The band will play three concerts (September 19th to 21st) for 10 thousand fans, in the galvanising room of the former T. Sendzimir Steelworks (ArcelorMittal Poland).
For the third time, the Krakow Festival Office, in cooperation with the National Museum in Krakow, presents an exhibition dedicated to Stanisław Wyspiański at the Wyspiański 2000 Pavilion.
The scope of the festival is focused on presenting the masterpieces of instrumental and vocal-instrumental 20th century music that refers to the fundamental role of the intertwined motifs of sacrum and profanum, the geographical location is also important. The subsequent editions of the festival have focused around these axes and featured music from: Vienna, France, Russia and the USA. A trend to feature contemporary music emerged during the previous 2007 edition of the festival, devoted to American music. Works of George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Steve Reich, Eliott Carter, John Adams, Philip Glass, Jon Cage, Miles Davis, and Leonard Bernstein were featured in the outstanding festival performances.
The fourth exhibition in a series dedicated to selected aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s life and work, on display in the Wyspiański 2000 Pavilion, revolves around portraits painted by the artist.
The building used by the Krakow Philharmonic from its beginning, i.e. since February 1945, was completed in 1931 as Catholic House according to the design by Jozef Pokutynski. The main initiator of the building was Prince Adam Cardinal Sapieha. The initiators of the building were guided by a famous building of a similar use - Maison du Peuple in Brussels designed in 1897 by Viktor Hort.
