Maja Trochimczyk

Broschiertes Buch

Górecki in Context

Essays on Music

Beschreibung

This volume gathers interviews with and studies of the music of Henryk Miköaj Górecki (1933-2010). Interviews span his career (1962-2008) and studies are by Górecki scholars from Poland, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Chapters highlight three symphonies: the Second Copernican (Kiwäa), the Third Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Trochimczyk) and the Fourth Tansman Episodes (Wendland). Two studies by eminent scholar and Górecki's personal friend, Prof. Teresa Malecka present his links to tradition and his piano music. The volume also includes an overview of Górecki's career, list of works, music examples, portraits, photographs, and a bibliography. Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D., is a music historian, poet, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). Her work on Górecki was previously published in the Musical Quarterly, the Polish Music Journal, and Organized Sound. She published six books on music, six volumes of poetry, and hundreds of articles and poems.

Autor

Maja Trochimczyk, the sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga (2010-2012) and the publisher of Moonrise Press, is a poet, music historian, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California. She published seven books on music, six volumes of poetry (Miriam's Iris, Rose Always, Slicing the Bread, The Rainy Bread, Into Light, and Bright Skies), and four anthologies: Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations (co-edited with Kathi Stafford) and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, co-edited with Marlene Hitt). Her poems appeared in: Altadena Poetry Review, Loch Raven Review, Epiphany Magazine, Lily Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Quill and Parchment, Magnapoets, The Cosmopolitan Review, The Scream Online, The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, Lummox Journal, Phantom Seed, Spectrum, Poezja Dzisiaj, OccuPoetry, Pisarze.pl, as well as anthologies by Poets on Site, Southern California Haiku Study Group, and others. As a music historian, Trochimczyk presented papers at over 90 national and international conferences in Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, U.K., Canada, and the U.S. She received awards and fellowships from ACLS, SSHRCC, USC, McGill University, MPE Fraternity, Polish American Historical Association, City and County of Los Angeles, and Poland's Ministry of Culture. The Senior Director of Planning and Development at Phoenix Houses of California, she also serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. Moonrisepress.com; CaliforniaStatePoetrySociety.com. Recent interviews: shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-music-historian/ (June 2022); voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-maja-trochimczyk-of-moonrise-press/ (October 2021).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Moonrise Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781945938108
• ISBN-10: 1945938102
• Artikelnr.: 50691380