  Concon Member Username: Concon Post Number: 10 Registered: 04-2007 |
While the focus of the CD is on Polish Americans, it integrates the Polish American experience in Detroit with all music forms and current musicians of the 1940s era playing at all of the Detroit area music sites. Without any question, the best presentation of Polish American music and culture combined with cross over contributions, esp. the accordion from our Italian brethren, it will revive pleasant memories for most in whatever community you were raised in America. Probably, we would never have enjoyed the accordion but for the Italian pioneering of this instrument. If anyone knows Ukrainians, they too will be interested as well as Bohemians (Czechs) and Slovaks. Naturally, Hamtramck and its institutions play its usual prominent part. The CD is a more impressive vehicle that a book, which I highly recommend that Laurie Gomulka Palazzolo wrote, The Hornman. See her web site: http://www.hornman-detroit.com /index.cgi?page=Home For those Polish American urban centers, like Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and other cities in PA, NY, CT., this CD should well serve as a model to be used in their community. While the polka is the heart of the Polish American community, the musicians and their education, their sacrifices, and successes are well narrated. While the CD is probably over 30 years late, especially for old-timers, like Eddie (Skorupski) Shell [owners of profitable building materials; president of American Polish Club in Hamtramck and the Polish Century Club, Detroit], to enjoy, their grandchildren will have a much better appreciation of their contribution not only to Polonia but also to America. The ladies did a SUPER marvelous job of integrating the contribution of the Polish musicians to America's music and America's leading band leaders for the third and succeeding Polish generations to be proud of their heritage. However, be warned that the CD is a little over two hours and it may be too rich for one setting. Yet, the CD can be stopped at any time and started at will, at the pleasure of the viewer. And, because, at times, the narration runs so quickly, it may well be necessary for the CD to be viewed several times for total and complete enjoyment because it is packed full of information that we are not used to receiving in machine-gun fashion. Finally, music is so universal that it connects all of us spiritually to one and another binding us as human beings, irrespective of ethnicity transcending nationality. If anyone is truly disappointed with their copy, I will be happy to buy it back. Because I am so convinced of its value, I can easily be so daring. FULL, TWO-HOUR VERSION OF THE FILM FOR SALE IN DVD AND VIDEOTAPE FORMATS FOR The CD cost $20.00 (Tax included) PLUS $5 S & H for a TOTAL of $25.00. CHECK OR CASH ONLY FOR FILM SALES—NO CREDIT CARD SALES CHECK/MONEY ORDER, PAYABLE TO LAURIE PALAZZOLO, TO: Laurie Palazzolo, 32101 Shiawassee Road, Farmington, MI 48336 QUESTIONS: Laurie Gomulka Palazzolo: 248/477-8518 or lauriepalazzolo@hotmail.com |
