5
October
Super Wiktor award for Krzysztof Penderecki
The Wiktory Award TV Academy, which is comprised of the award winners from the last 25 years, granted the golden Super Wiktor statuette for the most outstanding personality to Krzysztof Penderecki.
The past laureates include the greatest Poles of the last quarter of the century: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Lech Wałęsa, John Paul II, Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polański, Jerzy Waldorff, Stefan Kisielewski, Gustaw Holoubek, and Czesław Niemen.
The past laureates include the greatest Poles of the last quarter of the century: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Lech Wałęsa, John Paul II, Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polański, Jerzy Waldorff, Stefan Kisielewski, Gustaw Holoubek, and Czesław Niemen.
5
October
Nonesuch to Release Collaboration Between Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood in 2012
Nonesuch Records will release an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and composer/Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in 2012 (title and release date TBD). The artists’ work was presented side-by-side in two mid-September concerts, highlighting Penderecki’s influence on younger composers, at the European Congress of Culture in Wrocław. In its report on the Congress, which celebrated Poland’s presidency of the European Union, London’s Independent called Penderecki “Poland’s godfather of the musical avant-garde” and Greenwood “the doyen of English art-pop,” describing their concert as “rapturously received.”











