The project is co-financed from the budget of the Lower Silesia Regional Government
If you would like to hear beautiful songs performed by talented children, students, the University of Wrocław graduates, lecturers, and our outstanding seniors, then we kindly invite you to our concert!
4th edition of Melodies of three generations concert, which is going to take place in Oratorium Marianum on 6th of October, at 16:00, is going to refer to 20th Competition of a Slavic Song in May. Laureates of the concert and graduates of the Institute of Slavic Studies will set tone for this concert, not necessarily in languages lectured in the Institute. We are going to hear favourite songs in English, Czech, Macedonian, German, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
The youngest participants will start the concert – 12-year-old Filip Płażalski will sing Andrea Bocelli’s Time to Say Goodbye, and 11-year-old Julia Polańska in a duet with her mother, long-term juror and sponsor of the Slavic Song Contest, vocalist Anna Majkut-Polańska.
Adrianna Kwiatkowska, awarded with the 1st prize of the Dean of the Letters Faculty during the 20th edition of the Slavic Song Contest, Sofiia Poplavska, awarded with the prize of the Office of the Institute of Slavic Studies, and Małgorzata Pelak, awarded with the prize of the International Office, will perform their favourite songs, such as: Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano, Adele’s My Same, and Justyna Szafran’s Tango Tendresse.
Students of German Studies will perform on the stage of the Music Hall with the supervisor of their academic circle, dr Julianna Redlich, who will herself perform solo her original interpretation of a song of Herbert Grönemeyer, a famous German actor and singer – Der Weg – in Polish.
We are also going to hear not only the Institute of Slavic Studies graduates – laureates of the Slavic Song Contest in the past – Kamila Konopczak will sing Anna German’s Eurydyki tańczące, Kołchoz Boys music band, this time all members present, will sing Tercja Pikardyjska’s Bohdan, a song so warmly received by the audience during the May contest, and Lyubov Moc will perform Czeremszyna, which is know even to the Polish audience. Lecturers from Poland and Czechia, Igor Jelinek and Jakub Walczak, will also be present. They will sing Edmund Fetting’s Чайф – 17 лет in Russian, and Kometa in Czech.
The performance of Ilija Psaltirov, the Ambassador in the Embassy of North Macedonia, was awarded with a great applause of the audience during the May concert. The organisers invited the Ambassador to take part in this autumn’s concert. He will perform songs in Macedonian – Bidi mi i ostatni and Sonce za tri svetovi.
The participation of the favourite linguist in Poland, the former Director of the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, prof. Jan Miodek, is going to be a great surprise for the audience. Professor will sing his favourite song for our audience, accompanied by the Senior Rector prof. Adam Jezierski. The Rector will once again perform in a triple role – as an announcer, as an accompanist, and as a performer. This year, our regular accompanists of our concerts, a multi-instrumentalist Stanisław Marinczenko and the Senior Rector Adam Jezierski, were joined by a talented assistant professor of the Institute of German Studies, dr Julianna Redlich. The concert will be run by Agata Bromboszcz, a student of the 3rd year of Russian Studies, and by Łukasz Gawlik, a graduate of Russian and Ukrainian Studies.
Translated by Emilian Olsiewicz (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
