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Antonina Jakubowska's Dance Theater invites you to the premiere of the performance entitled Lilies with music by Jan Gromski, choreographed by Antonina Jakubowska, created on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballades and Romances. The event will take place on the 23^rd of June, 2022 at 9 p.m. in the picturesque scenery of the Czesław Miłosz Manor in Krasnogruda, on the border of Poland and Lithuania. Admission to the event is free!

In creating the ballad Lilies, Mickiewicz combined romantic idealism with the simplicity of a folk parable. This is also the case in the performance of Antonina Jakubowska and Jan Gromski. There will be references to the musical folklore of the Slavs, processed using specially created electronic sounds. Bogumił Wiśniewski's costumes will be inspired by nature and movement in nature, showing the transition between the real and mystical worlds. Choreography is an attempt to reconcile classical techniques with contemporary dance techniques.

Co-financed by the Government Programme ‘Ballady i romanse’ from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.

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The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic ends its season on the 22^nd of June 2022 at 7 p.m. with a programme featuring the last piano concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which the solo part will be performed by the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires. The last work tonight will be a masterpiece of Polish music of the early 20^th century by Karol Szymanowski. The orchestra will be conducted by its Artistic Director Giancarlo Guerrero.

Karol Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night' was written at a time when the composer was vividly fascinated by the culture of Persia. This fascination was reflected both in the lavish, bold and sensual colours of the sound, as well as in his choice of the text. Szymanowski reached for a poem by the thirteenth-century Persian poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Tadeusz Miciński

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On the 20^th of June, 2022 at 7.00 p.m., on the day when we will celebrate the National Day of Silesian Uprisings for the first time, the Silesian Philharmonic will premiere the Silesian Poem - Korfanty - a word-music piece in five parts based on the texts of Wojciech Korfanty, written by Wacław Golonka, who will also perform on the organ.

Others musicians will be: Grażyna Jursza (flute), Marek Miś (clarinet), Szymon Gaudyn (trumpet), Leszek Salwa (French horn), Grzegorz Kurowski (trombone), Małgorzata Szymecka (drums) and actor Dariusz Niebudek. The concert will be combined with a film screening and the possibility of visiting the exhibition, made available by the Silesian Uprisings Museum in Świętochłowice.

The piece itself was created in 2021 as part of the scholarship of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship. It is based on the texts of Wojciech Korfanty, which deal with the subject of the independence of Silesia and its belonging to Poland.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Culture - Interventions. Edition 2022’ prgramme of the National Centre for Culture Poland.

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the ‘Culture - Interventions. Edition 2022’ prgramme of the National Centre for Culture Poland.

After a note of Marta Szybiak

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Quartessence - a child of the Royal String Quartet - has reached the age of majority. The Birthday Festival will be held between the 20^th and 22^nd of June, 2022 at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio. Admission free!

This year, due to the situation in the world, the birthday festival will be neither grand nor festive. A lot of emotions await us thanks to the music performed by the Hosts, as well as a specially invited guest - Zoltan Almashi - one of the most interesting cellists and composers in Ukraine. Together with the Royal String Quartet he will play the famous Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major, one of the artist's last works. The evening will be inaugurated by Black Angels of Georg Crumb - the composer who died this year, called his work ‘a kind of parable about our tormented modern world’ and wrote about it "in tempore belli" (in the time of war). The composition, created in 1970, was a strong voice of opposition to the war in Vietnam and is unfortunately still valid today.

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Detailed programme: https://royalstringquartet.pl/