Willa Moniuszki. Podwieczorek muzyczno-architektoniczny

Hash­tag Lab and the Archi­tec­ture Cen­tre Foun­da­tion invite you to a musi­cal-archi­tec­tur­al after­noon tea orga­nized on the occa­sion of the reis­sue of the book OCH. Illus­trat­ed Atlas of Ocho­ta Architecture.

As reg­u­lar vis­i­tors will know, Hash­tag Lab is a com­mu­ni­ty cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion, a space for the prac­tice of con­tem­po­rary music. It is housed in a recent­ly ren­o­vat­ed mod­ernist vil­la in Stara Ocho­ta. For years its own­er, Antoni Moniuszko, ran a cul­tur­al salon here, fre­quent­ed by War­saw intel­lec­tu­als, includ­ing out­stand­ing 20th-cen­tu­ry com­posers such as Krzysztof Pen­derec­ki and Witold Lutosławs­ki. And it is with music by those and oth­er com­posers that we wish to cel­e­brate this Sun­day noon the reis­sue of the atlas, in which one of the Ocho­ta objects described is the very vil­la of Antoni Moniuszko — a build­ing unlike any oth­er, aston­ish­ing­ly designed and still con­ceal­ing secrets; described in the first edi­tion of the atlas as “hid­den behind a fence” and “falling into dis­re­pair,” and in the reis­sue — as pul­sat­ing with musi­cal life.

Con­ver­sa­tion and a tour

Par­tic­i­pants will include the authors of the atlas: Mateusz Bzówka and Eweli­na Klećkowska.

Café, foy­er con­ver­sa­tions, book sales, autographs

Con­cert program:

Witold Lutosławs­ki 6 melodii ludowych for string quar­tet (arr: Marcin Markowicz)Krzysztof Pen­derec­ki Trzy utwory w dawnym sty­lu Rox­an­na Panufnik Olivia for string quar­tet and voices

Per­form­ers:

Poldows­ki String Quartet:

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­li­nA­ga­ta Krys­tek vio­lin Dami­an Kułakows­ki vio­laDo­minik Pło­cińs­ki cello*

*guest per­former

Match Match Ensemble:

Sopra­nos­Alek­san­dra Dro­gosz-Szy­mańskaKon­stanc­ja Molewska­Maria ZłotekAltosS­mał­gorza­ta Bartkowska­Marzena Lewandowska­Mar­ta Schnura

Lil­ian­na Krych conductor

Pro­duc­tion:

Artis­tic con­cept and text: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka, Agniesz­ka Ras­mus-Zgorzel­s­ka, Lil­ian­na Krych­pro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka, Agniesz­ka Ras­mus-Zgorzel­s­ka, Lil­ian­na Krychvi­su­al iden­ti­ty: Peter Łyczkowskisound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Stander­a­co-orga­ni­za­tion: Cen­trum Architek­tu­ry­The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL.

Find out more about the artists and works:

Poldows­ki String Quar­tet — a string quar­tet found­ed by four lovers of cham­ber music: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka (vio­lin), Aga­ta Krys­tek (vio­lin), Dami­an Kułakows­ki (vio­la) and Mateusz Błaszczak (cel­lo). The ensem­ble’s patron is Irene Poldows­ki, an unjust­ly for­got­ten com­pos­er, the youngest daugh­ter of Hen­ryk and Izabela Wieniawski.

Match Match Ensem­ble — a vocal ensem­ble engaged in explo­rations in the area of con­tem­po­rary, ear­ly and oper­at­ic music and at the bound­aries of the arts. Through its activ­i­ty it influ­ences the chang­ing per­cep­tion of clas­si­cal music as a domain for the cho­sen few, for the under­stand­ing of which one must be superbly edu­cat­ed and sensitized.

The Atlases

The illus­trat­ed atlases of War­saw archi­tec­ture were con­ceived by graph­ic design­er Mag­dale­na Piwowar. We have been pub­lish­ing them for eleven years. First came SAS, then ŻOL, MOK, OCH, POW, PRA, ŚRÓD PN and MUR. Atlas pre­mieres are accom­pa­nied by orig­i­nal archi­tec­tur­al walks, artis­tic-edu­ca­tion­al events and pod­casts pub­lished on the pod­cast Radio Architek­tu­ra web­site (www​.radioar​chitek​tu​ra​.pl). The pub­lish­er is Cen­trum Architek­tu­ry (https://​cen​tru​mar​chitek​tu​ry​.org/).

