Martha Gets a Doctorate
To see Martha Argerich on the stage of our own Academy was a wonderful thing. A friend and I noted that throughout the ceremony, Mme. Argerich looked with fantastic and animated expressions at the professors who were speaking in the most fluent Polish (which to a person who does not speak or understand it is quite an experience), lauding her as an artist of the highest quality, whose tremendous accomplishments were meritorious and inspiring to us all. Profs. Jasinski (our de
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit (Mateusz Borowiak)
1. Origins Having chosen three of the poems from Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit, fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot (1836, pub. post. 1842), Ravel composed his own Gaspard de la Nuit (1908), premiered by Ricardo Viñes in Paris (1909). Said Ravel, "Gaspard has been a devil in coming, but that is only logical since it was he who is the author of the poems. My ambition is to say with notes what a poet expresses with words." The frontispiece of the first
