Zygmunt Konieczny

On 27 October 2015 at 8 pm, the Warsaw Rising Museum will host an extraordinary, intergenerational concert of the music of Zygmunt Konieczny, “Jeśli miłość jest prawdą, to ciała nie widać” (If Love Is the Truth, the Body Cannot Be Seen) (Fr Jan Twardowski). It is a distinctive musical portrait of the Composer. The music of Zygmunt Konieczny will be translated into the sounds of violas da gamba, large harps, Celtic harps, the duduk, pianos, and the voices of choirs and soloists. The programme includes instrumental works written by Zygmunt Konieczny between 2011 and 2014 – contemporary pieces scored for early instruments, violas da gamba. The composer wants to show an audience that lives daily in a rush, in a world full of noise, the qualities of the warm, quiet and subtle sound of an early instrument, the viola da gamba. In the concert we will also hear selected pieces of film music (“Jancio Wodnik”, “Pornografia”, “Jasminum”, “Prymas Tysiąclecia”) and theatre music (“Wyspiański”, “Kontrapunkt”, “Sztukmistrz z Lublina”, “Brat Naszego Boga”, “Szopka Krakowska”) by Zygmunt Konieczny, arranged for the sounds of harps, gambas, duduk, pianos and voices, composed between 1959 and 2014. There will also be new arrangements of famous songs performed in the 1960s and made famous by Ewa Demarczyk and Anna Szałapak of Kraków’s Piwnica pod Baranami – songs to poems by Polish poets: Stanisław Wyspiański, Julian Tuwim, Czesław Miłosz, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Fr Jan Twardowski, Agnieszka Osiecka, Miron Białoszewski, Bolesław Leśmian, Andrzej Dobrzański, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer and Tadeusz Śliwiak.

Zygmunt Konieczny will take part in the concert as the composer of the project and a performer. Free tickets can be collected at the Warsaw Rising Museum box office from 16 October 2015 during box office hours. The number of places is limited. Detailed information about the project is available on the website www.fundacjaens.org.pl.

The organisers are the ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage and Piwnica Poetycka, with the support of the National Centre for Culture.

Co-funded by the National Centre for Culture under the Kultura-Interwencje 2015 programme.

Details on the website www.fundacjaens.org.pl