"Chilling with Feldman"
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We invite you to a unique concert opening this year’s edition of POLIN on the Meadow. We encourage you to relax—on the grass, on a blanket, in a deckchair—to the sounds of music by Morton Feldman, an American composer of Jewish origin, whose works now feature at the world’s greatest music festivals.
- 24 June (Saturday), 5 PM-9.30 PM, free admission
- Venue: POLIN on the Meadow (green square next to POLIN Museum from the side of Lewartowskiego St)
This special music project is a brain-child of the members of the Kwadrofonik ensemble and the musicians who collaborate with it. The piece titled "For Philip Guston" will be performed by Ewa Liebchen (flutes), Magdalena Kordylasińska-Pękala (percussion) and Emilia Karolina Sitarz (keyboard instruments). "I don't push the sounds," Feldman used to say. We do hope that the meditative nature of the concert will please the audience and encourage them to drift away with the sounds of the composer's works.
We swap uncomfortable chairs for the Meadow area—the cushions, bean bags, deckchairs and blankets on the grass to be closer to nature! We encourage all the residents of Warsaw, especially our neighbours from Muranów, to book their time for this Saturday evening. You can join the concert at any time over the course of its 4.5-hour duration. You can read a book, meditate on the grass or simply fall asleep while listening to the music, in the pleasant surroundings of the green Meadow right next to the Museum. For the comfort of all our guests, please keep quiet during the concert.
Feldman’s music has already been performed during the KODY Festival of Traditional and Avant-Garde Music under a starry May sky in the cloisters of the Dominican Monastery in Lublin. One of Feldman’s pieces also accompanied the inauguration of Joanna Rajkowska’s SORRY sculpture in Warsaw, where the sounds of flute, piano and celesta resounded for three hours in the space of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities courtyard, where the installation was located.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) – American composer who hailed from a family of Jewish emigrants from Kyiv is one of the most important figures in contemporary music. Described as one of the ‘true minimalists’, usually confused with the repetivists, his works were characterised by free and unstructured rhythms; he experimented with musical notation, departing from links to systems or musical ideas of the past.
The musicians:
Emilia Karolina Sitarz – pianist, artistic director of the Kwadrofonik Festival and SŁUCHY series—Concerts you may visit, a pedagogue, laureate of the most prestigious Polish awards such as: Koryfeusz, Paszport Polityki, Fryderyk, Złota Płyta, Folkowy Fonogram Roku.
Ewa Liebchen – flutist, soloist and chamber music performer specialising in contemporary music. She has given numerous performances of Polish music. The premiere of her latest solo album, "Dizzy Divinity" (Bôłt Records), took place during this year’s Sacrum Profanum Festival.
Magdalena Kordylasińska-Pękala – percussionist specialising in performing chamber and solo music from the 20th and 21st cc. Laureate of ‘Paszport Polityki’ and other awards and scholarships. Magda collaborates with Miłosz Pękala (with whom she founded a percussion duo Pękala Kordylasińska Pękala), the new music ensemble Chain Ensemble, led by the outstanding cellist Andrzej Bauer, and with Hashtag Ensemble.
