Songs of the stars, the desert and the wind

Anna Stolarczyk: “Songs of the stars, the desert and the wind” – concert at the Cellar under the Rams

A series of 11 works inspired by the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi poet and mystic, who was originally from Afghanistan and eventually settled in what was then Turkey in the province of Konya. Rumi’s work fantastically interweaves folklore, humor and, above all, ecstatic poetry, extolling mystical experience, visions and the astonishingly sensual freedom experienced by man who is at one with the source of creation, God, the Absolute, of whom Rumi says: “We do not know You as we should. We don’t understand anything. Why should I seek? I am the same as You. Your essence speaks through me. All this time I have been searching for myself!” A similar association is evoked by the cry of St. Francis of Assisi’s contemporary Rumi: “Love is not loved!”

The titles of the individual pieces, which take the form of solo and collective Songs, accompanied by piano and oboe:

1. Evening Star

2. travel time

3. the Spirit of the Wind

4. thy Song calls me….

5. you are everywhere

6. words and Shadow

7. vigil until dawn

8. night sky

9. Gift from the Stars

10. Ruby and the Sun

11. inner Wisdom

Performers:

Joanna Berska – soprano

Karolina Borodziuk – mezzo-soprano

Joanna Dzięgiel – contralto

Eryk Jasoń – bass

Miłosz Korendo – bass

Faustyna Martyna – soprano

Ewa Matyaszek – soprano

Anna Stolarczyk – soprano, composition

Barbara Kaminska – oboe

Mateusz Krystian – piano

Tickets: PLN 10 (dress rehearsal), PLN 30 (concert), available for purchase at tickets.krakowskieforum.pl, at the NCF box office, 2 Mikołajska Street, or before the events.

April 21, 2023, Friday, 6:30 pm – open dress rehearsal
Krakow Cultural Forum, 2 Mikołajska St.

April 25, 2023, Tuesday, 6:30 pm – concert
Piwnica pod Baranami, Market Square 27

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