La Folle Journée de Varsovie: In the Beginning Was Blues (50)

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

29 September 2024 Sunday 17:30 LOVE Hall (Moniuszko Auditorium)

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PERFORMERS:

Chopin University Big Band
Piotr Kostrzewa band leader, artistic direction

PROGRAMME:

John Kander Hot Honey Rag from the musical Chicago [4’]
Sammy Nestico The Queen Bee [5’]
Irving Mills St. James Infirmary [5’]
Henryk Kuźniak Ragtime from the film Vabank [4’]
Glenn Miller Pennsylvania 6-5000 [4’]
Louis Prima Sing, Sing, Sing [4’]
Cole Porter/Artie Shaw Begin the Beguine [4’]
Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington Take the “A” Train [3’]
Cole Porter Love for Sale from the musical The New Yorkers [5’]
Andy Weiner Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’ [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.