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The Mieczysław Weinberg Institute invites you to the 104^th birthday of its patron in Warsaw on December 8-10, 2023. The music and literary programme includes: a concert performed by Ewa Leszczyńska (soprano), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello) and Maria Sławek (violin), a meeting devoted to the poetry of Julian Tuwim and a walk around the area of ​​the small ghetto. Free entrance.

On the birthday Friday at 6 p.m. at Księgarnia Czarnego in Warsaw's Wola district, Dr. Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot (University of Łódź), Agnieszka Kuś and Dr. Aleksander Laskowski (NIFC) will talk about Weinberg's unique relationship with Tuwim's work, how words are translated into music, and also about the importance of Tuwim's poetry for the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto. After the meeting, two song cycles will be performed: "Biblia cygańska" Op.57 and "Stare Listy" op.77, arranged by Maria Sławek.

On the 10^th of December at 11:00 a walk around the small ghetto in the footsteps of Mary Berg will be led by Agnieszka Kuś. We meet in 41 Sienna Street.

On the 8^th of December, 2023 at 19.00 the Symphony Orchestra of the Podkarpacie Philharmonic and the Choir of the Institute of Music of the University of conducted by Tomasz Bugaj will premiere Te Deum by Piotr Moss, who composed the work commissioned by the Podkarpacie Philharmonic. Mariusz Godlewski (baritone) and Ilona Krzywicka (soprano) will perform as soloists.

Ticket information: https://filharmonia.rzeszow.pl/produkt/koncert-symfoniczny-33/ 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The 5th anniversary Christmas Festival "Art Mintaka" will be held on December 8-10, 2023 at the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum. in Bydgoszcz. The latest works by recognized Polish composers will be performed by great instrumentalists. All first-performed pieces were commissioned by the Art Mintaka Polish Chamber Music Foundation specifically for the festival. Free entrance!

For the first time, we will hear Imbody by Nikolet Burzyńska for flute, guitar, cello and tuba, The Oddity of Calabi-Yau by Rafał Gorzycki for flute, guitar, cello and tuba, Quatre chant's sur ce qui n'est plus là by Marcin Stańczyk for four melodic instruments, Revolutions by Aleksander Nowak for flute and tuba.

Detailed programme: www.artmintaka.com 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, the Chair of the Music Theory and History of Silesian Music Culture is organizing from 5 to 6 December 2023 the 7th International Conference "Musical Analysis. Historia-theoria-praxis". The conference will be accompanied by two concerts. The programme of the first will include songs by Witold Maliszewski, while the second will feature works for percussion by contemporary Wrocław-based composers.

The initiative to create an international forum for the exchange of ideas and views on various types of discourse about music was born at the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2008. Subsequent conferences were held in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2021, and were attended by scholars from Europe and both Americas. This year's edition will host researchers from Austria, France, Spain, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the United Kingdom.

The aim of the conference is to present the analysis of a musical work from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The range of issues addressed at this year's meeting is broad. Different research approaches will be presented, including semiotic, hermeneutic, axiological and intertextual ones; the authors will use different concepts and methods of analysing and interpreting a musical work in the search for sense and meaning in music.

Attention will be given to the wide application of analysis, including in the study of the relationship between music and the word, in the exploration of issues of genre, style and compositional technique, as well as those of expression and narrative in music.

The question of performance and reception of music will also be raised.

Project co-funded by the state budget, granted by the Minister of Education and Science under the “Excellent Science II” programme (Polska).

Anna Granat-Janki

Conference programme: https://amuz.wroc.pl/vii-miedzynarodowa-konferencja-analiza-dziela-muzycznego-historia-theoria-praxis-9583/?date=2023-12-05