As an author of four scholarly books and hundreds of articles and book chapters, I'm well established in the music history world, with two main specializations: Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and 20th-century contemporary music (Andriessen, Brant, Lutoslawski, and others). More about that aspect of my life may be found on my website: www.trochimczyk.net. I'm also a published poet, author of two books, an anthology "Chopin with Cherries" and over 70 published poems (plus a thousand unpublished...). I like illustrating my poetry books with photographs, taken mostly in my garden and neighborhood of Southern California. I photograph mountains, clouds, grass, leaves, flowers and treebark, among other things.