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2010/03/12
14TH LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN EASTER FESTIVAL
Warsaw and Kraków, March 21 - April 3, 2010 This year, the programmed music events will feature works of Beethoven, along with pieces by other composers, including two of his younger contemporaries Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, whose 200th birthday anniversary is celebrated this year in Poland and Germany. One of the highlights of the this year's Festival will come toward the end of the event with a series of concerts featuring performance of Beethoven's complete symphonies by Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi...
2010/03/12
"BUILDING MEMORY"
Łódź, ms, March 16 - May 23, 2010 "Building Memory" is a video art project in which four artists: Mirosław Bałka, Yael Bartana (Israel), Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania) and Marcel Odenbach (Germany) refer to the problem of places marked by history: buildings, monuments and other silent witnesses of the dramatic events of the last seventy years...
2010/03/12
"ARBEITSTITEL. WORKING TITLE" - PART 2
Stuttgart, Akademie Schloss Solitude, March 11 - April 25, 2010 The exhibition reflects on artistic residencies, institutions that have committed themselves to art as well as daily artistic practice, including both life and work, fallow periods and mobilized activity. The title "Arbeitstitel. Working Title" refers to the artistic processes’ exterior circumstances – for the exhibition, these circumstances are revealed with the terms of studio, private life and travel...
2010/03/11
"IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT?"
Poznań, Galeria Starter, March 12 - March 28, 2010 Krzysztof Zieliński's solo exhibition "Wszystko w porządku? / Is Everything All Right?" opening on March 12 in Poznań's Galeria Starter unfolds another fragment of the artist's ongoing project "Briesen" (1995-2009), a series of photographs in which Zieliński attempts to portray his personal relation with Berlin, where he now lives...
2010/03/11
"ULTRA SILVAM"
Copenhagen, Denmark, WAS - Wonderland Art Space, March 12 - April 12, 2010 "Ultra Silvam" brings together artists whose work focuses on the role and symbolic dimension of nature as reflected in the space of forests, wilderness, and depopulated areas. The exhibition's scenario puts the artists' diverse praxis in the context of literature: fairy tales, myths, and novels...
2010/03/11
TR's "4.48 PSYCHOSIS" IN ENGLAND
London, Barbican Theatre, March 23-27, 2010 In his uncompromising autobiographical approach to Kane’s elusive and elliptical prose poem, the director Grzegorz Jarzyna (TR Warszawa) stages the drama of a woman in the throes of a terrifying psychological ordeal. Throughout the play she confronts a series of figures who try to reason with her: a close friend, a male doctor, another patient, a female lover; until she ends up attacking her own psyche...
2010/03/10
"ALL THAT REMAINS... THE TEENAGERS OF SOCIALISM"
London, Waterside Project Space, March 12 - April 11, 2010 The exhibition presents a young generation of artists from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and the UK exploring 'all that remained' once the political system of their childhood had disintegrated.
2010/03/10
"ORESTEIA" BY ZADARA
Warsaw, Grand Theatre - National Opera, premiere: March 14, 2010 Iannis Xenakis's "Oresteia" directed by Michał Zadara premieres at Grand Theatre - National Opera in Warsaw. Zadara who in 2008 received the Polityka Passport Award in Theatre category is debuting on the opera stage. It will be also the first staging of Xenakis opera in Poland...
2010/03/09
POLISH PAINTINGS FROM SAMMLUNG MARX
Berlin, Polnisches Institut, March 3 - May 28, 2010 The high-profile Sammlung Marx belongs to the most important contemporary art collections featuring works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly. About four years ago the owner of the collection, Dr Erich Marx, became interested in Polish contemporary art. As a result, Sammlung Marx includes presently works by Wilhelm Sasnal, Zbigniew Rogalski, Rafał Bujnowski and Roman Lipski which are now on display at Polnisches Institut Berlin...
2010/03/09
MODERNIZATIONS 1918-1939. THE FUTURE PERFECT
Łódź, ms2, March 11 - May 30, 2010 The exhibition will verify the problem of perceiving Central Europe as a region dominated by traditionalistic art, reluctant to embrace "modernity". The issue of the relationship between modernist architecture and radical programmes of political reforms. The realisations presented in the Museum will, by means of archival photos and architectural plans, remind the visitors of the significance of the modernistic experiment to shaping a new face of Central Europe...
2010/03/09
"TOV" - TEATR CHOREA IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Redcat Theater, premiere: March 18, 2010 The Los Angeles choreographer Rosanna Gamson braids the allegory of regeneration of a Eurasian horse tarpan with reflections on the history of her own Polish-Jewish ancestors, horse traders from Szczecin, and the fate of Polish Jewry. "Tov" takes its title from "Gamzu l’tovah" ("This too is for the good"), a favorite saying of one of Gamson’s forebears, Talmudic scholar Nachum ish Gamzu, who found God’s hand even in tragedy...
