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The Independence Cantata „..only truth and memory!” will be performed on November 4, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Saint Andrew the Apostole Church in Porąbka Uszewska and on November 11, 2018 at 5.30 p.m. in the Communal Cultural Center in Borzęcin.

The composition will be presented by the Crushed Sounds BigBand Youth Orchestra, soloists and reciters under the direction of Dariusz Swoszowski. The soloists will be: Izabela Sacha, Kinga Gurgul, Anna Sowa-Gurgul, Agnieszka Myrlak, Karolina Płaneta. The cantata consists of 17 different parts, featuring selected patriotic poems and songs arranged by Dariusz Swoszowski. The author of the libretto is Agnieszka Sowa. Admission free!

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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The premiere of the music and dance spectacle Wyśniłem sen o Niepodległej (I dreamed a dream about the Independent) will be held on November 10, 2018 at 5.00 p.m. in the Artus Court in Gdańsk under the National Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda in the 100th Anniversary of Regaining Independence.

The spectacle consists of patriotic songs compiled by the composer Kamil Cieślik who is the music manager of the project. The author of the script and the director of the show is the director of the Open Theater in Gdańsk, Dariusz S. Wójcik. Apart from the popular patriotic songs performed by the instrumental group "Mea Patria" and soloists, there will be songs and piano works by Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Fryderyk Chopin, Stanisław Moniuszko and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The spectacle will include poetry by C. K. Norwid, K. Wojtyła, M. Konopnicka and Cz. Milosz and the performance of the Song and Dance Ensemble "Jantar" of the University of Gdańsk.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

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As part of the 7th International "Discovering Paderewski" Festival, on the centenary of regaining independence by Poland, on November 11 and December 12, 2018 at the National Opera in Kiev and the Lviv Opera House, a full stage version of the opera Manru by Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be performed by world-famous artists from Poland and Ukraine.

The pre-premiere of Manru took place in Dresden on May 29, 1901. The premiere of this work for Polish audience (with Polish libretto) took place on June 8, 1901 in the Lviv City Theater (currently Lviv State Academic Theater of Opera and Balett named after Salomea Kruszelnicka). Later, Paderewski's opera was successfully staged in various European countries.

The performance on November 11, 2018 will be the result of cooperation between the Polish-Ukrainian Foundation of Ignacy Jan Paderewski with the Lviv National Opera and the Grand Theater – National Opera in Warsaw. The artistic director of the first Polish-Ukrainian co-production of the only opera by Paderewski is Jerzy Maksymiuk, the director – Wasyl Wowkun, set designer – Maciej Walczak. The Polish-Ukrainian cast will include: Maciej Tracz (Ulana), Łukasz Motkowicz (Urok), Natalia Dacko (Jadwiga), Ludmiła Ostasz (Aza), Jurij Trycecky (Oros), Igor Mihnevych (Jagu). The Ukrainian Festival Orchestra and the Galician Academic Chamber Choir will perform under the direction of Natalia Ponomarchuk.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: www.paderewski.eu 

Guitarists Marcin Kuźniar and Andrzej Grygier will perform on November 7, 2018 at 7.30 p.m. at the NOSPR headquarters in Katowice during the concert from "The Youth's Wednesday" series organized by the Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia".

Shortly after the end of the seventeenth edition of the Silesian Guitar Autumn, the NOSPR Chamber Hall will host a concert of the finalist and laureate of the Jan Edmund Jurkowski International Guitar Competition. Andrzej Grygier, who won the second prize at the competition, is a student of dr. hab. Łukasz Kuropaczewski at the Academy of Music in Poznań. Since 2009 he has won over twenty guitar competitions, including the world-renowned International Guitar Competition in Zagreb this year. He will perform, among others, Cavatina by Alexander Tansman. Marcin Kuźniar, a graduate of the Katowice Academy of Music in the class of prof. Alina Gruszka and prof. Marcin Dylla, is the finalist of this year's Tychy contest. Recently, he premiered his album Song without Words, featuring compositions by Mertz, Ligeti, Schubert, Bennett, Rawsthorne, Arcas and Tárregi.

