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|  | | A Romantic Century in Polish Music
This volume brings together a series of essays on music making in Poland in the 19th century and early 20th century. Eight studies of diverse aspects of Polish musical culture are presented chronologically from about 1818 to 1939, the outbreak of World War II. Authors, based in Poland, Germany and the U.S. include eminent scholars specializing in Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries: Magdalena Dziadek, Maria Zduniak, Martina Homma, Krzysztof Rottermund, Krzysztof Szatrawski, and the editor, Maja Trochimczyk.
This volume brings together a series of essays on music making in Poland in the 19th century and early 20th century. Eight studies of diverse aspects of Polish musical culture are presented chronologically from about 1818 to 1939, the outbreak of World War II. Authors, based in Poland, Germany and the U.S. include eminent scholars specializing in Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries: Magdalena Dziadek, Maria Zduniak, Martina Homma, Krzysztof Rottermund, Krzysztof Szatrawski, and the editor.br />
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The book begins with an account of the social roles and careers of women compos | |  | | Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse
A poetry anthology celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin. Poems by 92 poets, including classics by Norwid, Eliot, Lazarus and new, contemporary poetry.
| |  | | Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide
Second revised and expanded edition of a research guide to the music of Frederic Fryderyk Chopin, co-authored with William Smialek
| |  | | Gorecki in Context: Essays on Music
Interviews with Polish legendary composer Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki and essays about his music, 420 pages, must read!
span style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This volume gathers interviews and studies of the music of the Polish composer, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010). Contributors include the composer himself – in a series of interviews spanning his entire career, from 1962 to 2008 – as well as leading Górecki scholars from Poland, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Chapters highlight three of the four symphonies: the Second /span>em style="position: relative; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, san | |  | | Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology
Anthology of poetry co-edited by Kathi Stafford, of Westside Women Writers (9 American poets).
span style="color: rgba(10, 16, 26, 0.7); font-family: interface, sans-serif;">"Grateful Conversations" is a portrait of a group of female poets from California, who come together each month to hone their craft and share their verse. Known as Westside Women Writers and active as a group since 2008, they include Millicent Borges Accardi, Madeleine S. Butcher, Georgia Jones Davis, Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, Kathi Stafford, Sonya Sabanac, Ambika Talwar and Maja Trochimczyk. In the words of the WWW founder, Millicent Borges Accardi, this is “a community of women writers | |  | | Meditations on Divine Names
Anthology of poetry by 64 poets from different religious and spiritual traditions, focusing on diverse names of God, and Divine presence in human world.
| |  | | Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden
A collection of poetry describing a mystical journey as stages of love, from Amor, through Eros, to Sophia, the angel of Divine Wisdom. Illustrated with short vignettes of Southern California landscapes. Maja Trochimczyk is a Polish-American poet, music historian and non-profit director based in Los Angeles.
The genesis of this poetry collection includes years of travelling and an internal mystical journey leading to a serene California garden. The map of the stages on the journey outlines the evolution of love, from the most sensuous to mystical. The framework is created by the appearances of six angels: Amor, the angel of romance, Eros, the angel of desire, Eloe, the angel of sorrow, Thanatos, the angel of death, Ellenai, the angel of consolation, and Sophia, the angel of timeless wisdom. Eros and Thanatos are Greek twins, Amor is their baby cousin. Eloe died of sorrow and Ellenai carrie | |  | | Polish Dance in Southern California
This is a historical overview of folk dance ensembles in Los Angeles and the Orange Counties. It stretches back fifty years and examines groups such as Krakusy, Podhale, Górale, and Polskie Iskry; popular Polish dances like Góralski, Zbójnicki, Krakowiak, Kujawiak, and the Polka; and the relationship between Polish models of these dances and their interpretation by modern American ensembles today.
| |  | | Slicing the Bread
A Children's survival manual in 25 poems, this is a description of WWII and its aftermath in Poland, with Nazi and Stalinist oppression, and the resilience of survivors.
| |  | | The Music of Louis Andriessen
This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism and meaning, the use of quotation and writing for the stage and an introduction to his musical language.
This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism and meaning, the use of quotation and writing for the stage and an introduction to his musical language. Four interviews with the editor outline Andriessen's compositional career and interests. Five essays by Maja Trochimczyk focus on various aspects of his music, including minimalism and th | |  | | The Rainy Bread. Poems from Exile
“The Rainy Bread: Poems of Exile” includes 30 poems about forgotten stories of Poles living in the Eastern Borderlands of Kresy, who were killed, deported, imprisoned, or oppressed after the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939. Some of these brief portraits capture the trauma and resilience, ordeals and miraculous survival stories of the author’s immediate family.
| |  | | We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology
Anthology of 80 poets celebrating the 10th anniversary of Village Poets reading in Tujunga, CA, co-edited by Marlene Hitt.
font size="3" style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edited by Marlene Hitt and Maja Trochimczyk, and entitled /font>em style="position: relative; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">font size="4">We Are Here: Village Poetry Anthology/font>/em>font size="3" style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, this collection presents 80 poets featured during the monthly readings at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga, CA as well as the group of current and former Poets Laureate of Sunland |
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Dream Wanderer
by Boyd London
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 Jack London’s cousin writes a heartwarming, young adult story about the glory of life. It is also a heart-pounding adventure to a new and strange world. |
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