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In the face of unprecedented events behind our eastern border the National Institute of Music and Dance offers special programme of free psychological help on-line „wspieraMY Ukrainę".

The programme is aimed at citizens of Ukraine, not only artists, both those who have been leaving in Poland for some time and those who arrived in our country in the last few days. The main purpose of the programme is to recover from the trauma and bring back lost emotional balance and self-determination.

Help available in Ukrainian and Russian.

Appointments can be booked online www.nimit.pl/wspieramy/ by choosing language, psycholog’s name, date and time in the „wspieraMY Ukrainę” category.

Meetings are held on Skype or Zoom and will be appointed right away.

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Jury of the Reverend Prof. Hieronim Feicht’s Competition for 2021 unanimously admitted the main award to Mr Michał Lewicki for  his work ‘Music editing in Cracow in the second half of the 19^th century (unpublished PhD thesis, Jagiellonian University 2021).

Jury members were: Prof. Paweł Gancarczyk, IS PAN (chair), Prof. Teresa Malecka, Prof. Remigiusz Pośpiech, Prof. Violetta Przech, Prof. Zbigniew Skowron, Prof. Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz and Prof. Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, IS PAN (chair of the Musicology Section of the Polish Composers’ Union), Prof. Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka, UMFC.

Jury awarded also honorable mentions to the following participants:

• Agnieszka Cieślak for work ‘Music activity of Bronisław Mirski in American theatres (1914-1927)’ (unpublished PhD thesis, Warsaw University 2020);
• Maria Kozan for work Music Culture of Ostrów Wielkopolski in the first half of the 20th Century’ (unpublished MA thesis, Wrocław University 2021);
• Dominika Micał for work ‘Madrigal in work of the second half of the 20^th and beginning of the 21th century composers. From the genres perspective. (Unpublished PhD thesis, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow 2021)

Congratulations to all Laureates!

Paweł Gancarczyk and Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska

On the 13^th of March in Philadelphia a funeral of George Crumb will take place. The composer died on the 2^nd of February 2022 in Media, Pennsylvania at 92.

He was one of the most important 20^th century composers. His music exceeds the standard meanings of sound structures. He works on culture archetypes, refers to poetical symbols, directs his attention to the sphere of cosmic universum. Since the seventies performances of George Crumb’s compositions have always been significant events in the Warsaw Autumn’s programme.

Mieczysław Kominek

We are very saddened to hear about Ludwik Erhardt’s, our Union friend, death. He passed away on the 12^th of March 2022 at the age of 87 in his home in Lower Silesia.

Since 1965 he has been a Polish Composers’ Union member, in the years 1987–1989 as vice president.

In 1985 he was granted the Union’s annual award – the highest distinction, in 2007 Silver Medal Gloria Artis. He was an author of ’50 years of Polish Composers’ Union’ book gathering information on fundamental activities of the Union in the years 1945-1995.

He will be remembered formostly as the chief editor of the most important Polish classical music magazine ‘Ruch Muzyczny’. Associated with it for 50 years, 40 worked as its chief editor. By collecting columns from ‘Ruch Muzyczny’ he created unprecedented two volume publication encompassing music history titled Spacerem po historii muzyki (A walk through the history of music).

He was also an outstanding music writer, an author of great books among others about Brahms and Stravinsky. In 1975 he published a valuable ‘Encounters with Krzysztof Penderecki’. Publications Music in Poland (1974) and Art of Sound (1980) are also worth mentioning. He shared with his readers his vast musical knowledge and rich journalistic experience.

Recently, in his rural house in Lower Silesia,  he has been contemplating nature and surely listening to music about which he wrote with such great expertise.

Mieczysław Kominek

President of the Polish Composers' Union

National Institute of Music and Dance widens the range of the project ‘wspieraMY Ukrainę’. From the 11^th of March 2022 at the website of the Institute special forms will be available enabling Ukrainian artists now staying in Poland to search for work in the culture sector.

There are two questionnaires available at the website:

1. Ankieta dla artystów - questionnaire for artists looking for employment in Polish artistic groups
2. Ankieta dla instytucji kultury – questionnaire for institutions interested in such co-operation

Collected information will help to create a platform enabling, through exchange of information, contact between Ukrainian artists and Polish culture institutions. The database will be updated continuously.

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