I accumulated a small collection of CDs that were sent to me throughout the year and they make up a nice variety of music in various genres. There is music for the organ, for piano solo, violin and piano, for voice, as well as jazz.

The one that has special meaning for me is a copy of the January 2, 2003 program, "The Polish Art Song" that was aired on Public Radio Station NQED-FM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It features soprano Barbara Nowicki accompanied by pianist Jon Verbalis. Barbara also wrote the program notes which were read by Dr. Donald Mushalka, president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation, who sponsored the program. It is a one-hour program of songs from the 19th and early 20th century, providing an excellent sampling and history of Polish art songs. Barbara begins with two vocal Polonaises by Prince Michael Oginski, followed by one or two songs of Maria Szymanowska and the great Chopin who wrote 19 of them, four of Moniuszko songs, one each of Niewiadomski, Paderewski, Noskowski, Pankiewicz, Zelenski and Rozycki, and three by Karlowicz and four by Szymanowski.

What is special about this disc is that Barbara Nowicki visited our Polish Music Center at USC about ten years ago to research the Polish art song. Our Walter Martin Collection of over 3,000 Polish art songs was a great help to her. She came from the East coast for a two-day visit and stayed seven days. She said that we had enough material here to write not one, but seven dissertations. She went back home to New Jersey, where she is a wife and mother, and pursued a doctor's degree at Columbia University in New York city. Last year she graduated with a Doctorate degree in music and sent me a copy of her dissertation on the Polish art song. It is a fantastic piece of work. There has been no book published in English on Polish art songs and I had always planned to have one of the monographs of the Polish Music History Series devoted to this subject. Plans are now underway to prepare such a monograph for publication. This CD is and the book will be a fine example of the fruit of our endeavors at the Polish Music Center.

A very interesting CD, "Organ Music by Composers From Poznan" features Elzbieta Karolak on the organ. It represents three generations of composers connected with the city of Poznan and the organist performs on three different organs in that city, either newly built or re-built by Jan Drozdowicz. The composers featured here are: Mieczyslaw Surzynski (1866-1924), Stefan Poradowski (1902-1967), Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946), Barbara Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk (b. 1946), Rajmund Pietrzak (b. 1965) and Zbigniew Kozub (b. 1960).

Some of our readers may find the name of Barbara Zakrzewski familiar. Yes, Dr. Zakrzewska is our former librarian at the Center and now resides in California. She wrote the beautiful "Magnificat" in 1982 and it has been performed many times in Poland, Germany and Denmark.

I also received a CD of music by another Polish composer, who now lives in Los Angeles. Dr. Marek Zebrowski is also an accomplished piano virtuoso and teacher. He teaches music history at UCLA and worked at our PMC last year doing translations and helping Dr. Trochimczyk with the editing of two monographs of the Polish Music History Series: The Songs of Szymanowski and Life and Works of Jozef Koffler. Dr. Zebrowski was also born in Poznan, educated in France and the U.S. and has been living in the U.S. for more than twenty years now. He taught at Harvard U. and MIT and was a frequent lecturer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is well-known throughout Europe as a composer. His piano composition "Ex tempore" won 2nd Prize at the International Composition Competition in the Hague, Netherlands. He also received the Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Italy in 1997, during which time he composed two song cycles for baritone and piano. "Leaving Alexandria" is a selection of poems by the Greek poet, Constantine P. Cavafy and translated into English by Theoharis C. Theoharis.

It is beautifully sung by Chris Pedro Trakas, who has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, New York city Opera, Long Beach Opera, Frankfurt Opera and performed at the Barbican Center in England and at the Spoleto Festival. The CD also includes Schumann's "Dichterliebe." It is on a Titanic label. The composer superbly plays the part of the accompanist in this interesting vocal work.

I also received a copy of our local pianist, Wojciech Kocyan, playing Scriabin, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. My only disappointment is that there is no Polish composer here and we all know how well the pianist plays Chopin and Paderewski, having been a winner of the Paderewski International Competition in Bydgoszcz some years ago. The interesting point is that this is on a very good new Polish label, DUX, and it is good to see the cooperation between the pianist, who was born in Poland (but who continued his graduate studies at USC and is now teaching at Loyola-Marymount U.) and his mother country. The program notes are in Polish and English; however, the artist's biography is only in Polish.

