La Folle Journée de Varsovie: Big Band, Big BANG! (56)

The 14th edition of the Festival: ORIGINS | TICKETS AVAILABLE ON EVENTIM.PL

29 September 2024 Sunday 20:30 ETHER Hall (Concert Pavilion, pl. Teatralny) Free Admittance

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PERFORMERS:

Chopin University Big Band
Piotr Kostrzewa band leader, artistic direction

PROGRAMME:

When The Saints Go Marchin In, traditional spiritual [4’]
Sammy Nestico The Queen Bee [5’]
George Gershwin Oh, Lady Be Good from the musical Lady Be Good [4’]
Lil Hardin Armstrong Struttin’ With Some Barbecue [5’]
Cole Porter Love For Sale from the musical The New Yorkers [5’]
Glenn Miller Pennsylvania 6-5000 [4’]
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn Satin Doll [5’]
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Groove Merchant [7’]

Szalone Dni Muzyki (La Folle Journée de Varsovie) returns in 2024 with a rich and varied selection of 56 concerts over a period of three days. This year’s festival theme is Origins. And a journey to the origins is a fascinating expedition! We will wander towards nature: to the murmur of gushing water and birdsong, but also to ancient ways of human communication – primordial rhythm or traditional calling and singing. We will look at traditional instruments and folk inspirations in both classical music and jazz. We will reach out to the great works of the classical canon, such as Bach’s Goldberg Variations (no. 51), Mozart’s operas (no. 9), the symphonies of Beethoven and Dvořák (nos. 23, 47), Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (no. 27), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (nos. 32, 53) and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (nos. 1, 48, 55). These are “original” works for the cultural formation of modern audiences, and they are an inexhaustible mine of inspiration for subsequent generations, drawing on these sources to the fullest.