Concert as part of the "The Mis-present Art" Festival Three Landscapes of Polish Émigré Music – Maciejewski, Tansman, and Wars
The Mis-Present Art Festival - established by the Cultural Events Office of the Institute of National Remembrance - was created to promote musical, literary and painting culture, which in the past, due to its elements of freedom, independence and simply Polishness, was excluded and censored by the partitioning, totalitarian and communist authorities of the People's Republic of Poland.
Until 1956, and often longer, a wide range of artists were forced for ideological reasons to create art in a restricted manner, often choosing to emigrate as an act of protest against the communist authorities.
This year's edition brings another new portion of music by Polish composers whose work, although long unbanned, is largely unknown and unperformed.
Polish music in exile was extremely diverse. This was primarily related to the various compositional currents that began to change the face of music worldwide after the Second World War. In addition, Polish composers dispersed in various countries of the free West were influenced by different concepts and musical environments. Taken together, all these aspects produced an extraordinary blend of unfettered Polish creativity, which, precisely because of this intellectual element of independence, was a hostile element for the communists in Poland's post-war history, especially until 1956.
It was no different with Tansman, Wars and Maciejewski, whose works will be heard during the concert. These are three diverse symphonic landscapes. Music shimmering with orchestration like the glare of Hollywood jupiters, yet with an unusually wide and fresh sound as if from the Scandinavian coastal horizon.
