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38th Poznań Musical Spring
2004-03-25
Poznań, 16-25 April 2004
The first „Poznań Musical Spring”, organised in 1961 as part of the 2nd Wielkopolska Region Cultural Festival, presented, above all, the work of Poznań composers. As the years went by, the festival became an important all-Polish artistic event and reached its apogee in mid-seventies of the 20th century: more and more works were commissioned, the programme was broadened to include big oratorio forms, operas and ballets; the most distinguished composers came to Poznań and the concerts were accompanied by musicological conferences.
The organisers of the festival have been trying their hardest to maintain the importance of the „Poznań Musical Springs” by broadening the range of the festival programme to include the classical works of the 20th century, so far unknown to the audiences of Poland and the Wielkopolska region, as well as by the international cooperation with musical academies and the return to the tradition of academic encounters.
For several years the involvement of the festival and the Poznań section of the Polish Composers’ Union in the international cooperation have been growing. The works of young composers from Weimar, Chicago and Cologne have been regularly performed.
Maciej Jabłoński is the director of the festival and Krzysztof Meyer the author of its programme conception.
In this year the repertory will include the works by W. Lutosławski, F. Martin, K. Meyer, M. Ptaszyńska and W. Widłak. The performers will include Andrzej Bauer, Urszula Krygier, Ivan Monighetti, the piano duo Adrianne Soos and Ivo Haag from Switzerland, the Academic Choir of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań under the direction of Jacek Sykulski, „Amadeus” Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Agnieszka Duczmal as well as the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jose Maria Florencia.
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