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CULTURE
zecin’s Michał Dobrzyński is among 13 youthful
talents taking part in the program, as is Marcin
Gumiela, and both were students of the late Prof.
Jasiński. The program also is supported by the
Polish Composers’ Union, the French Embassy,
villa Decius Association and Polish Audiovisual
Publishers.
Penderecki director Adrianna Poniecka-
Piekutowska sees cooperation as a lynchpin in
accomplishing the center’s objective of carrying
the artist and the work through the successive
phases of promotion. During the University Concerts
in Szczecin series, listeners were treated to
a sampling of works by Penderecki students, including
Oneiros by Dariusz Przybylski, Secretary
of the Polish Composers’ Union youth Circle; and
the Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra
by Sławomir Zamaszko, assistant professor at the
Chair of Composition of the G. and K. Bacewicz
Academy of Music in Łódź. Along with Wojciech
Kilar’s Orawa, which draws on themes of Polish
folklore, the country’s musical future appears secure
well into the 21 st century.
Christmas Concert
Szczecin University’s 25th anniversary
provided Prof. Jasiński with an
opportunity to display his ample talents in
a December 12 performance that drew on
inspirational music written over the last
three centuries, with Prof. Boguszewski
leading the Academia Chamber Orchestra.
Also performing were choirs from Szczecin
University and from Berlin’s Herz-Jesu-Kirche –
where the program was performed on December
19 – with featured as soloists Sarah Behrendt
(soprano), Sylwia Tazberik (mezzo-soprano), henriette
Nietzke (tenor), and Johannes G. Schmidt
(bass-baritone).
Jasiński beautiful, touching and subtle Christmas
carol Mizerna cicha [Poor and Quiet] was mated
with Tomaso Albinoni’s (1671-1750) Adagio in
G minor for organ and string chamber orchestra.
The program also featured the organ fantasy
Boże Narodzenie w prastarym kościele Mariackim
w Krakowie op. 34 no. 3 [Christmas in the Age-old
St. Mary’s Basilica in Cracow], performed by organ
virtuoso Andrzej Mielewczyk from Berlin, and Oratorio
de Noel op. 12 by the French eclectic composer
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921).
University officials present at the concert included
rectors Józef Perenc, Andrzej Witkowski
and Edward Włodarczyk, and the chancellor,
Eugeniusz Kisiel, who remarked on the quality
of the entertainment on offer and its appropriateness
for both the holiday and the long winter
ahead.
Concert in the Cathedral
Basilica of St. James the
Apostle in Szczecin, from
the left: Sarah Behrendt –
soprano, Sylvia Tazberik
– mezzo-soprano, Henriette
Godde – alto, Volker
Nietzke – tenor, Johannes
G. Schmidt (behind the
conductor) – bass-baritone,
prof. Bohdan Boguszewski
– conductor
Photo: Michał Kulik
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