In New York

The Bard Music Festival and
the Polish Cultural Institute in New York
present:

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI

OPERA DOUBLE BILL:

HARNASIE & KING ROGER

HARNASIE
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Scenario by Karol Szymanowski and Jerzy Rytard

KING ROGER (THE SHEPHERD) (KROL ROGER)
Music by Karol Szymanowski
Libretto by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz

Adam Kruszewski (King Roger)
Iwona Hossa (Roxane)
Tadeusz Szlenkier (Shepherd)
Wojciech Maciejowski (Edrisi)
Ewa Marciniec (Deaconess)
Wojciech Bujalski (Archereios)

Wroclaw Opera Chorus
Summerscape Festival Children's Chorus

American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, conductor

Directed and designed by Lech Majewski

Choreographed by Noemie Lafrance

Sung in Polish with English supertitles

JULY 25, 31, AUGUST 2*, 2008, 8:00 PM
JULY 27**, AUGUST 3, 2008, 3:00 PM

The Bard Music Festival “Prokofiev and His World”
Sosnoff Theater
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
Tickets: $25, $55, $75, Thursday Performance: $20, $45, $65.
Tickets are on sale now. Click here to order tickets online or call 845.758.7900
*Round-trip transportation by coach for the August 2 performance from Columbus Circle to the Fisher Center will be available. Reservations are required. Tel. 845.758.7900.

** JULY 27, 1:00 PM
Opera Talk with Leon Botstein
Sosnoff Theater, Free and open to the public

Produced by The Bard Music Festival. Special support for this program is provided by Emily H. Fisher and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.

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AUGUST 1, 3, 7, 9, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus theaters
11 West 53th Street, New York, NY 10019
Admission: $10, $8 seniors, $6 students. Tickets can be purchased in MoMA lobby or at the Film and Media Desk.
More information: www.moma.org, 212.708.9400

The Museum of Modern Art’s Jazz Score (April 16 – September 15), includes a broad representation of Polish films, many featuring the music of Krzysztof Komeda, among other films with music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Toru Takemitsu, and Wynton Marsalis; two live performances – one of them of Komeda’s music by Tomasz Stanko – and an international gallery exhibition that features Polish posters for films with jazz scores, among many other artifacts

After a celebration of music by Krzysztof Komeda through films and a concert tribute by Tomasz Stanko in May, Polanski’s Repulsion with music by Chico Hamilton and the first experimental film by Zbigniew Rybczynski, Plamuz with music by Zbigniew Namyslowski, will be screened among the more than 100 films presented in MoMA’s Jazz Score – which offers such classics as Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows with music by Miles Davis and Antonioni’s Blow-Up with music by Herbie Hancock.

"The introduction of contemporary jazz to film scoring in the mid-twentieth century brought fresh forms of sophistication and innovation to world cinema. Until the 1950s, jazz had primarily been used in film as atmospheric or incidental music or during show-stopping musical numbers. In the postwar period, however, jazz was fully integrated into the onscreen drama for the first time, becoming an essential aspect of many films’ very structure and aesthetic. Jazz Score celebrates the groundbreaking collaborations between filmmakers, composers, and musicians who, by experimenting with new forms and techniques, have radically transformed both art forms – jazz and the cinema – from the 1950s to the present day". (Josh Siegel, curator of Jazz Score)

The Museum of Modern Art and
the Polish Cultural Institute
present:

A SELECTION OF POLISH JAZZ FILM POSTERS

AS PART OF JAZZ SCORE – MoMA's CELEBRATION OF THE BEST ORIGINAL JAZZ SCORES FOR FILM
FROM THE 1950s TO THE PRESENT

Byl Jazz

Lech Majewski, a poster for Feliks Falk's And All That Jazz (1981)

APRIL 16 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 and 2 lobbies
11 West 53th Street, New York, NY 10019
Wed.-Mon.: 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Fri.: 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM. Closed on Tuesday.
Admission: free with film tickets; MoMA's admission: $20, $16 seniors, $12 students (includes MoMA galleries and films),
Free on Fridays, 4:00-8:00 PM. More information: www.moma.org, 212.708.9400

The Museum of Modern Art’s Jazz Score includes a broad representation of Polish films, many featuring the music of KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA, among other FILMS with music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Toru Takemitsu, and Wynton Marsalis; two live performances – one of them being A CONCERT Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet with special guest Billy Harper – and an international gallery exhibition that features POLISH POSTERS for films with jazz scores, among many other artifacts.

The gallery exhibition of Jazz Score celebrates the sophistication and innovation that postwar jazz has brought to the art of live-action and animated films. Jazz continues to have a dramatic impact on the visual design of film trailers and the graphics of film promotion.

Among international works, a wide selection of Polish posters is presented: for Knife In the Water byJan Lenica, for There Was Jazz by Lech Majewski, for Blow-Up by Waldemar Swierzy, Innocent Sorcerers byWojciech Fangor, Dilemma byMaciej Hibner, Black Orpheus byAnna Huskowska, Taxi Driver byAndrzej Klimowski, Elevator to the Gallows by Roman Cieslewicz, and Barrier by Leszek Holdanowicz.

Among the more than 100 films one can see masterpieces by Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski and Miroslaw Kijowicz with music by Krzysztof Komeda. A Polanski film with music by Chico Hamilton and a film by Zbigniew Rybczynski with music by Zbigniew Namyslowski will also be screened.

The FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD, established on October 15, 2007, is to be given annually to the translator or translators of the best translation of a work of Polish literature into English that was published as a book in the preceding calendar year.

Candidates for the Award can be nominated by private persons as well institutions in Poland and abroad. The deadline for sending nominations is January 31 of each year, by midnight.