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Lech Wieleba “Poetic Jazz Symphonic” (Switzerland / Germany) & Polska Filharmonia Sinfonia Baltica (Słupsk)

concert

09. 11. 2016 – Wednesday
7pm
Musical Theatre, ul. Północna 47/51

phot. Sławomir Żabiński

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Poetic Jazz

Poetic Jazz Symphonic:
Lech Wieleba — double bass
Claas Ueberschär — flugelhorn
Enno Dugnus — grand piano
Paweł Wieleba — percussion / percussion instruments

The concert shall be conducted by two conductors of Sinfonia Baltica, Bohdan Jarmołowicz and Jerry Gates from the Boston Berklee College of Music.

Poetic Jazz Symphonic — for the first time, compositions by Lech Wieleba have been orchestrated and arranged for both jazz quartet and symphonic orchestra together. An exceptional aspect of this concert is that there will be two conductors — Bohdan Jarmołowicz  and Jerry Gates. Each will direct the pieces that they themselves have orchestrated and arranged.

All of the festival pieces of the new recording Poetic Jazz Symphonic (CD/DVD) will be presented as well as new pieces for Poetic Jazz. 

Poetic Jazz is not a new attempt of bringing together on scene poetry and jazz — it is the name of the band and the music concept of Lech Wieleba, Polish bassist and composer. Under his direction a rare and moving form of lyrical music has been born that unifies elements of classical music and jazz with Wieleba’s Slavic sense of melody. The critics write of “new style”, “language over borders” or “elegant symbiosis of classic and improvisation”. Everyone emphasizes the consequence with which Lech Wieleba, the author and originator of all compositions performed by the band, follows the path he had set in combining the charming melodies with sophisticated jazzy pulse. Poetic Jazz is his way of expressing feelings in the creative language of music. In these works, everyday encounters are transformed into musical short stories.

“Poetic Jazz is jazz pure. It is emotional, gripping, and — if you listen deeply inside yourself — even erotic.”

“Poetic Jazz is imbued with magical lightness, formed from the primordial power of jazz, the autumnal-pastel melodies of the Slavic tradition, and the high art of classical composers. It is entertainment with sophistication and joy for all those, whether jazz enthusiasts or friends of classical music, who love good music.”

Poetic Jazz was established 15 years ago by Lech Wieleba, born in Słupsk and living in Germany and Switzerland for 30 years, studied double bass in Gdańsk with Prof. Stanisław Rosiek. After 5 years of professional experience as a member of the orchestra of Państwowa Opera i Filharmonia Bałticka w Gdańsku Wieleba passionately devoted himself to jazz music, 1980 prize winner “Nagroda Indywidualna im. Krzysztofa Komedy”, co-founder with Leszek Kułakowski of the successful jazz band Antiquintet. Before Wieleba decided to realize his own sound visions, he played in many European formations, not only jazz ones, and also wrote music for theatre and tv productions (“Chawale”, Theater am Hechtplatz Zurich; “La Musica”, Marguerite Duras, Theatron Hamburg; “Sie sprechen von mir nur leise”, Mascha Kaléko; “Die Aussenseiter”, tv ProSieben). Studied Music Composition for film and tv with Ben Newhouse, Berklee School of Music.

The partners in his band Poetic Jazz are: Claas Ueberschär playing flugelhorn and trumpet, graduate of Academy of Music & Theater in Hannover, and of The New School and Mannes College in New York. Lives and works as a freelance musician in Hamburg. Enno Dugnus, pianist with Slavic roots (his father is a Lithuanian), studied piano and trumpet at Academy of Music in Kassel, private studies with Prof. Paul Grabowsky and Walter Norris, worked with Ken Peplowski, James Moody, Spike Robinson and Rachel Gould. Lives and works in Hamburg. Paweł Wieleba, drums and percussion player, graduate Musicology at University of Hamburg, private studies with Danny Gottlieb (Pat Matheny) who lectures at University of North Florida.

Previously, there were such pianists as: André Mornet from Avignon (2002-2004), with whom Wieleba had played for several years touring with artists like the Clark Brothers from the legendary Cotton Club in New York; and Adzik Sendecki (2004-2009). 

Poetic Jazz released a triptych:
OPEN THE HEART — red
DANZARINA — blue
MAZUR — green
and the new CD/DVD Poetic Jazz Symphonic

 

Jerry Gates

composer, arranger, conductor and professor at Berklee College of Music, Boston

Jerry Gates has been a music industry professional for over thirty-five years.

As a professor at Berklee College of Music, he teaches Contemporary Arranging Techniques, Directed Studies in Arranging, Contemporary Twelve-Tone Composition, Orchestration, Writing and Production in the Studio, and Music Preparation courses.

As an author, Jerry has written books entitled “All Twelve-Dodecaphonic Sources For Contemporary Composition” (2001) and “Arranging for Horns” (2014).

He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, a Master of Music/Composition degree from the Hartt School, and graduated from both the Television/Film Scoring and Composing/Arranging certificate programs at the former Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, CA. 

Jerry Gates is guest conductor of Poetic Jazz Symphonic. He shall conduct his arrangements of Lech Wieleba’s compositions “Mazur”, “Faenza”, “Waiting for the Call”, and “Elven Dance”. Jerry also conducted these pieces on the new CD/DVD recording, “Poetic Jazz Symphonic”.