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Organ Recital
Event Date - 06/12/2010 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
 St. Stanislaus Please be our guest at our upcoming organ recital by Bogna McGarrigle. Saturday, June 12, 2010 – 7:00 pm Tickets are $5 students, $10 KF members, and $15 adults. Members and friends are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, The Ohio Chapter of The Kosciuszko Foundation |
| Organ RecitalBogna McGarrigle, Organist.Saturday, June 12, 2010, at 7:00pmBogna McGarrigle began playing the piano at the age of seven in her home town Debica in Poland. In high school she studied Eurythmics and piano. In 1998 she continued her Eurythmics studies at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland.In 2003 she graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow with a Master’s Degree with honors in Sacred Music and Choir Conducting. While in school, she served as Organist and Choir Director for the Sacred Heart Basilica in Krakow.In 2008, Bogna received a Master’s of Music in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She was awarded a scholarship from The Kościuszko Foundation in New York.In the spring of 2009, she completed her Master’s Degree in Organ Performance at the Academy of Music in Krakow, studying with Professor Joachim Grubich.Bogna McGarrigle has performed at various Polish organ festivals and has given solo recitals in churches and concert halls in Buffalo, Rochester, Pearl River, and New York City. She has also attended and performed at various organ master classes and summer courses in Europe and the US. She also composes her own music inspired by contemporary, religious poetry.
While at Eastman, she was the organist at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spencerport, NY. Currently, she serves as the Music Director and Organist at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Katonah, NY. She lives with her husband Peter in Tappan, NY. Program This program is subject to change. |
Katyń (film) by Andrzej Wajda
The events of The Katyn massacre related through the eyes of the women; the mothers, wives and daughters of the victims executed on Stalin’s orders by the NKVD in 1940. More »
Warszawa Chopina (Chopin’s Warsaw) – Video
Chopin’s Warsaw is a filmic journey around the city of Warsaw in the company of Frycek. That’s the name that was given to Fryderyk Chopin in his youth by his friends and family. See Warsaw, past and present, through his eyes. Discover the city where Poland’s greatest composer spent his youth. More »
The Glory of Poland
My first thought, hearing of the Polish tragedy, was that history’s gyre can be of an unbearable cruelty, decapitating Poland’s elite twice in the same cursed place, Katyn.
My second was to call my old friend Adam Michnik in Warsaw. Michnik, an intellectual imprisoned six times by the former puppet-Soviet Communist rulers, once told me:
“Anyone who has suffered that humiliation, at some level, wants revenge. I know all the lies. I saw people being killed. But I also know that revanchism is never ending. And my obsession has been that we should have a revolution that does not resemble the French or Russian, but rather the American, in the sense that it be for something, not against something. A revolution for a constitution, not a paradise. An anti-utopian revolution. Because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag.”
Jesteśmy z Wami Rodacy – We are with You, Poland
Polsko Amerykańskie Centrum Kultury w Cleveland jednoczy się z całym naszym polskim narodem w żalu i rozpaczy po stracie Prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego i towarzyszących mu osób.
My, Polacy na obczyźnie utożsamiamy się z targającymi wszystkimi Polakami tragicznymi emocjami. Zszokowani wymiarem katastrofy w bólu chylimy czoła i pogrążamy się w żałobie z całą Polską.
Jesteśmy z Wami Rodacy. Współczujemy rodzinom zmarłych. Oddajemy ofiarom katastrofy hołd i cześć – dołączyli oni do pomordowanych w Katyniu. Katyń ma dziś nowy, jeszcze tragiczniejszy wymiar.
Przesyłamy wszystkim Polakom głębokie wyrazy współczucia i szczere zapewnienia o jedności. Do żalu i żałoby w naszych sercach dołączamy słowa modlitwy i do Boga wznosimy ręce prosząc o błogosławieństwo dla naszej Ojczyzny.
Z wyrazami szacunku i współczucia
Zarząd i członkowie
Polsko Amerykańskiego Centrum Kultury w Cleveland More »
President Kaczynski’s last speech
“Dear Representatives of the Katyn Families. Ladies and Gentlemen. In April 1940 over twenty-one thousand Polish prisoners from the NKVD camps and prisons were killed. The genocide was committed at Stalin’s will and at the Soviet Union’s highest authority’s command.
The alliance between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and the Soviet attack on Poland on 17 September 1939 reached a terrifying climax in the Katyn massacre. Not only in the Katyn forest, but also in Tver, Kcharkiv and other known, and unknown, execution sites citizens of the Second Republic of Poland, people who formed the foundation of our statehood, who adamantly served the motherland, were killed.
Cleveland Polsce
Od soboty siedzę przy komputerze i śledzę wydarzenia w Polsce. Na szczęście ciągle pojawiają się nowe wiadomości, nowe zdjęcia, czyjeś reakcje, odczucia i przemyślenia. Szukam tych, które mówią o pojednaniu, o solidarności, o reakcjach współczucia i pomocy. Ktoś na przykład napisał, że Rosjanie nie zmienią już historii Katynia z 1940 roku ale mogą napisać nową o swojej solidarności z Polską 70 lat później. Zamieszczę adresy internetowe artykułów, które ostatnio czytałem. Chciałbym również zwrócić się do Was abyście przesłali do mnie myśli, słowa – to z czym chcielibyście się podzielić z innymi a ja będę umieszczał Wasze listy tutaj, pod tymi słowami…
Mój adres: jrr03@juno.com
Ryszard Romaniuk
Since Saturday I have been sitting at the computer and reading about the events in Poland. New information, new pictures, and more reactions, thoughts, and feelings about the tragic events appear quickly. I look for postings which speak of unity and solidarity and express sympathy. For example, it has been written that while Russia cannot change the history of Katyń in 1940, it is now able to join in Solidarity with Poland seventy years later. Below I have listed links to some of the articles I have read. Please also send me your thoughts on these events, so that we may share them with others and in the newsletter.
Cleveland’s Polish community mourns death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski
John Kuntz / The Plain Dealer Richard Romaniuk, a member of the Polish-American Cultural Center in Cleveland’s Slavik Village neighborhood, places a candle on a memorial for the Polish victims of the plane crash. CLEVELAND, Ohio — A planned celebration at the Polish American Cultural Center Saturday night turned into a memorial observance.
The death of the president of Poland and other top officials in a plane crash today set off a flurry of condolence calls and memorials in the Warszawa Historic District, a former Polish stronghold south of E. 55th Street and Broadway Avenue.
“It’s a tremendous shock,” said Eugene Bak, executive director of the cultural center and museum on E. 65th Street. “Tragedy like this has never happened in the 1,000 year Polish history. Nothing even close.”
The Center had planned a celebration Saturday night of the 200th birthday of composer Frederic Chopin, but quickly altered the program to be a memorial for all of those killed in the plane crash. Though much of the violin and piano music remained, the center changed the poems to be read in the program.
Organizers also added candles and flowers on the stage, along with a large black ribbon draped over panels of red and white cloth representing the Polish flag.
St. Stanislaus Church nearby had a Polish flag flying at half mast this afternoon, right below an American flag. Father Michael Surufka said the deaths will be recognized at services this week, particularly at the regular Polish-language mass at 10 a.m. Sunday.
By Patrick O’Donnell, The Plain Dealer
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/04/clevelands_polish_community_mo.html
April 10, 2010, 6:54PM, Plain Dealer
“The Soviet Story” – Video Documentary
“The Soviet Story” is a startling document of cooperation with the Gestapo, the NKVD before the year 1941. The film tells the story of Soviet domestic terror, the killing of its citizens “on an industrial scale, artificially induced by the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) of a murder at Katyn.
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