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Program of the 2007 Sacrum-Profanum Festival of Classical Music in Krakow.
September 16 - September 23

Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the following program is liable to alterations. 

September 16, Sunday

Hour

Event Venue
7:00 p.m.
Poland’s Aukso chamber orchestra with France’s accomplished conductor Marc Minkowski and Poland’s top jazz pianist Leszek Mozdzer render George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Catfish Row, Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess, and Variations on I Got Rhythm.   Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street. 

September 17, Monday

Hour

Event Venue
7:00 p.m.
Poland's veteran jazzman, trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, plays Miles Davis' music together with saxophonist Joakim Milder, pianist Alexi Tuomarila, drummer Stefan Pasborg, and bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz.  Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street. 
10:00 p.m. Poland’s top string quartet, Kwartet Slaski, renders Philip Glass’ string quartets nos 1, 2 (Company), 3 (Mishima), 4 (Buczak), and 5.  Fabryka Schindlera ('Schindler's Factory') at 4 Lipowa street. 
 

September 18, Tuesday

Hour

Event Venue
6:00 p.m.
Poland’s pianist Maciej Grzybowski and London's Royal String Quartet render Charle Ives' string quartets no. 1 op. 57 'From the Salvation Army' and no. 2 op. 58, piano sonatas no. 1 op. 87 and no. 2 op. 88 'Concord', plus Three-Page Sonata op. 89 and Hallowe'en op 71. Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street. 
10:00 p.m.
UK’s accomplished chamber orchestra, London Sinfonietta, performs Steve Reich’s Come Out, Violin Phase, New York Counterpoint, and Sextet.  Fabryka Schindlera ('Schindler's Factory') at 4 Lipowa street. 
 

September 19, Wednesday

Hour

Event Venue
7:00 p.m.
Poland’s Sinfonia Varsovia chamber orchestra with France’s accomplished conductor Marc Minkowski plus baritone Garry Magee perform John Adams’ Shaker Loops, The Wound-Dresser, and Fearful Symmetries. Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street. 
10:00 p.m.
Schoenberg Ensemble performs Steve Reich's Drumming Fabryka Schindlera ('Schindler's Factory') at 4 Lipowa street. 
 

September 20, Thursday

Hour

Event Venue
7:00 p.m.
Asko Ensemble renders Elliott Carter's Asko Concerto, Dialoques, and Double Concerto. Filharmonia concert hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street. 
10 p.m.
UK’s Theatre of Voices ensemble, a 2006 Grammy Award winner, performs its recital of John Cage’s music, The Music of Always Fabryka Schindlera ('Schindler's Factory') at 4 Lipowa street. 
 

September 21, Friday

Hour

Event Venue
9:00 p.m. An array of Poland’s pop acts perform songs from Leonard Bernstein’s musicals - ‘West Side Story’, 'On the Town', 'Wonderful Town', and 'Candide' Building of the former Huta Sendzimira steelworks' rolling mill, now Mittal Steel Poland, at 1 Ujastek street. 
 

September 22, Saturday

Hour

Event Venue
9:00 p.m. An array of Poland’s pop acts perform songs from Leonard Bernstein’s musicals - ‘West Side Story’, 'On the Town', 'Wonderful Town', and 'Candide'. Building of the former Huta Sendzimira steelworks' rolling mill, now Mittal Steel Poland, at 1 Ujastek street. 
 

September 23, Sunday

Hour

Event Venue
9:00 p.m. An array of Poland’s pop acts perform songs from Leonard Bernstein’s musicals - ‘West Side Story’, 'On the Town', 'Wonderful Town', and 'Candide'. Building of the former Huta Sendzimira steelworks' rolling mill, now Mittal Steel Poland, at 1 Ujastek street. 
 
Tickets

Culture Information Centers at 2 Sw. Jana Street
and in the
Town Hall 
Tower
on the Rynek Glowny central square. 
or 
Box office in the Fliharmonia hall at 1 Zwierzyniecka street.


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