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The music of the Polish diaspora
IT was the night of the assassination of Itzakh Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel. I recall the occasion on 4 November 1995 in much the same way...
Contemporary Review, 01/01/04 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
Carl Czerny: composer of the Biedermeier age - Biography
WITH the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert in 1827 and 1828 respectively, Vienna's golden age of music came to an abrupt end. What followed was a...
Contemporary Review, 11/01/02 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
Franz Liszt: A family connection - Karol Bernard Zaluski - Column
WHILE researching the musical history of my family, which goes back to the Polish composer, Prince Michal Kleofas Oginski, I discovered, through my...
Contemporary Review, 07/01/02 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
George Orwell's First Play
IT'S not every day that a parent gets a chance to witness literary history being made at a school play, especially so if that parent's son has a...
Contemporary Review, 06/01/00 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
Wladyslaw Szpilman. Victor Gollancz. [pounds]12.99. 222 pages. ISBN 0-575-06708-X. Wladyslaw Szpilman. Victor Gollancz. [pounds]12.99. 222 pages....
Contemporary Review, 10/01/99 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
Dabrowski's Mazurka And The Serbs
The author examines the history and meaning of Poland's national anthem. Information tracing Poland's political changes, origins of the anthem, and...
Contemporary Review, 09/01/99 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
Camille Saint-Saes: A Life
Brian Rees. Chatto & Windus. [pounds]30.00. 485 pages. ISBN 1-85619-773-5. Brian Rees. Chatto & Windus. [pounds]30.00. 485 pages. ISBN...
Contemporary Review, 08/01/99 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland
Radek Sikorski belongs to the next generation, but his personal story tells of the purgatory that was Communism, as well as the hell that was...
Contemporary Review, 01/01/98 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
A Polish family in music - Prince Michal Kleofas Oginski's musical gene lives on
Poland's Prince Michal Kleofas Oginski's musical gene thrives even in the late 1990s. The prince passed on his musical ability to his daughter,...
Contemporary Review, 02/01/97 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication -
Chopin's Scottish autumn - Frederick Chopin
The last years of Frederick Chopin's life was spent in London, where he was engulfed by the social and cultural activities. His concerts were...
Contemporary Review, 07/01/93 by Iwo Zaluski · More from publication
