piątek, 20 sierpnia 2010
Each of the Chopinomania concerts is held in a venue exuding a different ambience and aura. The Astronomic Observatory of the Jagiellonian University is situated on the outskirts of the city, on a hill commanding a beautiful view of Kraków, the Camaldolese Monastery, and the Vistula River Valley. The audience are encouraged to take a look ...
środa, 18 sierpnia 2010
About seven years ago, I witnessed a concert of Fryderyk Chopin’s music on the apron of Okęcie Airport, shortly after it had been named after the great composer. I was quite convinced that the airport would remain the most special space to have been selected for a presentation of his works. This is no longer the case, as we have the ...
środa, 11 sierpnia 2010
The young Polish painter Jakub Julian Ziolkowski is the subject of quite a bit of buzz and clamor among collectors. (…) After making a splash last year in “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum in Manhattan – where his jewel-toned fantasies stood out amid the prevailing videos, installations and ...
wtorek, 10 sierpnia 2010
“Poland in Pulse” is the motto of this year’s, 25th jubilee Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. The programme invites to discover Poland’s rich musicscape. Eminent Polish soloists, orchestras, conductors, composers, and also the young, rising talents will present music ranging from Baroque to avant-garde, works of Chopin and ...
sobota, 31 lipca 2010
The Chopinomania cycle consists of three concerts of Chopin’s music performed in public space: the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University, middle of the concrete jungle in Warsaw, and The Pier in Sopot. The promotional action preceding the event includes the making of a comic-strip style poster connected to the person of ...
wtorek, 20 lipca 2010
At the Bregenz Festival 2010, Agnieszka Rehlis will perform the role of the young Jewish woman Hannah in Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera entitled The Passenger. The work, based on a short story by a writer and scenarzystki Zofii Posmysz, a former prisoner of concentration camps, is not performed frequently; even though it was written in 1968, ...
