2018 November PASO Magazine
The Story of Us - a Monthly Look at the Extraordinary Community of Paso Robles.
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The world premiere of Three Paderewskis,<br />
a musical authored by a<br />
creative team from Southern California,<br />
will be staged at Park Ballroom<br />
on <strong>November</strong> 2, and winners of the<br />
Youth Piano Competition will be presented<br />
in a free concert at the PR Inn<br />
Ballroom on <strong>November</strong> 3.<br />
The <strong>2018</strong> celebration also marks<br />
a decade of sister city status between<br />
Paso Robles and Tarnów, Poland, a<br />
relationship signed by former Paso<br />
Robles mayor Frank Mecham at Paderewski’s<br />
estate in Poland. Over the<br />
last ten years, Central Coast sponsors,<br />
the Consulate General of Poland in<br />
Los Angeles, and various partners in<br />
Poland have generously supported this<br />
Cultural Exchange Program. It provides<br />
cultural, educational, business,<br />
and youth development opportunities<br />
and creating lasting bonds between<br />
people throughout the world.<br />
For more details and ticket<br />
information, visit<br />
PaderewskiFest.com<br />
of government. It was Paderewski’s<br />
memorandum to Wilson in 1917<br />
that supported Polish independence<br />
as the thirteenth of Wilson’s<br />
Fourteen Points:<br />
“An independent Polish state<br />
should be erected which should<br />
include the territories inhabited by<br />
indisputably Polish populations,<br />
which should be assured a free<br />
and secure access to the sea, and<br />
whose political and economic independence<br />
and territorial integrity<br />
should be guaranteed by international<br />
covenant.”<br />
In December of 1918, British<br />
Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour<br />
urged Paderewski to undertake the<br />
daunting task of uniting a liberated<br />
Polish nation as its first Prime<br />
Minister. Paderewski agreed and<br />
quickly drew the support of the<br />
allied United States, Great Britain,<br />
France and Italy. Within a year,<br />
Paderewski restored democratic<br />
elections to Poland and established<br />
a Polish national army.<br />
The reinstatement of the Republic<br />
of Poland after 123 years of<br />
partitions was a brief but a pivotal<br />
moment in the hearts of the Polish<br />
people. A country long torn by<br />
tyranny suffered again in 1939<br />
when Nazi Germany invaded Poland<br />
to initiate World War II. Paderewski<br />
responded by creating the<br />
Paderewski Testimonial Fund for<br />
Polish Relief.<br />
Please see Paderewski on page 22<br />
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