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THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION
NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
cordially invites you to honor
The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship and Grant Recipients
and
Distinguished Polish-American for 2009
Joseph E. Gore, Esq., Past President and Executive Director
The Kosciuszko Foundation
at a
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Willets-Hallowell Center
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts
and
~~~~~~~~ CONCERT ~~~~~~~
With a Song in My Heart
guest artist
Tadeusz Karol Szlenkier, tenor
Tadeusz Szlenkier, a young Warsaw born artist, is the laureate of many prestigious competitions. He has sung with major orchestras and has had the lead tenor role in Die Fledermaus, Un Ballo in Maschera, Nabucco, The Magic Flute and King Roger in opera houses in Europe and USA. In 2003, at the age of 23, he was invited to perform at the Jan Kiepura Festival, the largest festival in Poland, where he sang for an audience of 20,000. He will present a varied program of arias, Polish songs and tenor classics.
AT 3PM
Abbey Chapel
Mount Holyoke College
luncheon and concert: $50 per person please reply by Friday, March 20
luncheon only: $40 per person
concert only: $15
reservations: (413) 592-0859
Click here to download printable REPLY FORM in PDF format.
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Greetings!
Welcome to the website of the New
England Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation!
The New
England Chapter of the Kosciuszko
Foundation was established in January, 1997 to promote
the Foundation's mission of fostering relations and understanding
between the United States and Poland and increasing American
understanding of Polish culture and history through cultural
events, scholarships and educational grants. |

Thaddeus Kosciuszko
The Public Garden, Boston
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This significant event was enabled through the generosity
of the late Joseph Kszepka of
Three Rivers, MA, who established a fund at the Kosciuszko Foundation
with the sole purpose of forming a Chapter of the Foundation centered
in Western Massachusetts. The goal was realized in May of 1997
with an inaugural concert by the Elsner Quartet, a group of young
musicians from Poland, before an enthusiastic audience of over
400 at Elms College, Chicopee, MA.
Elms College also has been instrumental in the
formation of the new Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation by
offering the expertise of their faculty and staff, and the
use of their facilities for events. We look forward to a long and
productive relationship in collaborative efforts in arranging
and presenting Polish educational and cultural programs.
Since
then our members and friends of the Kosciuszko
Foundation in New England have enjoyed numerous cultural
events, and witnessed our support of social events and our
successes.
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