2010/03/05
"CARMEN" ACCORDING TO LACO ADAMIK
Kraków, Opera Krakowska, premiere: March 5, 2010 "In our interpretation, Carmen is not a promiscuous girl, she is rather someone who wants to live her life to the full. If you die fast, you also live fast - this, however, doesn't imply your life is superficial", says Laco Adamik about his staging of "Carmen", the most popular French opera of the 19th century, which brought immortal fame to its author...
2010/03/05
"BEATS OF FREEDOM" IN CINEMAS
premiere: March 11, 2010; in cinemas: March 12, 2010 Entrancing documentary about rock music in the age of late Polish People's Republic. The legendary figures of rock underground speak out about their music, life, and the absurds of censorship. From the very beginning, Polish rock opposed the social and political reality of the period. Singing songs was about undermining stereotypes and building closer ties between people...
2010/03/04
PAWEŁ MYKIETYN AT "OTHER MINDS" FESTIVAL
San Francisco, March 5, 2010 Paweł Mykietyn, the most original voice in Polish contemporary classical music and winner of the Polish Public Media Award OPUS, will make his West Coast debut at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, as one of the nine most exciting and innovative composers from around the world. Two works by Mykietyn will be presented during the festival: the U.S. premiere of his stunning "Epiphora" (1996) for piano and pre-recorded media, and "String Quartet No.2"...
2010/03/03
CHOPIN - THE COMPOSER'S WORKSHOP
Paris, Musée de la musique, March 8 - June 6, 2010 This exhibition invites us to explore Chopin's musical world through manuscripts and rare editions from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, enhanced by paintings, drawings and instruments from the period. It leads us to the heart of "Chopin's workshop", exploring the process by which his music was created.
2010/03/03
"WHILE BODIES GET MIRRORED"
Switzerland, Zürich, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, March 6 - May 30, 2010 This group exhibition brings together works that thematise the relation of tension between movement and space, and in so doing take up and reactivate a formalist vocabulary of signs. One focus of the exhibition is the influence of (post) modern dance and choreography in contemporary art. Among the artists are Paulina Ołowska and Anna Molska.
2010/03/02
"THIS PLACE WILL NEVER BE MINE"
Warsaw, Instytut Awangardy, March 1 - March 14, 2010 "This Place Will Never Be Mine" / "To miejsce nigdy nie będzie należeć do mnie" is the title of the fourth exhibition in the "Ideoses" / "Ideozy" series organized by Instytut Awangardy. The exhibition deals with the issue of trash, and how it relates to disgust and sense of strangeness in the contemporary consumer society. The exhibits will be displayed at the Institute, as well as in several other spots in the city...
2010/03/01
CHOPIN BIRTHDAY CONCERTS
Żelazowa Wola, Warsaw, March 1, 2010 It's been a long established tradition of Warsaw's music life to celebrate Chopin's birthday on March 1. This year's celebrations, however, have a special meaning as it's the bicentenary of the composer's birthday with three special concerts programmmed featuring: Garick Ohlsson, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yundi, and Dong Thai Son...
2010/03/01
"CHOPIN IN VIENNA"
Vienna, Haus der Musik, March 4 - April 30, 2010 Three cities played an important role in Frédéric Chopin's life: Warsaw, Paris and Vienna. The exhibition at Haus der Musik is designed as a narrative of the events that took place during his time in Vienna. It draws in particular on the composer's extensive correspondence.
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"BEATS OF FREEDOM" - MOVIE TRAILER
BBC Four documentary "Sacred Music" about Górecki and Pärt
Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski was awarded for the Best Original Score for a Drama Film. The award was presented by International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) for the original soundtrack from Tom Ford’s debut film, "A Single Man".
March 9-21, "Summer at Nohant" / "Lato w Nohant", directed by Hanna Bondarewska, the original play by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, translated by Celina Wieniewska - Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint, Washington, D.C.
TR Warszawa will show its production "4.48 Psychosis" by Sarah Kane, directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna - London, Barbican Theatre, March 23-27.
March 26 and 27 - Paderewski Symphony Orchestra: Celebration of Chopin's 200th Anniversary - Chicago Symphony Center.
March 27 - Chopin Anniversary Marathon: faculty and graduate students performs a variety of solo and chamber music repertoire - Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
March 28 - Lira Ensemble: Chopin Bicentennial Concert - Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago.
The 7th edition of "Misteria Paschalia" in Kraków will take place on March 29 - April 5, 2010.
Yale University Press published "Fellowship of Poets" by Irena Grudzińska-Gross. The book tells the story of a close friendship between two Noble Prize laureates from Eastern Europe, Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodski.
Stephen and Timothy Quay, renowned for their stopped-motion animations and original feature films, are planning a film based on Bruno Schulz's "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass". Brothers Quay are only returning to Schulz; in 1986, they made a name for themselves with the adaptation of Schulz's "Street of the Crocodiles".
Jonas Mekas, a legendary American avant-garde film-maker, will receive SmokSmoków Award - an honorary distinction awarded by the Kraków Film Festival. Mekas will come to Poland in May to receive the award at the 50th anniversary edition of the festival.
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