More information at: https://www.silesia.art.pl

Marnie is another contemporary work staged at The Metropolitan Opera that is inspired by a film script. Nica Muhly's new opera is based on Alfred Hitchcock's movie and the novel by Winston Graham. Broadcast to cinemas around the world will be held on November 10, 2018. In the Praha Cinema, it will take place at 6:35 pm.

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

A symphonic concert on 8 December 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sudeten Philharmonic in Wałbrzych will premiere The Elements (Żywioły) for large orchestra, ethnic and recyclable instruments by Paweł Pudło.

The Elements is a project combining music and ecological education, based on the symphonic poem by Paweł Pudło. This is a musical tale about the forces of nature that have created the world around us for centuries. Earth, water, air, fire and humanity. The symbolism of the elements was used in the project due to its universal recognition, simple association with nature and the possibility of metaphorical, artistic reflection of processes taking place in the environment. The work will be performed by the Sudeten Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and multi-instrumentalist Kamil Rogiński conducted by Bartosz Żurakowski.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: https://filharmonia-sudecka.interticket.pl/

Romantic ballet La Sylfide in the original 19th-century choreographic version will open the season of ballet broadcasts from the Bolshoi Theater on 11 November 2018. In the Praha Cinema, the broadcast will take place at 4.00 pm.

La Sylphide — produced by the prima ballerina’s father Filippo Taglioni — was premiered in Paris in 1832. Two years later, it was seen by August Bournonville, the man who made the name of Danish ballet, who decided to do a version of it for his Company. He did not have enough money to acquire the rights to the score but, nothing daunted, he commissioned new music from a Danish composer. And so — in 1836 — the Danish La Sylphide which was to become famous the world over, saw the light of day. And, thanks to the reverent attitude to this ballet of generation after generation of Royal Danish Ballet dancers, it has been preserved for posterity. La Sylphide is one of the world’s oldest surviving ballets, and a treasure in the Danish Bournonville style. Restaged for the Bolshoi by Bournonville expert Johan Kobborg, this production is the ultimate romantic masterpiece.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: http://www.kinopraha.pl

The "Paderewski to Chopin" exhibition will be held at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum from November 9, 2018 to January 13, 2019.

Paderewski – a pianist, composer and politician, without whom it is impossible to think about Polish independence. What is his contribution to Chopin? This question is answered by the exhibition of memorabilia belonging to the collections of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and the Library of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute: valuable musical manuscripts, concert programmes and preserved iconography. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to look at Paderewski as a performer, editor and promoter of Chopin's legacy, which was a source of inspiration throughout his life. The character of the exhibition is special: some of the artist's souvenirs will be presented for the first time.

The exhibition will be accompanied by Michał Szymanowski's concert on January 8, 2019 at 6.00 pm, featuring works of Fryderyk Chopin and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Admission to the exhibition included in the price of a ticket to the Museum, on Sundays the admission is free

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Information on tickets at: www.chopin.nifc.pl 

"Subcarpathia for the Independent" ("Podkarpacie dla Niepodległej") festival will last until November 10, 2018.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence, the Sucarpathian Foundation for Developement of Culture organized a series of events aimed at deepening the sense of patriotism among the inhabitants of Subcarpathia.

Performed by the Accademia dell'arco Chamber Orchestra from Bydgoszcz, we will hear works by the most eminent Polish composers such as Chopin, Górecki, Ogiński, Paderewski, Twardowski, and Wieniawski. The events will also present the history of the region and personalities who contributed in a significant way to regaining freedom by Poland in the territory of Subcarpathia. The concert will be complemented by a multimedia presentation of the valuable photographs from the period 1860-1920, prepared by the Historical Museum in Sanok. The audience will also have a chance to sing patriotic songs with the accompaniment of the orchestra.

The concerts were already held in Łańcut and Krosno. The next events will take place in Sanok, Rymanów, Przemyśl and Ustrzyki Dolne. Admission free.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

More information at: https://niepodlegla.interpiano.pl/pol