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DOI article:Kronika Naukowa Kalendarium
DOI article:Miziołek, Jerzy; Martyn, Peter: Robert Anderson, Awarded the Institute of Art Medal
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aerophones and chordophones would appear to have
prevailed, the very earliest, as well as simplest
Instruments are assumed to have been clappers and
rhytons. It is still impossible to ascertain precisely
the extent to which the musie of Egypt influenced
the classical world, and particular excitement in the
audience was stirred by the emphatic confirmation
that the syrinx, alternatively referred to as panpipes,
were already known to the Ancient Egyptians long
before their first appearance, around 500B.C., in
Ancient Greece. The lecturer was introduced and
ensuing discussion conducted by the Institute of
Art’s current director, prof. Lech Sokół.
Accompanied by a generous selection of non-
alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, cakes and other
snacks, the actual presentation of the Institute Medal
was staged in Director Sokół’s study. With the
formal part of the ceremony over, the distinguished
guest was able to exchange some words with a
significant proportion of his own former guests,
apart from being introduced to one or two futurę
visitors to the houses on Hornton Street or Holly
Terrace. This was an opportunity he very clearly
enjoyed, and one he took fuli advantage of with
a heartwarming openness and candour to demolish
all those stereotypes concerning the cold aloofness
of ‘the English’ that are still actually believed in by
a substantial proportion of Polish, but not only
Polish, academics.
On the following day, Robert Anderson was
given a tour of some of the morę important places
of historie and cultural interest outside Warsaw in
the company and under the guidance of Tadeusz
Zadrożny, an Institute employee and supeiwisor of
the Count Leopold Cicognara book collection
housed on microfiche in the IS PAN Library. Starting
in Łowicz, one of Poland’s morę important regional
centres of folk arts and culture, where he was shown
the rarely accessible cathedral treasury, the esteemed
guest was then driven to the famous Baroque pałace
at Nieborów, whose interiors were remodelled after
1880 to resemble those of an English manor house,
and finally the nearby romantic gardens of Arkadia
with its various architectural follies. Perhaps it ought
to be madę elear that dr. Anderson had already
fulfilled his natural duty as a musicologist and madę
the obligatory pilgrimage to the manor house
associated with Fryderyk Chopin at Żelazowa Wola
on one of his previous sojourns in the country.
It is to be hoped that Robert Anderson shall
return in the not too distant futurę to Poland,
undoubtedly certain in the conviction that he shall
always be welcome in this still comparatively poorly
known part of Europę.
Kronika Naukowa
aerophones and chordophones would appear to have
prevailed, the very earliest, as well as simplest
Instruments are assumed to have been clappers and
rhytons. It is still impossible to ascertain precisely
the extent to which the musie of Egypt influenced
the classical world, and particular excitement in the
audience was stirred by the emphatic confirmation
that the syrinx, alternatively referred to as panpipes,
were already known to the Ancient Egyptians long
before their first appearance, around 500B.C., in
Ancient Greece. The lecturer was introduced and
ensuing discussion conducted by the Institute of
Art’s current director, prof. Lech Sokół.
Accompanied by a generous selection of non-
alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, cakes and other
snacks, the actual presentation of the Institute Medal
was staged in Director Sokół’s study. With the
formal part of the ceremony over, the distinguished
guest was able to exchange some words with a
significant proportion of his own former guests,
apart from being introduced to one or two futurę
visitors to the houses on Hornton Street or Holly
Terrace. This was an opportunity he very clearly
enjoyed, and one he took fuli advantage of with
a heartwarming openness and candour to demolish
all those stereotypes concerning the cold aloofness
of ‘the English’ that are still actually believed in by
a substantial proportion of Polish, but not only
Polish, academics.
On the following day, Robert Anderson was
given a tour of some of the morę important places
of historie and cultural interest outside Warsaw in
the company and under the guidance of Tadeusz
Zadrożny, an Institute employee and supeiwisor of
the Count Leopold Cicognara book collection
housed on microfiche in the IS PAN Library. Starting
in Łowicz, one of Poland’s morę important regional
centres of folk arts and culture, where he was shown
the rarely accessible cathedral treasury, the esteemed
guest was then driven to the famous Baroque pałace
at Nieborów, whose interiors were remodelled after
1880 to resemble those of an English manor house,
and finally the nearby romantic gardens of Arkadia
with its various architectural follies. Perhaps it ought
to be madę elear that dr. Anderson had already
fulfilled his natural duty as a musicologist and madę
the obligatory pilgrimage to the manor house
associated with Fryderyk Chopin at Żelazowa Wola
on one of his previous sojourns in the country.
It is to be hoped that Robert Anderson shall
return in the not too distant futurę to Poland,
undoubtedly certain in the conviction that he shall
always be welcome in this still comparatively poorly
known part of Europę.