The next event of the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club is a concert "100 Years of Poland in Music" by Katarzyna Sadej (mezzosoprano) and Basia Bochenek (piano) with special guest appearance by film composer & pianist Miro Kępiński. The event will be held at Beverly Hills, CA, on Saturday, October 20, 2018, 6 p.m. Attendance is limited to Club Members and VIP guests of the Polish Film Festival.
Program
Zakazane piosenki – Inspiracje /
Forbidden Songs – Inspirations Based on
songs from the 1946 musical about occupied Poland, e.g. Zielone Jabłuszko, Hymn Szarych Szeregów, Kto handluje ten żyje.
Miro Kępiński,
pianist and film composer
100 Years of Poland in Music– Remarks by Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D.
President of Helena Modjeska Art
and Culture Club
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Hej, Orle Biały / Hey White
Eagle
(1917) text and music by Ignacy
Jan Paderewski (1860-1941).
Written for the “Blue Army” of Gen. Haller
formed in the U.S. and Canada to help liberate Poland during WWI
Dziś do Ciebie przyjść nie mogę
/ I Cannot Come to You Tonight
(1943) text and music by Stanisław Magierski,
written for the Home Army in German-occupied Poland during WWII.
Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino
/ Red Poppies on Monte Cassino
(1944) by Feliks Konarski (text) and Alfred Schütz
(music).Written for the Polish II Corps of Gen. W. Anders.
Five Songs by Derwid
Z
lat dziecinnych / From Childhood Years
Zakochać
się w wietrze/To Fall in Love with the Wind
Tylko
to słowo / Only this Word
Filipince
nudno / The Filipino Girl is Bored
Cyrk
jedzie / The Circus is Coming
(1950s-1960s)
by Derwid (Witold Lutosławski, 1913-1994) Popular songs from PRL-period
written to texts by Jerzy Miller, Tadeusz Urgacz, and others.
To ostatnia niedziela / That
Last Sunday
(1935) by Zenon Friedwald (text) and Jerzy
Petersburski (music). Petersburski (1895-1979) who fought with Polish II Corps,
lived in Argentina, Venezuela and returned to Poland.
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Meet and Greet
with VIP Guests of Polish Film Festival
Alicja Bachleda (actress –Pitbull, Tough Women)
Zbigniew Czapla (director – animation, Strange Case)
Stanisław Cywka (actor – Strawberry Days)
Aleksandra Cywka (actress – Strawberry Days)
Andrew Kawczynski (composer, juror – Blood Brothers)
Miro Kępiński (composer – In This Gray Place)
Tomasz Opałka (composer – Footsteps in the Snow)
Marta Prus (director – documentary Over the Limit)
Agnieszka & Bartosz Putkiewicz (Sound/Music Squadron 303)
Danuta Rotschild (painter - artwork for the festival’s poster)
Danuta Rotschild (painter - artwork for the festival’s poster)
Jakub Radej (director –Sweet Home Czyżewo)
Bożena Stachura (actress –A Cat with a Dog)
Mietek Szczesniak (singer, songwriter)
Tomasz Ziętek (actor – Silent Night)
About The Performers
Miro Kępiński is an
award-winning film composer, producer and performer. His music mixes minimalism
with a ‘rawness’ of the north and a Slavic melancholy blended with classic
themes. Miro’s recent credits include: a multiple-award winning feature
documentary, The Wounds We Cannot See;
a dark-comedy, Suicide For Beginners
(with Sig Haig and Corey Feldman); In
This Gray Place, his feature debut (with Phil LaMarr) and Lord Finn.
Photo by Andre Surma
Katarzyna Sadej, a Polish-Canadian-American Mezzo-soprano was
born in Wrocław, Poland, and is based in Los Angeles, California. Her
international, eclectic career spans concert, opera, chamber music, oratorio,
recital and voice-over performance. She has performed numerous world premieres
and has had over a dozen new works composed especially for her. Recent opera
performances: L.A. Opera debut as the Page of Herodias in Strauss’ Salome, SOPAC Ottawa debut as Le Prince
Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon,
and the title role of Bizet’s Carmen
in the Palm Springs Opera Guild annual gala. Upcoming highlights include her
debut with the Chicago Philharmonic as the alto soloist in Wojciech Kilar’s Missa Pro Pace, her Chinese debut at
Opera Chengdu as Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’Elisir
D’Amore, and her debut with conductor Alexander Shelley as Cherubino in
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the
NAC Ottawa. Her debut at Walt Disney Hall was with the Pacific American Chorale
(alto solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony). Other notable debuts: Industry Opera,
Carnegie Hall, Festival Mozaic, the National Theater in Taipei, the Nuits
Blanches Festival of Toronto, San Diego Opera, the Ravinia Festival as a Steans
Fellow, the 2012 London Olympics, the Ojai International Music Festival, the
Montenegrin National Theater, the Lviv (Ukraine) and Banatul (Romania)
Philharmonics, the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Bard Summerscape Music Festival,
the Cartagena International Music Festival, Harvard University, and more
notable venues. www.katarzynasadej.com
Bochenek and Sadej recording Lutoslawski (Derwid)
Basia Bochenek, a Polish-American pianist, is an avid performer of classical
music, whose passion and dedication for collaborative arts brought her to
venues throughout the U.S. and Europe,working with world-renowned composers,
incredible musicians and great conductors. Basia has made Los Angeles her home.
Her performances include world premieres and new interpretations of art songs
as well as chamber music. Basia has worked with Robert Jason Brown, Richard
Faith, Anne LeBaron, Lori Laitman, Libby Larsen and Sofia Gubaidulina, among
others. In the exploration of performing lesser known music by Polish composers
as well as art songs, Basia works with Katarzyna Sadej. Their dedication to
exploring new approach to art songs began at Songfest. Basia has worked at the California Institute
of the Arts, coaching young artists, accompanying opera productions, recitals, classical
works and musical theatre. Other engagements include accompanying the studios
of acclaimed artists, such as LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour,
Vermeer Quartet violist Richard Young, baritones Rod Gilfry and Sherrill
Milnes. Her collaborations include performances with mezzo-sopranos Suzanna
Guzman, soprano Ashley Maria Bahri, violinists Roberto Cani, Mark Menzies,
Lorenz Gamma and Cheryl Norman-Brick. www.basiabochenek.com
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