The next CD was also released by DUX. It features the music of Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) and played by Bartlomiej Niziol, violin and Waldemar Malicki, piano. According to the program notes, "In 1991, three years before graduating (with honors) from the Music Academy in Poznan, Niziol astonished the musical world by winning the Wieniawski International Violin Competition." One of the youngest artists to have done so, Niziol has gone on "to win other competitions which led to engagements throughout the world." Another product of Poznan's music culture!

Last year when the "Pianist's" son, Andrzej Szpilman came to a concert in Encino where his father's Concertino for piano received its California premiere, he brought me a 5-CD album of his father's music. This is a superb collection of Szpilman's music and a historical example of his artistic talent as an outstanding performer and composer.

Two of the CDs contain the "Pianist's" songs: 19 of his most popular ones performed by various artists and ensembles (including Mieczyslaw Fogg, and Irena Santor) and 9 songs written especially for children. These were all taken from Polish Radio archives from the years 1952-1979. Two of the CDs show off his talent as a chamber music player. First in sonatas for violin and piano with violinist Bronislaw Gimpel; second with three other top Polish string players playing Brahms and Schumann quintets. The fifth CD shows off his talent as a virtuoso pianist, playing his own Concertino for piano and orchestra, which he composed in 1940, and in the Rhapsody by Rachmaninov for piano and orchestra. As a soloist we hear him in Schumann's Fantasie and Chopin's Nocturne and Mazurka.

We also know that there was a recital of Szpilman's songs in Los Angeles featuring Canadian pop star, Mona Lands, which received a good review in the LA Times. Wladek Juszkiewicz, director of the Polish Film Festivals here in LA, sent me a copy of this CD which contains 12 songs written by the "pianist" after the war in the '40s and '50s. New English language lyrics were commissioned and a new version of these songs was produced and sung and played in all new settings.

Last, but not least, I received a CD from artist-musician Janusz Supernak of San Diego. When I saw the name, Darek Oleszkiewicz, as one of the performers I knew this was going to be good. Entitled, "My Lullaby" it features pop vocalist Agnieszka Skrzypek and Tomasz Szukalski on tenor sax, pianist Michal Tokaj, Darek Oleszkiewicz, bass and Lukasz Zyta, drums. The last lullaby was arranged by Darek, who also has his own LA Jazz Quartet and teaches at Cal Arts. It is very easy listening and has a pretty groovy sound. I should probably try and see if my triplet grandchildren would fall asleep to them.

I am especially grateful to all those who sent me the CDs, which will be placed in the Polish Music Center for others to hear and enjoy.

SAINT AMBROSE: A Chamber Opera in One Act, for saxaphonist/actor and recorded electronic computer music

performed by Steve Duke

This chamber opera is based on the life of the famous writer, infamous journalist, and veteran of the horrors of the U.S. Civil War, Ambrose Bierce. Recorded in 2002, it is available on Capstone Records.

Texas Kapela: Old time Texas-Polish fiddle band

A new recording from fiddler Brian Marshall. It is an all-acoustic collection of polkas, songs, and obereks that Marshall learned while growing up in "Texas Polonia". This recording was made on Marszalek Recordings in 2002. Donated by Mark Rubin at Violinsetc.com.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski, ca. 1890. PMC Collection.

Paderewski: Portrait of a Musician" Exhibition was on display at Alfred Newman Recital Hall Gallery at USC from 17 September 2002 to 31 May 2003. Culled from the extensive collection of materials held at the Polish Music Center at the USC Thornton School of Music, this exhibition chronicled the life and career of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the musician-statesman who received an honorary doctorate from USC in 1923. Throughout his musical career Paderewski was actively lobbying for Polish independence; he collected funds to benefit the country, its soldiers and the victims of the war. His campaign resulted in Poland returning to the map of Europe; he then became the first Prime Minister of Poland and the first Polish delegate to the League of Nations. Paderewski's compositions include songs, concerti and piano pieces, an opera, Manru (1901), and Symphony in B minor, Polonia (1907). He also edited a 20-volume anthology of music by other composers and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Chopin's complete works. However, his main title to fame was his talent as a virtuoso pianist; his music was partly preserved on piano rolls and transferred to CDs.

