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The Lutosławski Year Celebrations in Beijing
2004-12-07
On 17 December 2004 the exhibition of photographs entitled „Witold Lutosławski and His Musical Ideas” will be opened at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. The exhibition, prepared by PWM Edition and the Witold Lutosławski Society, presents the life and work of Witold Lutosławski.
On 17 December 2004 the exhibition of photographs entitled „Witold Lutosławski and His Musical Ideas” will be opened at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. The exhibition, prepared by PWM Edition and the Witold Lutosławski Society, presents the life and work of Witold Lutosławski. The opening will feature a concert of Lutosławski’s music performed by Chinese conservatory students. The programme of the concert will include six works (some in fragments): Bucolics for piano, Bucolics for violin and piano, Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano, Partita for violin and piano, Epitaph for oboe and piano and Silesian Melodies for violin. The exhibition is furnished with a Chinese booklet containing explanations of the large-scale photographs; the English version of the catalogue is also available.
On the Chinese part the organisers of the exhibition and the concert are: the Chinese Musicians’ Union and the Central Conservatory in Beijing. Both institutions have cooperated with the Polish musical circles for years, e.g. organising the „Week of Polish Music – Chopin Days” in Beijing in 2002, or the cycle of events „From the Treasury of the Musical Culture of China” in Warsaw in May 2004.
The exhibition will be presented for a week in Beijing: the Embassy intends to repeat the event next year at the musical institutions of other Chinese towns.
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