The World of Grażyna Bacewicz
Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco
1: A Rising Star
Friday, October 18, 7:30pm
Special Event: Film Screening
Saturday, October 19, 3pm
2: From War to Warsaw Autumn
Saturday, October 19, 4pm
3: Evolution and Persistence – Her Legacy
Saturday, October 19, 8pm
Program 1: A Rising Star
Hear Bacewicz’s brilliant early works from her days as a young virtuoso violinist and rising star. Get to know her formative influences including her Polish predecessors; Paris; neoclassicism; early choral music; and her teacher, the great Nadia Boulanger.
Featured Artists:
Mélanie Clapiès, violin
Yu Eun Kim, violin
Jessica Chang, viola
Laura Gaynon, cello
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Jeffrey LaDeur, piano
Allegra Chapman, piano
EQV, vocal quintet
Program:
Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet No. 1
Claudio Monteverdi: Nine Madrigals (selections)
Claude Debussy: Études for piano
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas for piano
Nadia Boulanger: Vers la Vie Nouvelle for piano
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for clarinet
Ignac Paderewski: Nocturne for piano
Get to Know Bacewicz:
“I acquired an internal peace…I see myself, as well as others, going back and forth like ants on this, our otherwise interesting and lovely, globe – bustling about supposedly very important matters, while in reality it is always about one thing: #1 about bread, #2 about being first. I understand the first – the other I do not. No one shares my theory. In this case I am weird.”
October 23, 1957, Grażyna Bacewicz in a letter to her brother