The exhibition presented the composer's historical photographs from 1890-1930s, manuscripts, piano-roll recordings from 1910s, early editions of his music, samples of his editorial work (Chopin, Century Library), concert programs from American tours in 1920-24, advertisements for Steinway, Victor-Victrola, and the Aeolian Co., as well as books and recordings on LP and CD. Californian material linked to Paderewski includes documentation about his honorary doctorate from USC (1923), programs from his Los Angeles performances, and the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles. The Exhibition is illustrated with excerpts from Paderewski's speeches and period writings (poetry and music criticism). It is curated by Dr. Maja Trochimczyk (PMC Director) and Dr. Ljiljana Grubisic (Director of Communications at the Thornton School of Music, with a Ph.D. in Russian literature and ample music background).

• Sławomir DOBRZANSKI: "Maria Szymanowska and Fryderyk Chopin: Parallelisms and Influence"
  The article (awarded the 2001 Wilk Prize in Student Category ex aequo with Grochowska) provides a summary of historical research on possible personal contacts between Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) and Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831). Although there is no direct evidence of an actual meeting between them, several documents and historical circumstances suggest that both composers must have known each other personally. The main body of the article is devoted to a comparative analysis of musical styles of both the composers and to the possible influence of Szymanowska's compositions on Chopin's musical language. Although some of the research is based on previous insights of musicologists such as Maria Iwanejko and George Golos, the author suggests some new possible comparisons. Especially noteworthy is a brief analysis of the melodic material in Polonaises by Oginski, Szymanowska, and earliest Polonaises by Chopin. Szymanowska's works discussed in the text include Vingt Exercises et Preludes, Waltzes, Songs, Mazurkas, dances, and 2 Nocturnes

• Katarzyna GROCHOWSKA: "From Milan to Gdańsk: The Story of a Dedication"
  This article (awarded the 2001 Wilk Prize in Student Category, ex aequo with Dobrzanski) takes up the task of explaining the route by which a Gdansk singer, Constantia Czirenberg, became the dedicatee of Milanese publisher Filippo Lomazzo's 1626 motet anthology, Flores Praestantissimorum virorum. The main tools used for this study are the 17th-century travel diaries and itineraries of Charles Ogier and Prince Władysław IV Waza, both friends and admirers of Czirenberg. While tracing the possible connections between Czirenberg, Lomazzo and Władysław IV Waza, the author concludes that it was the Polish prince who initiated Lomazzo's dedication. This conclusion offers a new perspective on Władysław's well-known music patronage, which this time took place outside the royal court.
  
  Grazyna Bacewicz, ca. 1960. PMC Collection.

• Judith ROSEN: "Grażyna Bacewicz: Her Life and Works"
  This article is an online reprint of a monograph published in 1983 by the Friends of Polish Music at the University of Southern California. The monograph, the first book in English about the noted Polish composer, emphasizes the importance of her place in contemporary music. It discusses her significance as a composer, whose works not only bridged the gap between neo-romanticism and modernism, but also paved the way for the pursuit of new music by the next generation of composers. During her brief life (1909-1969) she lived through the eras of pre- and post- World War II with the accompanying musical freedoms and restrictions. Her musical gifts, both as composer and performer, and her exceptional strength of character are explored in a discussion of her life. The large quantity and excellence of her compositional output (in spite of the difficult times in which she lived) are highlighted with quotes from well-known personages and interesting anecdotes. The original monograph included an introduction by Witold Lutosławski as well as extensive lists of compositions and recordings and a selected bibliography. The present edition contains Lutosławski's introduction, a different selection of illustrations than in the original edition, and an updated bibliography by Maja Trochimczyk and James Harley.

