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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

~~~~~~~ GALA LUNCHEON ~~~~~~~

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.

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

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.