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26th Warsaw Music Encounters
2012-05-09
On May 12-19, the Warsaw Music Encounters will be held – an annual festival of old and new music, the creator and director of which is composer Władysław Słowiński, and which is organised by the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers' Union. The concerts will be held at the Royal Castle, the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio, the Evangelical Reformed Church and the Mazovian Centre of Culture and the Arts and will include works by Josquin Deprez and Johannes Ockeghem and also chamber works by contemporary composers such as Paweł Łukaszewski, Władysław Słowiński, Tadeusz Baird, Krzysztof Penderecki, Miłosz Bembinów and others.As the organisers write, “Warsaw Music Encounters is one of the most important festivals of early and new music, but also the first and only one that has made it a principle to combine these two on a regular basis. Thanks to this principle, the Festival provides an opportunity for many early music enthusiasts to get acquainted with contemporary works and discover that they “don’t bite” after all. The Festival admittedly does not map out new trends in music and does not cause scandals, but it is an enjoyable and exciting way of spending time and an opportunity to listen to engaging compositions, both well known and quite new ones. It also provides a chance to meet many interesting personalities, outstanding composers and talented artists.”
Detailed information about the Festival can be found at
http://www.wsm.art.pl/index.php/pl/
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