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Poetry Readings In the future: November 12, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries IV" group reading at the Chopin and Paderewski Conference, Loyola College, Chicago, Ill. September 26, 2010 - "Blue Moon Anthology" reading, Bolton Hall, Tujunga, Village Poets Monthly Series, 4:30 p.m. September 12, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries III" group reading at Beyond Baroque, 3 p.m. August 15, 2010 - Summer Poetry at the Lions' Club Watermelon Festival, Sunland Park, 2 p.m. In the past: June 5, 2010 - "Poetry Booth: Maja and Friends" at Puppetry Festival, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga.With poets Marlene Hitt, Justin Kibbe, Don Kingfisher Cambell, CaLokie, Beverly Collins, and Sharon Rizk. May 23, 2010 - "Village Poets Open Reading" at Bolton Hall, Tujunga, 4:30 p.m., presentation as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga May 8, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries II" Music and Poetry at a book publication party, group reading with Chopin's music played by pianist Wojciech Kocyan, Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, CA. See photos from the event in Picasa web album: Chopin II Photo Album. May 8, 2010 - "Awards Ceremony for Local Volunteers," Los Angeles Councilman Paul Krekorian, Field Office, Sunland-Tujunga. Reading of an occasional poem written especially for this event, "Mountain Watch." May 1, 2010 - "Spiritual Quartet" - Group reading with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, and Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Ocean Park Community Church, Santa Monica April 25, 2010 - "Passing of the Laurels" Ceremony, as newly elected Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga for 2010-2012, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga. See the Picasa Photo Album. Read Maja's occasional poem, "What I Love in Sunland" (Word download). April 23, 2010 - "Tour of the World" Reading for Earth Day celebration, Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena, event of Poets on Site. Reading of: "An Ode of the Lost" and "What I like in Poland." April 18, 2010 - "Indian Miniatures" Exhibition at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, Poets on Site Project. Reading of three poems: "Fearful Symmetry in Blue," Condemned" and "A Foreign Tale." April 11, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries I" Music and Poetry at a book publication party, group reading with pianist Neal Galanter, at South Pasadena Public Library, CA. See the Chopin I Photo Album (Picasa web album site). February 16, 2010 - Featured Poet at Azusa Pacific University, Chopin in Music and Poetry, piano recital organized by Roza Yoder and reading of poetry from Chopin with Cherries February 13, 2010 - Poets on Site Reading for two exhibitions at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena February 7, 2010 - Featured Poet at Beyond Baroque, Venice, California. January 9, 2010 - "Immigrant Experience in Poetry" special session at the Annual Meeting of the Polish-American Historical Association, San Diego; with Oriana Ivy, Lillian Vallee, and Linda Nemec Foster. September 26, 2009 - APT Gallery, Torrance, Poems for "Henry Fukuhara Annual Watercolor Workshop at Manzanar Internment Camp" Poets on Site chapbook event. Reading for Awards Ceremony of LA City Councilman Paul Krekorian, May 2010. August 22, 2009 - Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, Poets on Site Chapbook Presentation - Permanent Collection Audio Tour: 11 poems published in the Chapbook (Magnolia Courtyard, Horse of the Earth, A Cricket Sings, The Prayer Horn, The Mask of Chung, Illuminata, Deer in Flight, Buddha with Swans, The Arms of Mercy, Phoenix Dance, Exit Tanka). Listen to "Illuminata" and read the poem on Pacific Asia Museum website: Himalayan Art (Yab Yum and Crown). August 9, 2009 - Radomir Luza's No-Ho Poetry Spectacular, North Hollywood. Featured Poet. Worshop reading from Rose Always in preparation for a stage version. August 2, 2009 - Kath Abela's Poetry Salon, Pasadena, Chopin with Cherries Lecture and Book Project Presentation July 22, 2009 - Upward Bound, Occidental College, guest poet for a high school class of Don Kingfisher Campbell (love poems, with examples by Sappho and from The Song of Songs) July 12, 2009 - Pacific Asia Museum, Ganesha: Remover of Obstacles Exhibition, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation (On Fear of Contentment, On Ganesha's Wisdom, The Soil of Faith) June 6, 2009 - Featured Poet at Emerging Urban Poets, Pasadena Public Library, Santa Catalina Branch, 999 E. Washington Blvd., 2 p.m. May 30, 2009 - Group Reading for "Bodies Mapping Time: New Portraits of Women" by J. Michael Walker, at Avenue 50 Studio, 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042, 7:00 p.m.