La Folle Journée de Varsovie
La Danse

(48) Symphony about dance

YOUNG PERFORMERS

Symphony Orchestra of the O. Kolberg Music School Complex in Radom
Przemysław Zych – conductor

Oskar Kolberg: fragments of the operas King of the Shepherds and A Scene in the Tavern
Stanisław Wisłocki: Taniec zbójnicki

Polish Youth Symphony Orchestra of the F. Chopin Primary and Secondary General Music School in Bytom
Maciej Tomasiewicz – conductor

Franz von Suppé: Jolly Robbers Overture
Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Op. 46 No. 7 in C minor (Skočná), No. 8 in G minor (Furiant); Op.72 No. 7 (Kolo)
Johann Strauss Jr: On the Hunt Polka

This is the eighth time already that La Folle Jourée is held in Warsaw. The music festival is addressed to everybody, without exception. What should you expect? Over 1000 artists and more than 50 concerts over only three days. Where? At the Teatr Wielki’s different spaces and on the Teatralny Square. The programme includes a variety of original musical pieces spanning different epochs: you will hear compositions by Chopin, Brahms, Schubert, and Piazzolla performed by world-class Polish and international artists. The theme of this year’s edition is dance, or 'la danse' in French. In the words of René Martin, the festival’s artistic director, 'Dance, especially folk dance, has played a very important role in the development of classical music. If you listen carefully to famous concertos and symphonies, you’ll find elements of dance everywhere. Folk tradition has greatly influenced the oeuvre of all composers’.