Before the global success of the grand St Luke Passion, the composer of the famous Threnody, Emanations, and Fluorescences wrote dozens of scores for puppet and dramatic theatre, children’s animations, as well as art documentaries and feature films. Today, cinema draws almost exclusively from the music of Krzysztof Penderecki for scenes of horror, terror, and apocalypse. But what has happened along the way?
WięcejKarol Wojtyła, a great Pole, Pope of breakthrough, thinker, personality in the worlds of culture and art, poet, actor, and a man of peace and dialogue, was born a hundred years ago, on 18 May 1920. The history of his life resembles a multi-layered tale of an artist, philosopher, and a man concerned with the fates of humankind and the shape of the contemporary world. The space of nature and culture that produced Krzysztof Penderecki’s ideas and musical concepts is also characterised by that Renaissance versatility of interests, from roots in the culture of antiquity, via philosophical reflection and knowledge of literature, painting, and architecture, to the art of creating gardens.
WięcejThe Centre is a meeting place for young adepts of music with masters of the performing arts and composers, and also with eminent figures from a broad range of humanities.The heart of the site is a concert hall for an audience of 650.