• Adrian THOMAS: "File750: composers, Politics, and the Festival of Polish Music (1951)"
  This article (awarded the 2001 Wilk Prize in Professional Category) is based on a file at the Archiwum Akt Nowych in Warsaw, in which details of the commissioning process for the 1951 Festival of Polish Music are contained. File 750 contains documents and letters to and from composers, who in Spring 1950, were invited by the Polish Composers' Union to submit proposals to the Ministry of Culture and Art for works to be included in the Festival. What emerges is an insight into the lives of over 50 Polish composers at a crucial point in the period of "socrealizm." Composers responded to requests for concert music and music of mass appeal in different ways, giving different reasons for their requests for subvention by the Ministry. And the Ministry responded by handing out support which ranged from one-off payments to minor composers to larger amounts spread over several months to more prominent figures. The responses of two composers - Panufnik and Lutosławski - are given special attention because of the new lines of inquiry their letters provoke. The information they contain - and that gleaned in consequence from other contemporary sources - is both surprising and controversial. In both cases, subsequent research will require a revised consideration of the composers' unenviable positions as creative artists in a controlling political context.

• Documentation:
  • Sławomir Dobrzański: Maria Szymanowska - Bibliography
  • James Harley, Martina Homma, and Maja Trochimczyk: Witold Lutosławski - Bibliography
  • Maja Trochimczyk: Andrzej Panufnik - Bibliography
  • Maja Trochimczyk and James Harley: Grażyna Bacewicz - Bibliography

Zygmunt Stojowski, with handwritten music quotation, ca. 1910.

• Maja Trochimczyk (Editorial): "Stojowski, Paderewski and the American Reception of Polish Music"
• Featured Article: Joseph A. Herter: "The Life of Zygmunt Stojowski"
• Book Review: Nicholas Reyland: "A Protean Diversity: Lutosławski Studies"
• Documentation:
  • Joseph A. Herter: "Annotated Catalogue of Works by Zygmunt Stojowski"
  • Joseph A. Herter: "Writings and Lectures by Zygmunt Stojowski"
  • Joseph A. Herter: "Stojowski - A Bibliography"
• Source Readings (1): Maja Trochimczyk, ed.: "Writings by and about Stojowski"
  • Zygmunt Stojowski: "A Master Lesson on Chopin's First Impromptu" (1915)
  • Zygmunt Stojowski: "Paderewski in the Light of my Recollections and Beliefs" (1935)
  • William Armstrong: "Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study" (1906)
  • Maja Trochimczyk, ed.: "Stojowski's American Reviews (1908-1943)"
  • Maja Trochimczyk, ed.: "Stojowski's Program Notes (1913-1916)"
• Source Readings (2): Maja Trochimczyk, ed.: "American Reception of Polish Music, 1902-1944"
  • Jaroslaw Zielinski: "Poles in Music" (1902)
  • Michael J. Piduch: "The Soul of Poland in Music" (1909)
  • Felix R. Łabuński: "Poland's Contribution to Music" (1944)
  • Edward Baxter Perry: "The Story of the Polonaise" (1909)
  • Margaret Anderton: "The Spirit of the Polonaise" (1917)
  • William Mason: "Paderewski: A Critical Study" (1902)
  • Alfred Nossig: "The Secret of Paderewski's Playing" (1902)
  • Fanny Morris Smith: "What Poet is most Akin to Chopin?" (1902)
  • Antonina Szumowska: "An Appreciation of Chopin" (1910)

The Songs of Karol Szymanowski and His Contemporaries is a collection of eighteen essays edited by Zofia Helman, Teresa Chylinska, and Alistair Wightman. The essays deal with various aspects of the song oeuvre of the Polish composer studied in a rich context of literary and musical issues (essays by Tomasz Baranowski, Edward Boniecki, Paul Cadrin, Stephen Downes, Maciej Golab, Danuta Jasinska, Elzbieta Jasinska-Jedrosz, Laura Grazyna Kafka, Daniela Philippi, Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski, Andrzej Tuchowski, Roman Vlad, Adam Walacinski, and Alistair Wightman). Additional texts discuss songs by Szymanowski's contemporaries in Germany, France and Russia, including the Viennese circle, Ravel and Stravinsky (Wolfgang Ruf, Serge Gut, and Alicja Jarzebska). The book is a result of the International Scholarly Symposium, Song in the Oeuvre of Karol Szymanowski and His Contemporaries, which took place in Zakopane, Poland, in March 1997.

