Klezmer in Krakow
For 18 years, the historic Jewish quarter of Krakow has been home to a Jewish cultural festival -- nine days of dancing, lectures, and concerts. 25,000 people attend, most of them Poles with no Jewish...
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An Artful Ransom Note Generator
Let’s say your roommate still hasn’t returned that copy of Big Trouble in Little China you lent him more than two weeks ago. Logically, you’ll need some sort of passive-aggressive and semi-anonymous...
View ArticleObama Scraps Bush-Era Missile Plan
Yesterday President Obama announced that he is scrapping the Bush administration's plans for a land-based missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. He's opting instead to focus on a...
View ArticlePilot Error Possibly at Blame for Crash
Russian investigators say readings from flight recorders show there were no technical problems with Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Soviet-made plane that crashed during its airport approach on...
View Article#3102: New Releases, July 2010
It's the most wonderful time of the month! For this program, John Schaefer presents the pick of the piles. What we can see from here includes some Bosnian vocal music accompanied by accordion, Balkan...
View ArticleA Film Unfinished
Filmmaker Yael Hersonski, discusses “A Film Unfinished:” her acclaimed documentary about the atrocities in The Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The footage, shot by the Nazis in May 1942, became a...
View ArticlePolish Composer Henryk Górecki Dies at 76
Henryk Górecki, a once obscure Polish composer who went on to become a crossover phenomenon like no other, has died in Katowice, Poland. He was 76.The composer had been ill for some time, but lived...
View Article#3268: New Music from Poland
This New Sounds is full of new music from Poland. We’ll hear from the klezmer and Balkan-inflected jazz-ish strains of Kroke, along with “hardcore folk” from the Warsaw Village Band, whose driving...
View ArticleRepublicans Face Off in Arizona GOP Debate
It has been four long weeks since the last Republican debate. Wednesday's debate was a battle between two men— Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney — who are neck-to-neck in the race for the presidential...
View ArticleWill Racist Soccer Hooligans Tarnish Euro 2012?
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship will kick off a week from today. Normally it's a cause for celebration, but concerns that some racist fans in the host countries of Poland and the Ukraine...
View ArticleRomney's Visit to Poland Applauded in Brooklyn's Greenpoint
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s overseas trip has left his team struggling to explain some of the remarks he made in Great Britain and Israel. But in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, some Poles expressed...
View Article#3268: New Music from Poland
This New Sounds is full of new music from Poland. We’ll hear from the klezmer and Balkan-inflected jazz-ish strains of Kroke, along with “hardcore folk” from the Warsaw Village Band, whose driving...
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Celebrating Poland: An Overview
STREAM Q2 MUSIC NOWThis year marks the centenary of composer-conductor Witold Lutosławski, revered cultural icon and generous patriarch to a generation of younger composers, and the 80th birthday of...
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Lutosławski at 100: I. Early Works and World War II
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: II. The Postwar Period
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: III. Breakthrough to Modernism
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: IV. Consolidating the Mature Style
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: V. Heroism and Dissent
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: VI. The Late Style
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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Lutosławski at 100: VII. Last Thoughts
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100– 24 hours of music hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Curated by composer and Lutosławski...
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