La Folle Journée de Varsovie: Smykofonia – On How Duende the Sprite Danced with Gnomes (34)

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

29 September 2024 Sunday 10:00 EARTH Hall (Młynarski Hall)

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Madrugada Sombra:
Wiktoria Kwiatkowska voice, dance, palmas
Kamila Olewińska voice, dance, palmas
Anika Kamińska percussion
Maciej Wieżyński guitar
Wojciech Jankowski flute

Ada Wdziękońska host

The Duende spirit wandered from distant Spain through mountains, valleys and forests until he reached our Polish meadows. He was lucky enough to meet dancing gnomes, who offered to play with him. What luck! It turned out that Duende quickly learned Polish dances and the gnomes – those from Spain. Auntie Ada and the Madrugada Sombra group will tell the story of how it was.

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.