(For Kim, For Lois, and two love poems) May 23, 2009 - Memorial Day Weekend Small Press Festival, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St. Santa Monica, CA 90405. Reading and Moonrise Press presentation April 4, 2009 - Altadena Public Library, Poetry and Cookies Publication Party, Group Reading (Tulip Dust, The Taste of the Sky) April 2, 2009 - Napa Elementary School, Northridge, 5th Grade - Poets in the Classroom, site visit and teaching session, reading 4 poems (The Crown, In Passing 6, haiku, The Arrow) March 7, 2009 - Pasadena Public Library, Catalina Branch, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly no. 41, Publication Party October 26, 2008 - Pasadena Central Library, guest host, reading "Colors of the Fall" collection and guests. September 12, 2008 - Featured Poet, Pasadena Library, semi-staged reading from Rose Always. September 6, 2008 - Torrance Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery, Exhibition from the 11th Annual Henry Fukuhara Workshop: Expressions and Interpretations of Alabama Hills, Manzanar, and Keeler, Poems on the work of 40 artists on site, including Henry Fukuhara, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation August 23, 2008 - Chaffey Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA - Milford Zornes, World War II Art, in India, China, Burma, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation August 5, 2008 - Featured Poet, National Night Out, Allendale Branch, Pasadena Public Library, semi-staged reading from Rose Always, with Engleman July 26, 2008 - APC Fine Arts Gallery, Torrance, Three Generations: Ron Libbrecht, Bill Anderson, Milford Zornes, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation May 4, 2008 - Pacific Asia Museum, Poems for Otagaki Rengetsu, Ceramic Artist and Poet, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation April 24, 2008 Fish Canyon Falls, Ten Thousand Villages, Earth Day Poems, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation March 1, 2008 - San Marino Gallery, Pasadena, Milford Zornes 100th Birthday Exhibition, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation February 24, 2008 - Pasadena Museum of California Art, Milton Zornes Watercolors Exhibition, Poets on Site Reading and Chapbook Presentation January 28, 2008 - Featured Poet, Monday Night Poetry, Santa Catalina Branch, Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena Reading from Poets on Site Chapbook for Japanese Gifts Exhibit, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, February 2010. Conference Papers: In the future: "Images of Paderewski: From Archangel to Statesman" and "The Tragedy of Manru," at the Chopin & Paderewski Conference, Loyola College, Chicago, November 11-13, 2010. In the past: "Chopin in Polish-American Poetry: Lost Home, Found Beauty." Paper and presentation of anthology Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse at the joint conference of Polish American Historical Association and Jagiellonian University, June 26, 2010, Krakow, Poland. "From 'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in English-language Poetry." Paper and presentation of anthology Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse at the 3rd International Chopin Congress, February 25-March 1, 2010, Warsaw, Poland. "An Archangel at the Piano: Paderewski's Image and his American Audience." Paper read at the 124th annual meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, San Diego, January 8, 2010. "Celebrity in Decline: Paderewski's Musical and Political Reception in America 1919-1939" ("Muzyczna i polityczna recepcja Paderewskiego w Ameryce 1919-1939,") paper read at the Third Conference "Topos narodowy w muzyce polskiej, 1919-1939", Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland, November 16-17, 2009. "From 'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in English-language Poetry." 67th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Jersey City, New Jersey, 14 June 2009. "1968 - Operation Danube, ISCM, and Polish Music." International Conference "Polish Music After 1945" Christ Church University, Canterbury, U.K., May 2, 2009 "Marta Ptaszynska's Music for Percussion." 63rd Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, New York, 3-4 June 2006. "The Impact of Polish State Ensembles, Mazowsze and Slask, On Folk Dance Movement in the U.S." Session on "Polish Dance in the U.S." at the 62nd Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005. "Paderewski and Nossig, Szymanowski and Fitelberg: Polish - Jewish Collaborations in Music." Session on "Jewish Presence in Polish Music" at the 62nd Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005. "Chopin, Paderewski and Southern California," presentation at "The Image of Poland" seminar, University of La Verne, May 14, 2005. "Lutoslawski's Manuscripts in Los Angeles: Compositional Revisions to Novelette and Paroles tissées," Symposium of International Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia, 14 July 2004. "Towards Poland's National Style: Paderewski or Szymanowski?" presented at a session on "Karol Szymanowski," Third International Conference on 20th Century Music, Nottingham, U.K., June 26-29, 2003. "Poland's National Composer: Szymanowski or Paderewski?" presented at a session on "Polish National Composers" at the 61 Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2003. "How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." Society for American Music, Tempe, Arizona, 27 February 2003. "From Mrs. Szymanowska to Mr. Poldowski: Career Choices of Nineteenth-Century Polish Women Composers." Session "Seen and Heard? Women Painters, Performers, and Composers in Poland," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Meeting. 