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  • WINNERS OF KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Penderecki, Ligeti, Berio, Ptaszynska, Chyrzynski, and others).

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • WINNERS OF KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (Penderecki, Ligeti, Berio, Ptaszynska, Chyrzynski, and others).

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • (I actually did like it — the connection between Crumb and Penderecki is an interesting one, and one I've not really pondered.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 35 AM

    Ce n'est pas un concert review Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • (I actually did like it — the connection between Crumb and Penderecki is an interesting one, and one I've not really pondered.) posted by Matthew @ 10: 35 AM

    Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I don't suppose that you would find "Penderecki" in a similar spot anywhere outside Poland.

    Opera Today 2008

  • Penderecki became a composer of severe music relating noise and pain to art.

    Beyond Penderecki Fred Osuna 2011

  • From a window, the young Pole Krzysztof Penderecki saw resistance fighters hanged by Nazis, and neighbors carted off to work camps.

    Beyond Penderecki Fred Osuna 2011

  • Falling flat on the floor, he finished Penderecki's familiar "Cadenza for Solo Violin," segueing into Schnittke's wrenchingly dissonant "Silent Night."

    Violinist Hahn-Bin mixes over-the-top visuals with music at Strathmore 2011

  • The concert features music by Steve Reich and Krzysztof Penderecki, as well as a commemorative piece by composer-performers Ben Frost (Australia) and Daniel Bjarnason (Iceland)—with video manipulations from the Andrei Tarkovsky film "Solaris" created by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson.

    Playing It Unsafe at the Unsound Festival Steve Dollar 2011

  • When conversation turns to the haunting soundtrack Mr. Robertson compiled for Mr. Scorsese's 2010 film "Shutter Island," in which modern classical compositions by John Adams, Morton Feldman and György Ligeti flowed seamlessly into performances by Lonnie Johnson, Johnny Ray and Dinah Washington, Mr. Robertson reveals that he's long studied classical music, and that in the 1970s he'd formed a pen-pal friendship with the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

    Robbie Robertson Looks Back in Song Jim Fusilli 2011

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