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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Dreams of the East and Polish Springs / NOSPR / Kuan - NOSPR

Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Dreams of the East and Polish Springs / NOSPR / Kuan

photo of Sasha Cooke in the meadow
Grzesiek Mart
Performers
Carolyn Kuan – conductor
Sasha Cooke – mezzo-soprano
Program
Ferde Grofé
Cloudburst from Grand Canyon Suite
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade
Zygmunt Noskowski
Symphony in F major, From Spring to Spring

Ferde Grofé, the American composer known for his orchestration of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, spent much time in the Grand Canyon, observing changes of the seasons and the weather. His impressions proved inspirational for the composition of the 1929-1931 five-movement Grand Canyon Suite. Thanks to the suggestive musical imaging, the composition quickly gained popularity in the United States and appeared in a 1958 Walt Disney animation. Its last movement, Cloudburst, which will open the final concert of the Katowice Culture Nature Festival, shows a picturesque idyll interrupted by the eponymous violent phenomenon.

In 1904, Maurice Ravel, inspired by Arabian Nights and Rimski-Korsakov’s  Scheherazade, completed a cycle of three songs for soprano and orchestra, setting to music poems by Tristan Klingsor. In order to present the oriental dreams of a European fascinated with the magic of the East, the composer attempted to translate the scents, colours, characters and sounds of the Orient into music. Thus, he created an impressionistic vision of an idealised realm of subtle beauty and sensual love.

A year prior to Ravel’s Scheherazade, Zygmunt Noskowski composes the Symphony No. 3, his last one, intended to “express the moods of the seasons with sounds”. He places each season within the Polish sonic landscape through the use of characteristic dance rhythms and four Polish folk songs. The work is a sonic nod to the tradition of German pastoral symphonies in the Beethovenian spirit, thanks to brilliantly outlined themes, the “pastoral” key of F minor and the illustrative titles of its movements.

Wojciech Stępień

Festival Passes are available for purchase. A Pass for a minimum of four concerts offers a 20% discount on the total ticket price. When purchasing a Pass for at least six concerts, the discount increases to 25%. Passes are available exclusively at the NOSPR ticket offices and by telephone reservation.

Regular and discounted tickets are available for all festival concerts. Holders of the Katowice Resident Card are entitled to a 20% discount, also valid for online purchases.

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