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Polish Cultural Institutes
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
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"NEW:" Music works: Krzysztof Penderecki - "Symphony no. 5 'Korean' " commissioned by the International Cultural Society of Korea for the 50th anniversary of liberation of Korea from the Japanese occupation, "Polish Requiem" - each part of it were to be devoted to people or events associated with the Polish tragedies of the period 1970-80 ("Lacrimosa" done for Lech Wałęsa and Solidarity, dedicating it to the memory of the victims of December 1970), "Viola Concerto" commissioned by the government of Venezuela to mark the bicentenary of birth of Simon Bolivar, "Symphony no. 1" premiered in Peterborough by the London Symphony Orchestra; Witold Lutosławski - "Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux" commissioned by Slavko Zlatić, director of the Zagreb Radio Choir, "Musique funèbre for string orchestra" dedicated "à la memoire de Béla Bartók", "Jeux Venitiens" - a breakthrough in his music - inspired by John Cage's original idea to introduce chance - aleatorism - to music. |
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![]() The European Film Academy (EFA) has announced its choice of international EFA Ambassadors. Among the selected distinguished personalities from the world of European film there is Maciej Stuhr. The Polish actor will represent EFA and the European Film Awards at various prestigious events. The Berlin Maxim Gorki Theatre will show Heinrich von Kleist's "Amphitryon", directed by Jan Bosse (November 19, 2009) and Fritz Kater's "Haeven", directed by Armin Petras (November 21, 2009) at Stary Teatr in Cracow. The shows are part of the collaboration between the two theatres, called "Wanderlust". 18th History Book Fairs will take place on November 26 - Novemer 29, 2009, in Warsaw. The inauguratory press conference "History Book Fairs - the new beginning" starts on November 23, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. in Kubicki Arcades at the Royal Castle. 40 short documentary films from 11 countries have been qualified for competition in the 13th International Film Festival "Off Cinema". The Festival starts on November 18, 2009, in Poznań. The former headquarters of the Polish United Workers' Party's Central Comitee, a monumetal building located in downtown Warsaw, near the de Gaulle traffic circle, was on November 16, 2009, inscribed on the list of registered monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship. On November 13, 2009, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bohdan Zdrojewski, signed an agreement, according to which the Ministry shall co-fund the construction of the Centre of Applied Arts and Innovation Centre at the Academy of Fine Arts.
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