NEARLY THIRTY YEARS AGO I wrote an article for this magazine introducing Andrzej Panufnik, as a worthwhile composer then new to me. Since then he has grown tremendously, in range and in stature. He is Polish, and that bulks large in his music, as it does in the work of any Polish composer; but he is more than that—he is a world artist, and it seems propitious now to examine some of the music that has proved this increase in stature.