We are glad to announce that two lectures given during the 52nd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers’ Union have been made available on our official YT channel.
The 52nd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union was entitled ‘Polish Music. Tradition and modernity’ and took place in Rzeszów (Rzeszów University, Institute of Art) and Strzyżów (the Zygmunt Mycielski State School of Music). It was organised by the Musicological Section of the Polish Composers' Union and gathered many musicologists and music theorists from Poland and abroad.
The conference was opened by the lecture by prof. Luba Kijanowska-Kamińska from Lviv (Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy) entitled
Rola muzyków polskich w kształtowaniu ukraińskiej profesjonalnej szkoły kompozytorskiej XIX i początku XX wieku [The role of Polish musicians in the process of building the Ukrainian proffessional music school]. The video recording is available here:
Prof. Luba Kijanowska’s lecture.
The second lecture was given in English by Prof. J. Mackenzie Pierce from the University of Michigan and was entitled
Composition as Reconstruction: Music in Poland from World War II to Socialist Realism. The video recording in original (with Polish subtitles ) is available here:
The lecture by Prof. Mackenzie Pierce.
The Conference was co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Polish Republic within the framework of the ‘Doskonała nauka - wsparcie konferencji naukowych’ (Excellent science - support for scientific conferences) programme.
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