21-24 November 2002, Pittsburgh. "How Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of America's Gilded Age." American Musicological Society. Columbus, Ohio, 31 October- 3 November 2002. "Paderewski in Poetry: From Master of Harmonies to Poland's Savior." Session on "Paderewski and Sembrich." Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002. "Paderewski and Stojowski: A Musical Friendship," Session on "Elsner and Stojowski." Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002. "Towards A National Musicology - Scholars and Polish Music" invited paper for a commemorative conference "History in Musicology - Musicology in History" dedicated to Prof. Michal Bristiger, Institute of Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences; 10-12 December 2001, Warsaw, Poland. "Musical Poetry of Cracow: Ewa Demarczyk and 'Piwnica pod Baranami.'" Interdisciplinary panel, "Socialist or Magic Realism? Artist and State in Post-war Krakow," during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies" in Arlington Virginia, 17-20 November 2001. "Folk Song and the Polish Nation: A 20th-Century History." Symposium during Polish Music Festival "In Solidarity", University of California, Santa Barbara, 29 April 2001. "Passion, Mourning, and the Black Angels: Ewa Demarczyk as the Voice of the Nation," at Symposium on Polish (post)modern music during a festival "Poland: Music, Lyric, Nation," University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities, 21 April 2001. "Political, Aesthetic, and Ethical Aspects of Henryk Gorecki's "Catholic" Music. Session "Catholic Music in Slavic Europe," National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 9-12 November 2000, Denver, Colorado (Also a respondent at another session at the same conference). "Bogurodzica' Reborn: A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music." Intercongressional Symposium, International Musicological Society, Budapest, August 2000 (paper presented in absentia). "Constructing the Immigrant Self: Polish Jewish Composers in the U.S." Session on Jewish and emigre composers at the 58th Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 16-18 June 2000. "Plato, Stalin and Friends: Censorship in Music." Panel on Censorship and Propaganda in the Arts, USC Arts Festival, "The Indelicate Line," USC, Los Angeles, 29 March 2000. "From Circles to Nets: on the Signification of Spatial Sound Imagery in New Music" International Symposium "Sound in Space" - CREATE, Computer Music Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 18-19 March 2000. "Postcommunist and Postmodern: New Music from Poland" Special Session at the 1999 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, November 1999. "Defining a Nation: Polish Communities and Symbols in Music" Panel Session at the 1999 Meeting of the AMS, 4 November 1999 (Session Chair and Organizer). "From Art to Kitsch: Reflections on the Imitations of Chopin's Style" presented at the 2nd International Chopin Congress, organized by Polish Chopin Academy and F. Chopin Society in Warsaw, October 1999. "Chopin and the Polish Race: Political Dimensions of Chopin Reception" presented at session on "Chopin Appropriated" at The Age of Chopin: The Chopin Sesquicentennial Symposium Indiana University, Bloomington, September 1999. "Chopin and Women Composers." Special Session "Context and Reception of Chopin's Music" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, New York, June 1999. "Parallels and Intersections: Constructing New Forms in Polish Art and Music." Colloquium of Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLa and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (in preparation of the 2002 exhibit), Los Angeles, June 1999. "Poles without the Polka: Cultural Identity of Polish Composers Immigrating to the U.S. during and After World War II." Paper read at the 1999 Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music. Forth Worth, Texas, 13 March 1999. "Penderecki's Ubu Rex and Surrealism in Polish Music Theater." International Conference on Penderecki's Musical Theatre, Cracow, Poland, September 1998. "Composing in Color: Marta Ptaszynska's Liquid Light." Invited paper for the 1998 "Frau Musica Nova" Conference about "Women Composers of Our Time", Cologne, Germany, October 1998. Conference web site: http://members.aol.com/FrauMusica. Paper also read at the Annual Joint Meeting of the Northern/Central and Pacific/Southwest Chapters of the AMS, USC, 24 April 1999. "The Identity Question: Polish Jewish Composers in California." International Conference "Polish/ Jewish/Music!" November 1998, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Also Conference Organizer and Chair of the Program Committee. Bogurodzica Reborn: A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music. Paper read at an Interdisciplinary Conference The Yearning for the Middle Ages. Org. by Dorothea Redepenning and Annette Kreutziger-Herr, University of Heildelberg, Germany, April 1998. Neoclassicism and Avant-garde?: The Aesthetics of Grazyna Bacewicz" Presented at Women in Music: Music History Symposium during A Day with Women's Music, organized by the Polish Music Center, USC School of Music, Los Angeles, April 1998. "Henryk Gorecki's Multi-Ethnic Concept of Polish Musical Identity" Special Session:"The Appropriation of Folk Music by Eastern European Composers" Invited paper. