angeles and stopped by the… Read more »
Gifts to PMC March 2018
Dr. Grzegorz Mania, pianist and member of the Society for Poland’s Chamber Musicians [SPMK] gave us his recently published volume, Konteksty kultury—Konteksty edukacji, profesjonalne kształcenie… Read more »
New PMC Website is Live!
The Polish Music Center’s pioneering website has been serving musicians, scholars and the interested public worldwide since 1994. In 2017, we announced our intention to… Read more »
Gifts to PMC February 2018
From Dr. Grzegorz Mania, president of the Polish Chamber Music Society [Stowarzyszenie Polskich Muzyków Kameralistów], we recevied the recently published volume, Czytanie a vista w szkole muzycznej… Read more »
Gifts to PMC January 2018
From Frank Harders, our dear friend at Boosey & Hawkes in Berlin, we received a brand new CD featuring several major works by Józef Koffler.… Read more »
Kosciuszko FDN & PMC Honor Paderewski
On February 8 the elegant headquarters of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City hosted a special event celebrating the centenary of Poland’s regained independence with a… Read more »