Participants
include over twenty international scholars, poets, professors, critics,
musicians, performers, and historians.
Lectures are open to the public and free of charge.
P R O G R A M & S
C H E D U L E
Friday,
November 12,
2010
Lectures at Loyola Lake Shore Campus, Klarchek Information Commons,
4th floor
http://luc.edu/polishstudies
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Boguslaw Raba PhD, Musicologist, University of Wroclaw
Between Romanticism and Modernism, Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s
Compositional Oeuvre
Richard Dyer PhD, Music Critic and Lecturer
Paderewski on the Radio – Rare Recordings
10:45 –11:00 a.m.
Coffee break
11:00 a.m. -12:45 p.m.
Maja Trochimczyk PhD, Musicologist, Independent Scholar,
Poet, Translator
The Image of Paderewski: An Archangel, Idol, Statesman
Irena Poniatowska, PhD, Institute
of Musicology, University of Warsaw
President of the Programming Board of The Fryderyk Chopin National
Institute
Chopin and Paderewski – Two Artistic and Patriotic Attitudes
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be
provided
2:00 – 3:00
Anna Gasienica-Byrcyn PhD, Lecturer, Visiting Research
Assistant Professor
University
of Illinois at Chicago
I. J. Paderewski and the Zakopane Connection
Malgorzata Perkowska-Waszek PhD, Musicologist,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
The Muses and Ladies of Ignacy Jan Paderewski
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Coffee
break
3:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Documentary Film: Ignacy Jan Paderewski - zarys
biografii (I. J. Paderewski – An Outline of His Biography),
Andrzej Chiczewski, Director, 1999 (83 min)
Introduction, commentary and Q&A session with Zbigniew Banas,
Lecturer, Loyola University; Film Critic
and Translator
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Benefit Piano Recital by Jan Milosz Lisiecki (Chicago
Debut) and lecture by Dr. Richard Dyer;
The Newberry Library, Chicago. Advance reservations required; www.chopin-paderewski.org
Saturday, November 13
Lectures at Loyola Lake Shore Campus, Klarchek Information Commons,
4th floor
http://luc.edu/polishstudies
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Malgorzata Kot, Head Librarian, The Polish Museum
of America
Paderewski at The Polish Museum of America in Chicago (PMA)
Teresa Kaczorowska PhD, Author,
Poet, Journalist; Academia Europaea Sarbieviana, Ciechanow
Relations Between Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Mieczyslaw Haiman,
Founder of the PMA,
and the Creation of the Paderewski Room
Halina Misterka, Archivist, The Polish Museum of
America
I. J. Paderewski Documents at the PMA Archives
Geraldine Balut Coleman PhD, The Polish Museum
of America Board of Directors
Renovation of the Paderewski Room at The Polish Museum of America
2007-2009
10:45- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
I. J. Paderewski: The Chicago Connection
Dr. Dominik Pacyga,
Urban Historian, Columbia College, Author
Introduction: Growth of Chicago between 1890-1910
Victoria Granacki, Historic Preservation Consultant,
Author of "Chicago’s Polish Downtown"
Highlights and Visual Presentation of Paderewski’s Musical,
Political, and Philanthropic Activities
in Chicago
12:15 – 12:45 p.m.
Mira Creech PhD, Historian,
Author and Translator
Ignacy Jan Padarewski and His International Connection for the Service
of Poland and World Peace
12:45 – 1:15 p.m.
Stan Bernacki, Founder
of The Paderewski Association
Paderewski Artifacts and the Polish American History Depository
1:15 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be
provided
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse
Poetry reading featuring George Bodmer, Sharon Chmielarz, Diane DeCillis,
David, Gretchen Fletcher, Katrin Talbot, Maja Trochimczyk; musical
interlude by Kathabela Wilson and Rick Wilson playing Chopin on rare
historic flutes
7:30 p.m.
Concert at Mundelein Center Auditorium,
1020 W. Sheridan Road, Chicago
Presented by:
Loyola University Department of Fine & Performing Arts
Faculty Members: Haysun Kang, Anthony Molinaro, Cameron Smith,
and HingHuan Xu
The LIRA Ensemble, Artists-in-Residence, Loyola University
Chicago
Pawel Checinski, Pianist
Please Make reservations at LUC.tix.com
or call Box Office 773-508-3847