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 1998. "Gorecki and the Paradigm of the Maternal. Presented at the Gorecki Phenomenon: A Music History Symposium, Gorecki Autumn at USC, 1-5 October 1997, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; also the whole festival's program chair and organizer. Also presented at the Joint Meeting of Southern and Northern Pacific Chapters of the AMS, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 1998. "New Insights into Lutoslawski's Concept of the Sound Plane" 1997 Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory, Phoenix, Arizona (31 October, 9:00-12:00; AMS/SMT Session "Lutoslawski and Schnebel"). Conference Program "Spatiality of Sound and Stream Segregation in Contemporary Music." Paper presented at the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Study Session: "Auditory Scene Analysis: Future Directions for Musicological Research" London, Royal College of Music, 14-20 August 1997. "Dans la Nuit: The Themes of Night and Death in Lutoslawski's Oeuvre." Invited paper for the 1997 International Lutoslawski Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, 27-28 June 1997. "Inter/national Features of the Polish School of Sonorism in the 1960s." Presented at the Session "National Style and International Attitude to Music," the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European identity at the millenium, 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands. "A Mystic in the Cathedral: Musical Memory in Andriessen's Hadewijch." Presented at the Session: "The 20th century and the Middle Ages: Cases of musical memory," the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European identity at the millenium, 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands. "Poland and Holland: Inter-nationalism in New Music" Presented at the Session "Ethnicity and Internationalism in the Arts," the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European identity at the millenium , 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands. "Birdsong, Music, Ecology: Reflections on the Aesthetics of a natural art." Presented at the Haliburton Soundscape Workshop, of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Haliburton, Ontario, 29-31 July 1996. "A Triumph of Modernity: Xenakis's Kraanerg at the Opening of the National Arts Centre." (Paper co-authored with James Harley) Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music Society, Brock University, St. Catharines, 2 June 1996 "The 'Woman Composer' Debate from a Polish Perspective." Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music Society, Brock University, May 1996. "'The living universe:' Natura naturans, natura naturata and Bartok's nature music idiom." British Musicology Conference, King's College, London, 18-21 April 1996. "Romancing Hildegard: Postmodern appropriations of a medieval composer." (co-authored with Catrena Flint) at an Interdisciplinary Conference, The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture, McMaster University, Hamilton, 29-31 March 1996. "Canadian music in a Canadian space: R. Murray Schafer's The Princess of the Stars." 22nd Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Washington, D.C., 21-24 March 1996. "Natura naturata and Natura naturans: musical representation and structural symbolism in Bartok's nature music idiom." Invited paper for the International Bartok Colloquium, Szombathely, Hungary; 3-5 July 1995. "From Postmodernism to Ecomusicology: Towards a New Paradigm in Music Research." Spring Meeting of the AMS New York State--St. Lawrence Chapter, University of Ottawa, 8-9 April 1995. "Bacewicz, Picasso and the Legacy of Desire." The First UK Critical Musicology Conference "Goodbye great music?" Salford, United Kingdom, 1-2 April 1995. "The work of music revisited: Roman Ingarden's phenomenological aesthetics." 1994 Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society, Calgary, Alberta, 3-6 June 1994. "American experimental tradition re-examined: Henry Brant's spatial music." 1994 Conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Worcester, Massachusetts, 6-10 April 1994. "On the use(ful/less)ness of analysis for the performance of 20th-century music (Xenakis, Bartok, Stravinsky)." 1993 Conference of the Canadian University Music Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, May/June 1993. "Technique of comedy in Verdi's Falstaff." Spring Meeting of the NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY-College at Oswego, March 1993. "New music and ideology in Poland--case study: The ISCM World Music Days of 1968." Special Session on "Music, Ideology, and the State in Socialist Europe, 1945-1991" at the Annual Meeting of the AMS in Pittsburgh, November 1992. "The technique of spatial sound movement in the instrumental music of Iannis Xenakis." Fall Meeting of the NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY at Albany, October 1992. "The concept of musical space in music theory and aesthetics (1930s-1980s)." 12th Congress of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, July 1992.

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