Felix Borowski

Felix Borowski was born at Burton-in-Kendal, Westmoreland, England, on March 10, 1872. Borowski studied violin, music theory, and composition in England as well as at the Cologne Conservatory in Germany. After graduation from Cologne he began his career as a violin teacher in Aberdeen, Scotland. Borowski was invited to move to the United States by Florenz Ziegfeld, who was president of the Chicago Musical College at the time. He offered Borowski an instructorship of composition and violin at his school, and Borowski moved to Chicago in 1897 and lived there until his death. From 1916 to 1925 he was the president of the Chicago Musical College and from 1937 to 1942 was Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University. In 1905 he became music reviewer for the Musical Courier. Later he served in similar posts with the Chicago Evening Post, Chicago Record-Herald, the Christian Science Monitor, and in 1942 he became music editor of the Chicago Sun. He was for 48 years the author of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's program notes, starting in 1908. As a composer, Borowski wrote three symphonies, tone poems, a piano concerto, three string quartets, three ballets, one opera, organ works, and numerous pieces for piano, violin, and voice.
Borowski married former violin student Edith Frances Grant of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1897 and had two children, Olga and Leopold. [Edith] died in 1916. Borowski then married Elsa Kanne of Peoria, IL (another violin student of his) in 1920, and the two lived happily in Chicago until Borowski's death on Sept. 6, 1956. Elsa Borowski died April 23, 1981.

The above biography is from The Newberry, the research library in Chicago, on their website: http://mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Borowski.xml. I also found the wikipedia.org article helpful. I accessed both websites June 30, 2016.

Adoration
Jolanta Sosnowska, violin
Maria Kasznia, piano

Sonata No. 1 in A Major
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Reginald Goss-Custard, organ