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Kraków Philharmonic invites you to the first edition of the "Szymanowski / Poland / World" Festival, which will take place on March 26-30, 2019.

The aim of the project is to show the uniqueness and greatness of the Patron of the Philharmonic. Through important artistic events presenting music from 1850-1950, the festival will portray the personality of the author of Stabat Mater as a great humanist with multifaceted interests who inspired artists from various fields of art. 

Szymanowski traveled extensively around Europe, America and North Africa. The conviction that he must "catch up with the international music", as Stefan Kisielewski put it, made him visit many art centers in the first three decades of the 20th century. The next editions of the Festival will attempt to look at these encounters. For the first meeting, the organizers chose the Czech Republic. Szymanowski's relationships with our southern neighbor lasted a quarter of a century. A special place was Prague, where all of his greatest achievements were presented: the National Opera premiered with great success the operas The Highland Robbers and King Roger. The Orchestra of the National Theater in Prague, a continuator of the ensemble that impressed Karol Szymanowski, will conclude the first edition of the "Szymanowski / Polska / Świat" Festival.

Full programme available at: http://www.filharmonia.krakow.pl/Home/8326-Karnety_na_Festiwal_SZYMANOWSKI_%2F_POLSKA_%2F_%C5%9AWIAT.html

The concert "Gloria Patri", organized by the Center for the Thought of John Paul II on March 30, 2019 at 4.00 p.m. in the Temple of Divine Providence, will celebrate not only the 14th anniversary of the death of the Pope, but also the 40th anniversary of his first pilgrimage to Poland. The event takes place as part of the 10th Festival "New Epiphanies".

Eleven Warsaw-based academic and church choirs accepted the invitation to participate in this unique undertaking. Therefore, we will listen to over 400 voices gathered in the temple. The architecture of the church has become the starting point for artistic research. "Choral music is a harmony of many voices that consciously intertwine in one place and time. It is the energy of people who sing together to create beauty. "Gloria Patri" is the largest choral concert in the history of the 'New Epiphanies' Festival" –  explains Jan Krutul, conductor of the Choir of the Center for the Thought of John Paul II.

The programme of the concert draws inspiration from the rosary prayer. It will include Pater Noster by Jakub Neske and Ave Maria by such composers as Tomas Luis de Victoria, Sergei Rachmaninov, Janusz Dąbrowski, Michał Dąbrowski (premiere), Franz Biebl, Daniel Elder, and Javier Busto. The concert will also premiere the polychoral song Gloria Patri by Paweł Łukaszewski, composed to the words of doxology and commissioned by the Center for the Thought of John Paul II especially for the occasion. The concert will end with Zuzanna Falkowska's composition to the words of John Paul II at the Freedom Square in 1979 – Let Your Spirit descend.

Admission free.

More information at: https://noweepifanie.pl/ 

Sensorium – instalacja dźwiękowa Rafała Zapały – będzie prezentowana w dniach 23–26 marca 2019 roku w ramach Linux Audio Conference w instytucie CCRMA na Uniwersytecie Stanforda.

Sensorium to jednoosobowo doświadczana przestrzeń muzyczna (ale też przestrzeń scenograficzna), na którą bezpośredni wpływ mają reakcje biofizyczne zwiedzających. Jest prywatnym doświadczeniem o „antymasowym” charakterze. Jest też instrumentem do interaktywnego słuchania muzyki. Idea jest prosta – zwiedzający/ca steruje strukturą dźwięków poprzez swoje myśli, emocje i reakcje biofizyczne skóry. Muzyka z kolei wpływa na nią/niego w sprzężeniu zwrotnym. Sensorium oznacza więc współcześnie rozumianą podmiotowość rozszerzającą się poprzez zmysły i technologię w sieć relacji ze światem.

Instalacja Zapały wypełniała wieżę zegarową CK Zamek w Poznaniu w latach 2014/15. Funkcjonowała przez ok 1,5 roku w centrum Poznania, jako mała instytucja kultury goszcząc kilka tysięcy zwiedzających. Różne aspekty projektu prezentowane były na konferencjach naukowych, umieszczając pracę w nurcie art&science.

Więcej o projekcie:

https://vimeo.com/109455967 

http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2019/ 

On March 25, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., the artists of the Grand Theater in Łódź will perform as the Vocal Ensemble of the Łódź Chamber Musicians in the programme compsed of works written by Stanisław Moniuszko in the period when he was the organist in the Church of Sts Johns in Vilnius.

In the concert from the cycle "Moniuszkowy zawrót głowy", religious choral songs written especially for the choir of the Vilnius parish will be presented. Although the choir was an amateur ensemble, it successfully performed great oratorios of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Felix Mendelssohn under the direction of Moniuszko. His religious songs composed for the choir were very advanced and ambitious, both artisticaly and in terms of performance techniques.

The Łódź artists will also present choral works of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, including songs dedicated to Our Lady. In addition to Marian Songs, Op. 54, the programme will consist of Totus tuus, Op. 60 – with the text of Maria Bogusławska referring to the words of St. Pope John Paul II, written on the occasion of his pilgrimage to Poland – and Song of Katyn families, Op. 81 composed to the words of the poet Tadeusz Lutoborski.

The tenth, jubilee season of the transmissions and retransmissions "Bolshoi Ballet Live" from the Moscow scene will begin on October 27, 2019 with the HD LIVE performance of Raymonda – a great classical ballet to the music of Alexander Glazunov, rarely performed on western stages due to the extremely high demands placed on dancers.

Traditionally, among the seven presented titles, there will be stagings of great nineteenth-century classical ballets, awaited by ballet lovers all over the world. We will see Piotr Czajkowski's Swan Lake in the new cast of soloists and The Nutcracker around Christmas. Both ballets were choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich, a long-time director of the Bolshoi Theater ballet company. After a huge turnout success and repeated retransmissions, a beautiful romantic ballet Giselle will re-appear on the screens, but in a completely new choreography by Alexei Ratmański. We will also watch a colorful, oriental Le Corsaire – an adventurous story about the pirate Conrad and his beloved Medora abducted to the harem of a sultan.

Following the previous seasons, the programme will also feature 20th-century masterpieces. At the end of the season, the new version of Romeo and Juliet, prepared for the Bolshoi Theater by Alexei Ratmański and broadcast live in 2017, will be screened again. In April, the Jewels – a ballet evening in three parts in George Balanchine's choreography – will shine on the screens. This beautiful spectacle honors three styles of dance, compared to precious stones: emeralds, rubies and diamonds. For over two centuries, the Bolshoi Theater ballet company (the State Academic Grand Theater of Russia) has made a name for itself not only among the dance lovers. The Bolshoi Theater rarely performs outside its headquarters, which is why the annual cycle of transmissions and retransmissions of the most beautiful ballet performances from Moscow has become a real treat for the audiences around the world.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Full schedule of the events is available at: http://new.nazywowkinach.pl/bolsoj/sezon-2019-2020-bolshoi-ballet-live-ogloszony