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There are moments when you want to be part of a com­mu­ni­ty. For many peo­ple, such a moment comes with anoth­er anniver­sary of Poland’s regain­ing inde­pen­dence. Mem­bers of the SIRENES choir looked at songs that were cre­at­ed in piv­otal moments for Poland: legionary, upris­ing, wartime.

Repeat­ing themes are big and impor­tant con­cepts, such as free­dom, strug­gle, home­land, Poland, but also very per­son­al ones — love, long­ing, pain and despair. The vast major­i­ty are pre­sent­ed in a male narrative.

Is the strug­gle for free­dom only a male thing? Are women reserved only for long­ing? How will songs about hero­ism and courage sound when per­formed by a wom­en’s choir? How do we find that sac­ri­fice in con­tem­po­rary times?

These and fur­ther ques­tions arranged the pieces we select­ed into the next parts of the con­cert: COMMUNITY, ANGER and PRIVACY.

Is Poland for you a place of devel­op­ment of deep rela­tion­ships and bonds, a place of meet­ings and con­ver­sa­tions about uni­ver­sal val­ues: free­dom, dig­ni­ty, respect, love?

We invite you to search in con­tem­po­rary arrange­ments of well-known pieces: the strength of com­mu­ni­ty, anger and refusal to accept real­i­ty, the per­son­al dimen­sion of the tragedy that is war.

We hope that you will leave the con­cert with hope and the strength to con­stant­ly change real­i­ty for the better.

Performers

SIRENES wom­en’s choir

Mez­zo-sopra­no/­choir direc­tor: Bar­bara Szpader­s­ka-Choną­ca
Artis­tic con­sul­tant: Agniesz­ka Szcześniews­ka-Miel­carek
Arrange­ments: Michał Martus

Program

The Hun­dred-Year-Old: Rota, Mars­jałkows­ka, Warsza­w­ian­ka, Pieśń Polaków, Pieśń legionów, Pieśń szera, Mogile moja, Do niepodległoś­ci, Tyś jak zmartwych­w­stały Jezus, Szło sie­dem dziew­czyn, Wan­da dziś kończy się two­ja opowieść (arranged by Michał Martus)

Production

con­cept: Agniesz­ka Szcześniews­ka-Miel­carek
pro­duc­tion: Agniesz­ka Szcześniews­ka-Miel­carek
visu­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion: Karol Yamazaki

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Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the War­saw Cap­i­tal City.

Tickets

30 PLN