June 16 - Henryk Czyż (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 16th are found here: Willi Boskovsky (2019) and David Popper (2020)

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Henryk Czyż (pronounced [ˈhɛnrɨk tʂɨʂ], roughly tsheesh) (16 June 1923 – 16 January 2003) was a Polish conductor, composer, and educator, best remembered for his pioneering advocacy of Penderecki and other Polish composers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poles Together

To Henryk Czyz we owe a debt

  For it was he who set the fashion;

He made the first recorded set

  Of Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion.

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Capeesh?

This isn’t the place to unleash

A full-scale assessment of Czyz,

   But composers would say

   That his confident way

   With new works of the day,

   Which he’d frequently play,

   (Whether tame or outré),

   Made it certain that they

Could find a respectable niche.

 

 

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