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

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.