The book is available from the Polish Music Center, for $40 (paperback only). ISSN 0741-9945 and ISBN 0-916545-06-7. Table of Contents:

Teresa Chylińska: Foreword
1. Zofia Helman: Karol Szymanowski's Songs in the Literary and Musical Context of His Times (1-10)
2. Edward Boniecki: The Lyrical, Young Poland "I" in Songs by Szymanowski to Words by Tadeusz Miciński (11-23)
3. Danuta Jasińska: Jan Kasprowicz's Hymns in their Interpretation by Karol Szymanowski (24-42)
4. Adam Walaciński: Within Richard Dehmel's Circle: Songs by Schoenberg, Webern and Szymanowski (43-59)
5. Wolfgang Ruf: Richard Dehmel and the Lyricism of New Music (60-72)
6. Maciej Gołąb: Penthesilea for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 18 by Karol Szymanowski-Semantics, Syntax, Form and Compositional Technique (73--83)
7. Daniela Philippi: Szymanowski's Early Songs and German-language Art Song of Musical Modernism (84-98)
8. Tomasz Baranowski: Albert Mombert's "Schlafend trägt man mich" in Songs by Karol Szymanowski, Alban Berg, Grzegorz Fitelberg and Joseph Marx (99-111)
9. Paul Cadrin: Between Dawn and Dusk: "The Song of the Night" and the Symphony at the Turn of the Century (112-121)
10. Alistair Wightman: Exotic Elements in the Songs of Karol Szymanowski (122-134)
11. Roman Vlad: Karol Szymanowski's Four Songs, Op. 41 to Texts by Tagore (135-152)
12. Andrzej Tuchowski: Karol Szymanowski's Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin: Their Structure and Expression (153-166)
13. Stephen Downes: Szymanowski's "Melodic Crisis" (167-181)
14. Mieczysław Tomaszewski: Semplice e divoto-Szymanowski's "Franciscan" Idiom (182-199)
15. Laura Grażyna Kafka: Karol Szymanowski's Children's Rhymes, Op. 49 from the Performer's Perspective (200-209)
16. Elżbieta Jasińska-Jędrosz: Wiedzie nas Haller—An Unknown Song by Karol Szymanowski (210-228)
17. Serge Gut: Hispanicism and Frenchness in Don Quichotte ŕ Dulcinée by Maurice Ravel (229-242)
18. Alicja Jarzębska: Text and Music in Igor Stravinsky's Solo Songs (243-265)
19. Glossary (266-269); List of Songs by Karol Szymanowski (270-282); Index

John Rink: Chopin: The Piano Concertos
(Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Adrian Thomas: Górecki
(Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Adrian Thomas: Górecki 187 pages with 18 page introduction; illustrations, 1 map, detailed list of works, bibliographical references, and index. Series: Oxford Studies of Composers; ISBN: 0198163932 (cloth); 0198163940 (pbk.). LC: ML410.G6448; Dewey: 780/.92.
Górecki, the culmination of Thomas's years of thorough, meticulous, and engaging research, provides a necessary foundation on which present and future scholars can build. This source-book surveys all of Górecki's works, adding background and biographical details where appropriate. But its appeal is such that any reader— musician or not, scholar or amateur—will benefit from Thomas's insights, learn from his observations, and, like the author, come to respect the music of this acclaimed composer on its own terms. Thomas assumes a readership that is fluent in music history, terminology and notation. He includes numerous score examples, often to illustrate the text but occasionally to replace it. The discourse strikes a balance between expressive interpretation and technical description. His discovery of extremely subtle allusions in Górecki's music—a chord drawn from Chopin, a melodic gesture from Szymanowski, or a note or timbre from Beethoven—and his subsequent explication of their import should spur others to delve deeper in the music, rather than merely being satisfied with the intriguing surface qualities. [from a review by Luke Howard]

