Tribute to I.J. Paderewski With April 20 Concert Event
The American Embassy and the Muzeum Wychodżstwa Polskiego im. Ignacego Jan Paderewskiego presented a concert and tribute to the contributions of Ignacy Jan Paderewski to Polish-American relations and world affairs on the evening of April 20. Paderewski was rightly known as a masterful pianist, celebrated composer, gifted orator, tireless philanthropist, exemplary patriot, and respected statesman. The concert was preceded by short remarks by Ambassador Victor Ashe and others focusing on Paderewski’s life and on his role as a friend of the United States and of several American presidents. American virtuoso pianist and Paderewski expert John Robilette played a program selected from Paderewski’s repertoire, including pieces by Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Saint-Saens, and Paderewski himself.Speakers at the event included U.S. Ambassador Victor Ashe; Paderewski biographer Professor Marian Marek Drozdowski; Anna Niewiadomska, Director of the Department of International Cooperation in the Polish Ministry of Culture; and – by speaker phone from the United States – General Edward Rowny, President Ronald Reagan’s former envoy to Solidarity and author of It Takes One To Tango (released in Polish in March 2007 as Tango z Niedżwiedziem).
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