In this episode you will hear:
- About a Polish Canadian pianist’s mission to revive the music of Holocaust-silenced or exiled Polish Jewish composers
- Why the Polish language sounds like one long tongue twister
- Why a young Polish Canadian cinematographer chose an unusual career path. From an international cinematography festival to making the right choices
Interviews:
• Daniel Wnukowski, a Polish Canadian pianist living in Vienna, works to revive the unknown music of Jewish composers exiled during WWII
• Bartosz Pawlowski, a young Polish cinematographer based in Toronto, talks about the Camerimage Festival in Poland and the reasons for his unusual career path
Also in this episode:
• The Polish language – the sounds that don’t exist in English and the resulting problems in mastering Polish
• The names of Polish cities and towns that have funny meanings