This story was featured in: Episode 27 Magdalena Tomsińska Magdalena Tomsinska was born in Poland, where she majored in classical guitar at the Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz and lute at the Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, where she received her Master of Music. She came to Canada in 1992, where she plays professionally and teaches guitar and lute at the Beckett School of Music in Kitchener. Magdalena has performed on renaissance lute, baroque guitar, the orbo and classical guitar with various music groups from Canada and Poland, including Tactus Vocal Ensemble, Nota Bene Period Orchestra and Nota…
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This story was featured in: Episode 27 “This Is Why We Live” An original play that celebrates Nobel Prize winning Polish poet, Wisława Szymborska. Blending three languages, the play merges an original musical score and physical theatre all inspired by the poetry and collage work of a great female voice of the 20th century. In co-production with Tara Arts (UK) and Théâtre de L’Enfumeraie (France), theatre company Open Heart Surgery Theatre will have its Canadian premiere in Toronto and Hamilton this October. Toronto: October 6-9, 2016 at the Theatre Centre Hamilton: October 15, 2016 at Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts. Tickets Open Heart Surgery Theatre…
In this episode you will hear: About a three-language play based on the poetry of Polish Nobel Prize leaureate Wislawa Szymborska premiering in Toronto. About the only Polish military cemetery in North America. About a musician’s fascination with Polish Renaissance and Baroque music. Interviews: • “This Is Why We Live” – a play based on Polish Nobel prize winner Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry staged by Toronto’s Open Heart Surgery Theatre • Magdalena Tomsinska, an accomplished Canadian musician of Polish descent, talks about her love for early Polish music, the lute and her unique research Also in this episode: • “Smacznego” – Peter…
This story was featured in: Episode 26 About Andrzej Krakowski Interview with Andrzej Krakowski part 1 in Episode 25 Two more stories of Poles and their role in creating the film industry: The story of SAMUEL GOLDWYN, creator of several Holywood motion picture studios, such as Paramount Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures, later transformed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: The story of MARK M. DINTENFASS, the founder of Universal Studios:
In this episode you will hear: Why it was Poles and not other nations that built Hollywood, How we need to be careful and beware of linguistic traps About a documentary presenting an incredible role in the world’s history of one of the most well-known Poles. Interviews: • Prof. Andrzej Krakowski (City College of New York), an award winning film producer, screenwriter and director, explains why Polish Jews founded the US film industry • David Naglieri, director of documentary “Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism”, talks about the Polish Pope, his role in histiry and the film Also…
This story was featured in: Episode 26 David Naglieri David Naglieri is an Emmy-nominated documentary film writer and producer whose body of work includes “Guadalupe: The Miracle and the Message”, narrated by Jim Caviezel; “Unbreakable: A Story of Hope and Healing in Haiti”, narrated by Bruce Greenwood; “John Paul II in America: Uniting a Continent”, narrated by Andy Garcia; “Francis: The Pope from the New World”; “For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristeros”; “Road of Hope: The Spiritual Journey of Cardinal Van Thuan”; “A Hand of Peace: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust” and “Opus Dei: Decoding God’s…
This story was featured in: Episode 25 Katy Carr performed on September 8, 2016 at the 16th Polish Siberian March of Living Memory, in Bialystock, Poland, attended by 15,000 marchers in memory of the people during WW2 deported to Soviet forced labor camps. Katy Carr – a British singer who sings about Polish history
This story was featured in: Episode 25 Andrzej Krakowski is an award winning film producer, screenwriter and director. His production of a 10-episode dramatic TV series titled We Are New York, which was funded by and produced for the Mayor’s Office of New York, won two Emmy Awards in 2010. He has worked with the greatest people in the world of film. His movies featured top actors, such as Donald Sutherland, Charlton Heston, or Willem Dafoe. Krakowski received his education at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. He studied under several prominent film directors and worked as an intern assistant to Andrzej Wajda during…
In this episode you will hear: How Hollywood was created by Poles – research and two books by a renowned American filmmaker/author That Hell does exist – in Poland How a British singer sang for Soviet gulag survivors in Poland. Interviews: • Prof. Andrzej Krakowski (City College of New York), an award winning film producer, screenwriter and director, talks about his books on the Polish roots of Hollywood • Katy Carr – a British singer who sings about Polish history, talks about her performance at the 16th Polish Siberian March of Living Memory in Bialystok, Poland Also in this episode: • “Smacznego” – Peter and Laura…
In this episode you will hear: How the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren preserve the memory of the “Siberian experience”, the part of Polish history still unknown to the world How a radio show can grow in popularity over 45 years About the world premiere of the latest film by Andrzej Wajda Powidoki (Afterimage) at the Toronto International Film Festiwal Interviews: • Stefan Wisniowski from Australia, chair of the Kresy Siberai Foundation, talks about the need to let the world know about “the Siberian history” – Poles exiled to Siberia • The world premiere of director Andrzej…