Opera Circle

Chopin and His Master comprising: Echo in the Woods (Echo w lesie) — opera by Józef Elsner 17 Songs by Frédéric Chopin in a staged setting Chopin’s Variations on La ci darem la mano Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus 3649 East 65th Street Cleveland, OH 44105 Friday, April 23, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April […]

Warszawa Chopina (Chopin’s Warsaw) – Video

Chopin’s Warsaw is a filmic journey around the city of Warsaw in the company of Frycek. That’s the name that was given to Fryderyk Chopin in his youth by his friends and family. See Warsaw, past and present, through his eyes. Discover the city where Poland’s greatest composer spent his youth.

The Glory of Poland

My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history’s gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland’s elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn. My second was to call my old friend Adam Michnik in Warsaw. Michnik, an intellectual imprisoned six times by the former puppet-Soviet Communist rulers, once told me: […]

Polish Annual Picnic

PACC will hold its annual picnic at St.Savas Serbian church in Broadview Heights. Plenty of Polish food, Polish Beer, Dj, and a live band. Admission: $5 Raffel tickets are also for sale at the picnic Grand Prize $1000 Prepaid Gas Card. 2nd Prize $250 3rd Prize $100 Raffel tickets are $5 or $25 for six.