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“Through Music to Freedom: Paderewski and World Politics” in Los Angeles

August 11, 2018

Lecture by Marek Żebrowski

 

 

“Through Music to Freedom: Paderewski and World Politics” a lecture by Marek Żebrowski
Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 2pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Main Library 601 Santa Monica Blvd.

Marek Żebrowski discusses Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) a virtuoso pianist, composer, philantropist and humanitarian, who worked to regain Poland's independence after World War I.

The talk covers Paderewski’s political activities between 1910 and 1922, his role in the “Front Morges” in Switzerland in the 1930s and on his last year of life, when he became a refugee in America.