The Stefan & Wanda Wilk Prizes for Research in Polish Music are sponsored by the Polish Music Center (PMC) at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California and financially supported by the Stefan and Wanda Wilk Endowment Fund. The creators and sponsors of the Wilk Prizes, Dr. Stefan Wilk (radiologist) and Mrs. Wanda Wilk (M.M., music education, USC), initiated the competition for best essays on Polish music written in English by a non-Polish author in 1982. The competition is intended to stimulate research on Polish music in academic circles outside of Poland. The winners include such experts in Polish music as Stephen Downes, Jeffrey Kallberg, Martina Homma, Anne Mc Namee, Barbara Milewski, James Parakilas, Sandra Rosenblum, and others. The prizes are awarded in two independent competitions, each held biennially (in different years):

• Wilk Essay Prizes for Research in Polish Music (yearly till 1999, since then held in odd years) and
• Wilk Book Prizes for Research in Polish Music (even years, starting in 2000).

The prizes are awarded to authors of the best scholarly publications reflecting original research on some aspect of the music of Poland, preferably on a less researched topic or composer. Entries for the Wilk Book Prizes competition may be submitted to the jury by the author, publisher, or a third party. The 2002 competition was open to works published outside of Poland in English, French, or German during the previous five years (1997-2001). Subsequent editions of the competition will be held in "even" years and will include books published in the previous five years. It is notable that three of the current Jury members have won the Wilk Prizes in the past (the remaining one is ineligible, being a Polish scholar from Poland).

DIRECTOR'S PROJECTS

During the Fall 2002 semester Dr. Maja Trochimczyk was on a sabbatical leave, working on a research project for which she received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, East European Committee. The project, entitled Sound Constructions: Image, Number, and Space in 20th-Century Polish Music," is devoted to the use of non-musical imagery in Polish music after World War II, the compositional techniques and ideologies associated with this usage, and the similarities and differences between the approaches to this subject by Polish composers and their Western counterparts. The project is partly based on composers' sketches and other material from the Polish Music Center's collection, as well as on material held at the Sacher Stiftung in Basel and Polish archives.

Dr. Trochimczyk interrupted her leave to supervise the Paderewski Exhibition preparations, edit both issues of the 2002 volume of the Polish Music Journal, and welcome to PMC His Excellency Przemysław Grudziński, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, who visited the Center and the Doheny Library (Special Collections Department) in October 2002.

Dr. Trochimczyk presented the following papers in the academic year 2002/2003:

• "Towards Poland's National Style: Paderewski or Szymanowski?" presented at a session on "Karol Szymanowski," Third International Conference on 20th Century Music, Nottingham, U.K., June 26-29, 2003.
• "Poland's National Composer: Szymanowski or Paderewski?" presented at a session on "Polish National Composers" at the 61 Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2003.
• "How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." Society for American Music, Tempe, Arizona, 27 February 2003.
• "From Mrs. Szymanowska to Mr. Poldowski: Career Choices of Nineteenth-Century Polish Women Composers." Session "Seen and Heard? Women Painters, Performers, and Composers in Poland," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Meeting. 21-24 November 2002, Pittsburgh.
• "How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." American Musicological Society. Columbus, Ohio, 31 October- 3 November 2002.

Recent and forthcoming publications, completed by Dr. Trochimczyk in the 2002/2003 academic year:

• "Chopin and the 'Polish Race' - National Ideologies and Chopin Reception," chapter for Halina Goldberg, ed., The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003 (40 pages).
• "The Question of Identity: Polish-Jewish Composers in California." Forthcoming in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry vol. 19, "Polish-Jewish Relations in North America," Anthony Polonsky, ed. (46 pages).
• Entries on Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Ignacy Jan Paderewski for Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, ed. John Powell (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), forthcoming in 2003.
• "W stronę muzykologii narodowej: muzykolodzy wobec muzyki polskiej," [Towards a National Musicology: Scholars and Polish Music,] the Polish Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka, no. 3-4, 2002 (special double issue dedicated to Prof. Michał Bristiger, on his 80th anniversary): 4-16.
• Review of Karol Berger's A Theory of Art (Oxford University Press, 2001), forthcoming in Muzyka, 2003.