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Film music is diverse, and its scope depends on the perspective one adopts. It comprises compositions written for film (feature, documentary or experimental), but also...
Barbara Okoń-Makowska, a sound engineer associated with the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, has written a treatise – subtitled ‘In Period Style’ – devoted to Bogusław...
"O Music! Melody! Music! You all-powerful! Harmony of Nature! – you crush me with the weight of a vibrating harp, with your strings you carry...
‘Some call it a cacophony of decibels. Others, the joyous song of the future. But that is precisely what the right to experiment consists of,’...
As every year, the time is approaching for a long-awaited fiesta – the two most important Polish contemporary music festivals: one in Warsaw (20–28 September),...
In the mid-1950s, the political situation in Poland began to liberalize somewhat. The year 1956 brought riots in the Soviet bloc states, which in Hungary...
As a result of the September campaign, Polish musical culture incurred severe losses. Among other things, the Warsaw opera and philharmonic buildings were destroyed; Polish...
The last three decades have brought great political, social and technological changes. While Communism was falling in Eastern Europe, the Internet was entering commercial circulation...
The average share of female composers at contemporary music festivals around the world today does not exceed 20%. Some say that the figures reflect the...
Jewish settlement on Polish lands has an over 1000-year history that has made a deep mark on our culture. In 2014, the Jewish Historical Institute...
Two world wars, the Holocaust, the gulags and Communist oppression – the suffering made an indelible mark on 20 th -century artists. Theodor W. Adorno...
Map of Polish Composers is the most comprehensive resource ever dedicated to Polish music giving users instant access to biographies, extracts from recordings and a carefully charted map providing a rich global cultural context for every artist highlighting their influences and inspirations.
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