April; 2007
Issue 38
In This
Issue:
*Missile Defense Cooperation
*Boss Tweed Group
*Poetry Festival
* Great World Pianists
After discussing the topic of
missile defense for some four years, earlier this year the United States
presented a proposal to Poland and the Czech Republic for the deployment of U.S.
missile defense interceptors in Poland and a radar site in the Czech Republic.
Please see the message from Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe:
Missile Defense Cooperation: http://poland.usembassy.gov/missile.html
Boss Tweed Group in American Corners
The Boss Tweed trio will be touring Europe in March and April of 2007 to promote their new release on Silent Stereo Records. Based in Brooklyn, Boss Tweed plays original songs that stem from the darker side of Americana and roots music. Among other concerts, on April 3 they will play in American Corner in Lodz and on April 4th at 12:00 they will play in American Corner in Wroc³aw, Rynek 58. You are welcome to join, listen to the group and have a discussion on American music.
The Boss Tweed official website with a full schedule of their tour in Europe: http://www.bosstweedband.com/home.html
Each year the Poetry Festival "Port Literacki" in Wroclaw , one of the most important cultural events in Poland, is devoted to various phenomena in the world’s literature. It attracts not only Polish poets but also many from other European countries. This year’s edition, April 13-15, 2007, will be devoted to contemporary American poetry.
The poetic events will be
connected with the promotion of the Anthology of Contemporary American
Poetry: "O krok od nich" translated by the leading Polish translator
of English language literature, poet and literary critic Piotr Sommer.
The book was published by the Wroc³aw editor in fall 2006 and received
prestigious “Pióro Fredry" award. It contains bibliographic and
biographic information as well as critical texts and poems of 10 American
contemporary poets: Charles Reznikoff, E. E. Cummings, John Berryman, Robert
Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch
and
August Kleinzahler.
The program of the festival includes the two documentary films about the poets featured in the anthology (Saturday, April 14, Sunday April 15 at 12:00), an evening
of poetry readings and the presentation of the American poetry anthology by the
translator Piotr Sommer (Sunday, April 15 at 18:00), and the evening with the
festival’s special guest August Klenzahler (Sunday, April 15 at 19:00),
one of the poets
whose works are published in the anthology.
For the detailed information about the festival’s program please see:
http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/imprezy/festiwal.php;
http://www.wywrota.pl/db/news/14166
In the framework of the series
“Great World Pianists” Opole Philharmonic will host the American pianist
John Robilette on Wednesday April 18, at 19:00. The recital, sponsored by
the US Consulate General in Krakow and the Embassy of the United States in
Warsaw will be one of the three concerts that the artist will give in
Poland.
Invited to Poland by the Polish Ambassador in the US and the US Ambassador to Poland,
John Robilette will also play in Warsaw.
John Robilette, who made his debut in 1984 at the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, has been received with great
enthusiasm by the public at some of the most important venues of classical
music in the world, including the Philharmonic of Saint Petersburg, the
National Symphony of Russia, the New Philharmonic of Sophia, Wigmore Hall of
London, and the Library of Congress of the United States. In addition, his
performances have been broadcasted by numerous radio stations in some of the
most important cities of the United States and by BBC in London. Many of
these have been recorded and are available for purchase on CD.
The repertoire for his recital includes works of Schumann, Beethoven,
Paderewski, Chopin and Sant-Saens. The concert in Opole will be free of
charge and open to the public.
John Robilette
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