Monday, February 3, 2020

Dominika Swiatek, "Groszki i Roze" Polish Songs, Saturday 29 Feb 2020, 4 pm Santa Monica




The Board of Directors of Helena Modjeska Art And Culture Club has the pleasure to invite members and guests to a FREE CONCERT at the Santa Monica Library (601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401) - Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium -  on SATURDAY,  29 February 2020 at 4:00 p.m. The performance will start at 4:30 and RSVP is requested to prezes@modjeska.org.

"GROSZKI I ROZE"
"SWEET PEAS AND ROSES"  
Concert by Dominika Świątek and Andrzej Perkman

The concert consists of two parts. The first are songs once sung by Ewa Demarczyk, i.e. great literary and musical masterpieces such as: "Carousel with Madonnas", "Poems of War", Skrzypek Hercowicz "," Tomaszów ", the monumental" Grande Valse Brillante "and the title" Peas and Roses " .

The second part will include songs by the brilliant Polish poet and bard - Jacek Kaczmarski. In addition to the well-known "Our Class" and "Sources", less popular songs such as "Sparks and Tears" and "Mucha in a Glass of Lemonade" will be performed. The whole concert is a tribute to great Polish poetry and Polish composers. This is a presentation of a very important part of Polish culture and the wonderful tradition of Polish poetic song.


Dominika Świątek - singer, composer, poetry interpreter, Polish philologist Music director of the Hybrydy Theater of the University of Warsaw, She published three CDs with her compositions to poems of Polish poets: "Prophecy" with poetry of Juliusz Słowacki, "Seventh Angel" with poetry of Zbigniew Herbert, and "Coraz ciszej" "To the poems of the contemporary poet Jerzy Hajduga. Decorated with the medal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Distinguished for Polish Culture".

 Andrzej Perkman - pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer at the Theater Academy in Warsaw, he cooperates with Warsaw theaters: incl. National, Contemporary, Dramatic, Rampa, Roma, Studio.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I92BKHB59ms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4_lqjXYSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpy6B-m5gqk
 

PHOTOS FROM CHOPIN PLAY AND THE MODJESKA PRIZE




L TO R: Seated Agata Pilitowska, Maria Nowotarska. Standing Chris Justin, Ela Trybus, Maja Trochimczyk, Beata Czajkowska, Anna Sadowska, Ela Przybyla, Ewa Barsam, Vice Consul Pawel Lickiewicz


 L TO R: Seated Agata Pilitowska, Maria Nowotarska. Standing Chris Justin, Ela Trybus, Maja Trochimczyk, Beata Czajkowska, Anna Sadowska, Ela Przybyla, Ewa Barsam, Vice Consul Pawel Lickiewicz

Ela Przybyla and Ewa Barsam in conversation with Agata Pilitowska

 L TO R: Seated Agata Pilitowska, Maria Nowotarska. Standing Chris Justin, Ela Trybus, Maja Trochimczyk, Beata Czajkowska, Anna Sadowska, Ela Przybyla, Ewa Barsam, Vice Consul Pawel Lickiewicz


Maja Trochimczyk, Maria Nowotarska, Agata Pilitowska

Ela Trybus and Maria Nowotarska, Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens

Ela Trybus, Maria Nowotarska, Agata Pilitowska, Marek Szczerba at the Huntington Library