Int’l Conference “Roman Ryterband as an heir and advocate of Polish musical traditions in the US”
In Memory of Roman Ryterband A Forgotten Resident of Łódź – Composer, Pianist and Educator Born in Łódź in 1914 – Died in Palm Springs… Read more »
PMC News
PMC at the PAN Conference
The year, the Musicology Institute at the Polish Academy of Sciences [PAN] held the Third Annual Conference on the topic of “Polish Music Abroad.” A… Read more »
PMC at MAB Conference
Conference Overview The 41st annual conference of Polish Museums, Archives and Libraries [MAB] was held September 14-18 in Lublin. Hosted by the John Paul II… Read more »
Celebrating Paderewski in Chicago
The Paderewski Polish-Ukrainian Foundation led by Adam Bala and Marianna Humetska brought a chamber version of Paderewski’s opera, Manru, to Chicago’s Cernicus Center on October… Read more »
Gifts to PMC July-October 2019
by Marek Zebrowski Earlier this year, Trudy Ossowski sent us three big parcels of sheet music, recordings and books from the Walter and Jerome Ossowski… Read more »
Chopin, Kilar and Wars: Polish film music” at Music @ Rush Hour
The USC Polish Music Center presents a program of Polish music used in or written for films, as a part of the USC Thornton “Music… Read more »
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 »
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 »