1
December
Penderecki Rock Star
Imagine Beethoven conducting a composition of his at an open-air concert for 50,000 rock fans? (...Wellington's Victory came close.) Penderecki is a classical composer who has flirted at times (haven't we all?) with cross-over stuff and in his about-to-be-released video bio, there he is, coalescing his sounds (more or less) with the Rockers.
He emerges untarnished.
He emerges untarnished.
22
November
Grand finale at the National Opera
It will not only be a great gala, but most of all a meeting with Penderecki’s most wonderful music: from Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima to Credo. Before us, the final concert of the jubilee, Krzysztof Penderecki Festival.
For a start Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. Another work written in the period of fascination with avant-garde. And another that raised outrage and objections. “This young composer, for unclear reasons, uses instruments in a way which is not intended for them,” wrote Zygmunt Mycielski. “Today it sounds funny – is it not the purpose of instruments to produce sound?
For a start Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. Another work written in the period of fascination with avant-garde. And another that raised outrage and objections. “This young composer, for unclear reasons, uses instruments in a way which is not intended for them,” wrote Zygmunt Mycielski. “Today it sounds funny – is it not the purpose of instruments to produce sound?