About the works:

W. Lutosławs­ki — 6 melodii ludowych

Zalot­ny; Ach, mój Jasieńko; Hej, od Krakowa jadę; Gaik; Gąsior; Rektor

The select­ed works come from the cycle of minia­tures Melodie ludowe, orig­i­nal­ly com­posed for piano in 1945. They rep­re­sent the ear­li­est — folk­loris­tic — peri­od of Witold Lutosławski’s work. The mate­r­i­al comes from var­i­ous regions of Poland — Łow­icz, Kraków, Pod­lasie, Sier­adz, Kurpie, Mazury and Sile­sia. The com­pos­er, in his char­ac­ter­is­tic way, embeds tonal folk melodies in an aton­al con­text. Although Melodie ludowe were orig­i­nal­ly intend­ed for ped­a­gog­i­cal pur­pos­es, they have become a per­ma­nent part of the per­form­ing canon and have inspired numer­ous arrange­ments and adap­ta­tions. The com­pos­er him­self returned to them in his lat­er work, orches­trat­ing them for string orches­tra and four vio­lins. The author of the present arrange­ment for string quar­tet is vio­lin­ist Marcin Markowicz.

K. Pen­derec­ki — 3 utwory w dawnym stylu

This short suite presents a less­er-known face of Krzysztof Pen­derec­ki. Few peo­ple know that this com­pos­er, known for his great con­cert works, occa­sion­al­ly wrote film music. Although he nev­er want­ed to immerse him­self more deeply in this strand of cre­ative work (and sub­se­quent­ly declined offers to write film sound­tracks), these three minia­tures show that the artistry and rich­ness of his com­po­si­tion­al craft allowed him to cre­ate excel­lent tonal, illus­tra­tive and styl­ized music as well. The suite-open­ing Aria comes from the 1968 doc­u­men­tary film Pas­sacaglia na Kaplicę Zyg­muntowską direct­ed by Zbig­niew Boch­enek. The film tells the sto­ry of a jew­el of Pol­ish Renais­sance archi­tec­ture at Wawel Cas­tle, and the work trans­ports us through its style into the world of that era. The next 2 works are Min­uets from the film Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie by Woj­ciech Jerzy Has. This is a brief excerpt from the sound­track, which was the only one com­posed entire­ly by Pen­derec­ki. The score of the Trzy utwory w dawnym sty­lu wait­ed twen­ty-five years for pub­li­ca­tion, and the com­plete sound­track was released on vinyl only in 2005.

R. Panufnik — Olivia

At your door, my lady,I would build a wil­low-twig cottage,And enclose my soul in that dwelling,And write songs of scorned love,Then sad­ly hum them through the night,I would repeat your name with­out end,So that the moun­tains might echo it back,So that the very talk­a­tive air­Might mur­mur with me: “Olivia! Olivia!“Between two ele­ments, earth and air,I would not give you a momen­t’s peace,Until you felt pity for me.

W. Shake­speare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene V, transl. Leon Ulrich

The direct inspi­ra­tion for Rox­an­na Panufnik to write Olivia was a school pro­duc­tion of William Shake­speare’s Twelfth Night. Enchant­ed not so much by the lan­guage as by the rich­ness of emo­tion in the excerpt quot­ed above, she com­posed a 15-minute work for string quar­tet with the accom­pa­ni­ment of a small female choir. The use of var­ied artic­u­la­tion tech­niques in the quar­tet and human voic­es in this extra­or­di­nar­i­ly col­oris­tic com­po­si­tion makes it pos­si­ble for us to almost see the Shake­speare­an scene in which Vio­la, dis­guised as a man, con­veys the words of love from her mas­ter Orsi­no to Olivia, who in turn is aflame with feel­ing for Vio­la, unaware that she is a woman.

Tickets

40 PLN