In this episode you will hear: What is jazz to one of the greatest jazz musicians, born in Poland, living in the US and Canada How being a woman at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries did not stop a Polish scientist from winning two Nobel prizes How can young people make a difference, according to a young Polish Canadian living and working in Brussels Why a Canadian without Polish roots plans to retire in Poland and is studying the Polish language Interviews: • Adam Makowicz, a legendary Polish jazz pianist, talks about his musical path, the role…
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Freedom is what jazz means to one of the greatest jazz pianists, Adam Makowicz, born in Poland and living both in New York and in Toronto. He encountered it and fell in love with it in the communist Poland, where jazz was considered decadent and evil influence of the West. He gave up his classical career and devoted his life to jazz. We spoke to him in the CJRU’s studio in Toronto. This story is featured in episode 9 Adam Makowicz – jazz legend, master of improvisation, piano virtuoso. (born Adam Matyszkowicz; August 18, 1940). Besides playing solo, he has worked with such…
In this episode you will hear: How the Polka dance is not what it seems to be Why some Canadians invest so much time and effort to learn Polish? How a photographer sees her work in our image obsessed world How a famous Polish immigrant helped to change Canada Interviews: • Iwona Malinowski, President of the Polish Teachers Association in Canada, talks about the Polish language School she runs and which we visited to interview her students • Maggie Habieda, a photographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about her work at her Fotografia Boutique studio in Oakville, Ontario, and her ideas about images Also…
This story was fatured in: Episode 8 Maggie Habieda is a creative professional portrait photographer, a successful entrepreneur and a philanthropist. Maggie graduated from the Ontario College of Arts and is an international award winning portrait photographer. Maggie is the owner of the beautiful 1500 square foot Fotografia Boutique, a high end photography studio in Oakville Ontario. Her large framed canvasses, Italian-made designer photo books as well as unique photo purses are her trademark. Maggie’s twenty years of experience in fine art and unmatched combination of creativity and technical skill allows her to capture people as they dream themselves to be seen. …
In this episode we will tell you: How an American professor remembers his three years in Poland which included martial law What Polish invention is commonly used in electronics, and How a Polish Canadian jazz vocalist decided to live in Poland Recording of “Enigma” by Ola Turkiewicz: Robert Murakowski – trumpet, Marcin Riege – piano, Marcin Janiszewski – keyboards, Krzysztof Kowalewski – guitar, Marcin Ritter – bass, Przemek Bembeneq Kuczyński – drums Tomas Celis Sanchez – percussion, string section: Quartette Obligato with guests, featuring Marzena Masłowska on cello. Interviews: • Bernie Koloski, a professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University, Pennsylvania,…
This story was featured in: Episode 7 Bernard Koloski has been writing about American writer Kate Chopin for more than thirty years. A professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, he is the author of Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction and has published editions of Chopin’s At Fault, Bayou Folk, and A Night in Acadie. Since 2005 he has been in charge of the website http://www.katechopin.org In has lectured overseas: as a Fulbright professor in Poland (1981-1984), in India (2012), and as an exchange professor in Russia (1999). Bernard Koloski’s father was Polish and his mother was Slovak, but the parents’ languages were…
This story was featured in: Episode 7 We used to attend her jazz concerts in Canada, every Christmas we listen to her carol album done together with Kabaret pod Bańką’s Magda Papierz (the best carol duo you can imagine!) – and then she left Canada and went back to Poland, the country she was born in but left – first for Italy and then for Canada. Now she is a big shot in Poland and we are lucky to collaborate with her. She composed all our POLcast jingles and everybody loves them (thank you)! On POLcast episode 8 you heard…
In this episode you will hear: • Why the Polish language is perfect for talking to your lover • How being a genius pianist helped in inventing car parts • Why two American girls think it’s cool to be bilingual • How a seminar for curious Polish Americana and Canadians led to a unique online publication Interviews: • Eliza Sarnacka-Mahoney, born in Poland and living in Colorado, a journalist, author and expert on bilingualism, raises two bilingual daughters. We talk to the whole family • Irene Tomaszewski, a Canadian author and historian, talks about “Cosmopolitan Review”, an internet quartely devoted…
This story was featured in: Episode 6 Cosmopolitan Review (CR) is an online journal focused on issues of social, cultural and historical interest by English-speaking writers for English-speaking readers throughout the worldwide Polish diaspora. Established in 2008, cosmopolitanreview.com was proposed by Poland in the Rockies (PitR) alumna, Kinia Adamczyk, as a newsletter for PitR alumni. It quickly evolved into a general interest review, its first edition produced by Kinia, Irene Tomaszewski and Judith Browne with the generous support of webmasters Antoni and Jan and financial support from Friends of PitR. CR’s audience includes readers in 56 countries, the largest number in…
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