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Andrzej Trzaskowski was born in Kraków on March 23, 1933. He began playing piano at age four and founded his first jazz band, Rhythm Quartet. He attended Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków and collaborated with prominent Polish jazz pianists. His paternal grandfather, Bronisław Trzaskowski, established some of the first girls' secondary ...
Warszawianka (The Song of Warsaw, 1831) Originally written in 1831 by Casimir Delavigne in French as La Varsovienne , with melody composed by Karol Kurpiński . The song praised the November Uprising of 1830 and, translated into Polish by Karol Sienkiewicz , it became the most popular song of the uprising and is still performed by Polish ...
The American School of Warsaw (commonly abbreviated as ASW) is an English-using international school in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 1953 by members of the U. S. Embassy.The school remains connected to the Embassy for general support and the U.S. Ambassador is the honorary chair of the board according to the bylaws of the school.
According to saxophonist and composer Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, who was the founding member of the band, Melomani consisted of students of the famous National Film School in Łódź, such as Witold Sobociński and Andrzej Wojciechowski (Matuszkiewicz also studied there) as well as young men from other big cities like Kraków and Poznań, because in ...
In the 1980s he moved to the US, where he continued performing in Polish-American community clubs and venues, before moving back to Poland in 2005. [1] During his career Hulewicz received various honours, notably the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. [1] [2] He died of cancer on 4 September 2022, at the age of 84. [1] [2] [3]
Playtime, a Paris-based sales, production and equity investment company, has picked up “Chopin, a Sonata in Paris,” an ambitious biopic of famed composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin hailing ...
Polish Taylor Swift fans have an important warning for foreign Swifties traveling to Warsaw to see the Eras Tour this week.. Locals will be expecting to hear air raid sirens blast throughout the ...
The duo originally took the name "Die Warzau Synfony" as a reference to an orchestra composed of dissidents and Jews that played in Warsaw, Poland early in World War Two until, as the band put it, they were "censored to death." [1] [3] After releasing their first 12", "I've Got to Make Sense", [4] the band dropped "Synfony" to become simply Die ...