Despite escalation of hostilities and focus on caring for refugees, Polish promoters hope Warsaw will remain a must-play market. Polish Music Promoters Vow Not To 'Let Russia Change Our Lives' ...

His grandparents were Polish, but left before the Germans invaded. After their deaths, Zylberberg became curious about their past, and this led to a fascination with the pre-war music scene in Warsaw.

During the Nazi occupation, thousands of Polish artists were killed, several historical artefacts were looted, and many musicians and orchestras were forced to go underground in the face of a cultural ...

As Poland’s independence was being re-established in 1918, a tidal wave of jazz, tango and cabaret was sweeping across Europe from west to east. But it was in the new Polish state, reborn after 123 ...

Szymon Laks, circa 1965. (Courtesy) Polish composer Szymon Laks was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II, and became a conductor for the Auschwitz orchestra.

“Cold War” chronicles a tumultuous 15-year romance between Zula (Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), with their first meeting in 1948 in a desolate and makeshift Polish music academy.

When ‘The Sound of Music’ was released in 1965, it took less than a year to break the record for the best-selling movie of all time. The story of the Austrian Von Trapp family, however, was not the ...

Pawel Pawlikowski follows up 2013's Ida with this tale of Polish musicians living under Stalin; it's "an ode to joylessness that feels historically credible but narratively arbitrary." ...

Poland’s central city of Łódź recently hosted the 9th annual Transatlantyk Festival, an event founded in 2011 by Oscar-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.