LIFESTYLE
DECEMBER 9-15, 2013
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Exhibition
Classical music
Warsaw under construction
Christmas music from the past
Profession: Architect Ongoing until Jan 6, 2014 Historical Museum of Warsaw Rynek Starego Miasta 28-42
A glimpse of the architect’s world 1939, architects and urban planners seemed to be less in conflict with the state, which raises a question on their relationship today. Is it true that Poland’s post-1989 economic
freedom has led to a lack of spacial planning when constructing new buildings? Visitors will be able to answer that question for themselves while taking in a historic
overview of how the city has become what it is today. John Beauchamp
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The biggest names in early music will visit Gdaƒsk for the third time for the Actus Humanus festival. Early music, according to “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,” includes “any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence,” which usually means any music that was composed between 500-1760 (the end of the baroque era). The festival’s intention is to present musical pieces with a Christmas theme performed and interpreted by the biggest names of the genre. This year’s edition includes: Italian and German Christmas masterpieces interpreted by Maria Cristina Kiehr and Concerto Soave, medieval
Franco-Flemish songs performed by Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Renaissance and Baroque carols interpreted by Huelgas Ensemble. Organizers have planned seven concerts for seven straight days in some of the most appropriate venues for this genre of music – two 15th century churches and the 14th century Artus Court, a former home of the Brotherhood of St. George and a meeting place for nobles and a seat of courts. Jacek Ciesnowski
Ticket prices vary depending on the concert
COURTESY OF ACTUS HUMANUM FESTIVAL
COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW/BARTOSZ STAWIARSKI
Following the wartime destruction of Warsaw, the new regime in the country had a blank sheet with which to propose their new vision for the capital city. While Warsaw still remains a bastion of socialist-realist architecture in this part of Europe (despite strong competition from Nowa Huta, built on the outskirts of Kraków), Poland’s capital is now one of the most versatile in terms of eclectic architectural styles. The exhibition takes visitors into the everyday work of architects, and underlines their importance in making up the fabric of the city. After all, before any building is constructed, it has to be designed in the silence of an architectural studio, clients have to be met and decisions have to be taken. “This is what interests us,” the exhibition’s curators say. The exhibition, however, goes further back than World War II, and looks at the relationship between architects and state authorities. Before
Actus Humanus Festival December 9-15 Gdaƒsk, various locations
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