When Timothy J. Cooley went to Poland in 1992, it was in search of a sound. As a state-employed ethnomusicologist in Illinois, he had heard music from the Tatra Mountains in Chicago’s Polish community ...

A whiff of baking bread smells like comfort food anywhere in the world. At Polkas and Bread, a micro-festival organized by Tucson Meet Yourself, cooks from six cultures will roll out their own take on ...

In the Vocal Music category, tenor Piotr Beczała has two shots at the accolade: for the CD Vincerò! recorded for Pentatone with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana conducted by Marco Boemi, with ...

In commemoration of composer/conductor Witold Lutoslawski's hundredth birth anniversary, Polish musicians will perform a selection of his works at the Cairo Opera House on Wednesday In the classical ...

"Concert Music for Organ and Clarinet: Unknown Soundscapes from Central Europe" will be performed at the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at Saint Mary's College on Nov. 23. SOUTH BEND — Organist Waclaw ...

When Andrzej “Andy” Dylewski arrived in Chicago from Poland in 1986, he thought it would only be for a few months. He’d come for a short-term gig playing drums in the house band at a place called ...

During the past decade, audiences in Champaign-Urbana have heard a number of symphony orchestras from Eastern Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020, rang down the curtain on all guest ...

In this file photo taken Sept. 16, 2013, Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki attends a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. Poland's largest music publisher is commemorating the centennial of the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

SOUTH BEND — Organist Waclaw Golonka and clarinetist Wojceich Kwiatek perform the concert “Concert Music for Organ and Clarinet: Unknown Soundscapes from Central Europe” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 at ...