The 4th International Conference "Interpretations of a musical work. Nationality versus universal values " will take place on November 27-28, 2018 at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz as a continuation of the series of symposia under the name" Interpretatio artis musicae ".
Igor Stravinsky postulated not to "fetishize one's nationality, because art should strive for universal values and link all people into one community, embracing the idea of beauty and a search for eternal truth and common good". Karol Szymanowski, speaking on the subject of social functions of Polish music, appealed: "let it be «national» in its racial separateness, but let it strive fearlessly where its values become universal." The 21st century, the age of globalization and the universalization of culture, encourages to ask questions about the currency of the discourse that puts on the one scale the artist's national identity and the art he or she creates, and on the other the universalism of artistic attitudes.
During the conference, issues of national identity in music, functions of folklore in creating musical works, aesthetic polemics, which influenced the dissemination of specific attitudes in music, and self-reflection as a testimony of specific aesthetic attitudes will be discussed.
Concerts, including repertoire of works by Polish and Ukrainian composers, are an integral part of the conference.
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