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Polish Music Center Festival of Premieres

Dates: 03/23/2012, 03/24/2012: All day

University Park Campus
Alfred Newman Recital Hall (AHF)

Free


USC’s Polish Music Center presents two days of concerts featuring both California and world premieres.

Friday, March 23, 8 p.m. Somewhere Very Else: The Polish-Lithuanian Connection
Thornton School faculty pianist Aron Kallay will perform a faculty recital of Polish and Lithuanian music. The concert will include premieres by Vykintas Baltakas and Thornton faculty Veronika Krausas and Marek Zebrowski as well as works by Joanna Bruzdowicz, Mikalojus Ciurlionis, and Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki.

Saturday, March 24, 4 p.m. Imaginary Variations & Beyond
In this concert, violinist Janet Packer and pianist Anthony Padilla will present the California premiere of a newly commissioned work by Krzysztof Meyer, as well as the music of Wieniawski and Debussy.

 

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