Post by Bonobo on Mar 3, 2018 22:17:21 GMT 1
I have never been really interested in this folk dance group. I heard about it, first as a child, during music classes in elementary school but this type of entertainment wasn`t my genre. 
Mazowsze Folk Ensemble turns 70
05.02.2018 08:00
The Mazowsze Folk and Song group, Poland’s best-known folk ensemble internationally, gives a gala performance in Warsaw’s National Opera on Monday at the start of its 70th season.
Mazowsze has given over 6,500 performances in 52 countries. One of its most memorable foreign concerts was in Paris in October 1954, the first time the communist authorities allowed the group to perform behind the Iron Curtain.
In addition to songs and dances from all Polish regions, the repertoire of Mazowsze includes popular folk songs from around the world. On foreign tours, it has sung them in 36 languages, including in Chinese and Arabic.
The founder and first director of Mazowsze was the composer and conductor Tadeusz Sygietyński (1896-1955).
After his death, the post of artistic director was taken over by his widow, Mira Zimińska, a star of Warsaw’s pre-war cabarets. She served in the post for many years until her death in 1997, at the age of 96.
(mk/pk)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazowsze_(folk_group)
Mazowsze (in Polish "Państwowy Zespół Ludowy Pieśni i Tańca "Mazowsze"" – "State Folk Group of Song and Dance 'Mazowsze'") is a famous Polish folk group. It is named after the Mazowsze region of Poland.
Contents
1 History
2 Film appearances
3 See also
4 External links
History
Mazowsze was established by a decree issued by the Ministry of Culture and Art on 8 November 1948. The decree ordered Professor Tadeusz Sygietyński to create a folk group that would maintain regional artistic traditions and the traditional folk repertoire of songs and dances of the Masovian countryside. The group was intended to protect this folk tradition from destruction and encapsulate its diversity, beauty and richness. At the beginning Mazowsze's repertoire contained songs and dances from only a few regions of Poland – Opoczno and Kurpie, but it soon extended its range by adopting the traditions of other regions.
After two years of preparing, rehearsing and studying its repertoire, Mazowsze staged its premiere in the Polish Theatre in Warsaw on 6 November 1950. The repertoire contained songs and dances from the regions of Central Poland (as mentioned above) – Opoczno, Kurpie and Masovia.
In between the concerts after the premiere in Warsaw Mazowsze continued to enhance the programme, planned next undertakings and made important decisions. Only year after, in 1951, Mazowsze started touring outside Poland. The first country they visited was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, understandable in those days due to Poland's geopolitical situation. Three years later the Polish government allowed Mazowsze to venture outside the “Iron Curtain”. On 1 October 1954 there was a concert in Paris, and six years later in the USA.
After the death of Prof. Tadeusz Sygietyński, the group’s leader became Mira Zimińska-Sygietyńska, who was working beside her husband from the very beginning of Mazowsze. They both researched the countryside, Ziemińska looking for old traditional garments, Sygietynski hoping to find young talents. She also made Mazowsze as it is till now. Had it not been for her, it would not be possible to find new areas of research like 39 more ethnographic regions or description of religious and patriotic songs which were never written down. Because of her Mazowsze gained popularity all over the world, gave around 6 thousand concerts as well in Poland as in 49 countries. Mira tried to collect also material treasures of Polish folklore – costumes which were reconstructed with great care.
Mira Ziemińska-Sygietyńska was the group's leader for over 40 years, devoting her talent, experience and life to the project completely.
Film appearances
In 1963 Mazowsze appeared in the Polish comedy movie Żona dla Australijczyka (Wife for an Australian), about an Australian man of Polish descent who returns to Poland to find a wife. The role of the soloist of Mazowsze was played by the famous Polish actress Elżbieta Czyżewska, and the role of the Australian man – Wiesław Gołas.
Mazowsze Folk Ensemble turns 70
05.02.2018 08:00
The Mazowsze Folk and Song group, Poland’s best-known folk ensemble internationally, gives a gala performance in Warsaw’s National Opera on Monday at the start of its 70th season.
Mazowsze has given over 6,500 performances in 52 countries. One of its most memorable foreign concerts was in Paris in October 1954, the first time the communist authorities allowed the group to perform behind the Iron Curtain.
In addition to songs and dances from all Polish regions, the repertoire of Mazowsze includes popular folk songs from around the world. On foreign tours, it has sung them in 36 languages, including in Chinese and Arabic.
The founder and first director of Mazowsze was the composer and conductor Tadeusz Sygietyński (1896-1955).
After his death, the post of artistic director was taken over by his widow, Mira Zimińska, a star of Warsaw’s pre-war cabarets. She served in the post for many years until her death in 1997, at the age of 96.
(mk/pk)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazowsze_(folk_group)
Mazowsze (in Polish "Państwowy Zespół Ludowy Pieśni i Tańca "Mazowsze"" – "State Folk Group of Song and Dance 'Mazowsze'") is a famous Polish folk group. It is named after the Mazowsze region of Poland.
Contents
1 History
2 Film appearances
3 See also
4 External links
History
Mazowsze was established by a decree issued by the Ministry of Culture and Art on 8 November 1948. The decree ordered Professor Tadeusz Sygietyński to create a folk group that would maintain regional artistic traditions and the traditional folk repertoire of songs and dances of the Masovian countryside. The group was intended to protect this folk tradition from destruction and encapsulate its diversity, beauty and richness. At the beginning Mazowsze's repertoire contained songs and dances from only a few regions of Poland – Opoczno and Kurpie, but it soon extended its range by adopting the traditions of other regions.
After two years of preparing, rehearsing and studying its repertoire, Mazowsze staged its premiere in the Polish Theatre in Warsaw on 6 November 1950. The repertoire contained songs and dances from the regions of Central Poland (as mentioned above) – Opoczno, Kurpie and Masovia.
In between the concerts after the premiere in Warsaw Mazowsze continued to enhance the programme, planned next undertakings and made important decisions. Only year after, in 1951, Mazowsze started touring outside Poland. The first country they visited was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, understandable in those days due to Poland's geopolitical situation. Three years later the Polish government allowed Mazowsze to venture outside the “Iron Curtain”. On 1 October 1954 there was a concert in Paris, and six years later in the USA.
After the death of Prof. Tadeusz Sygietyński, the group’s leader became Mira Zimińska-Sygietyńska, who was working beside her husband from the very beginning of Mazowsze. They both researched the countryside, Ziemińska looking for old traditional garments, Sygietynski hoping to find young talents. She also made Mazowsze as it is till now. Had it not been for her, it would not be possible to find new areas of research like 39 more ethnographic regions or description of religious and patriotic songs which were never written down. Because of her Mazowsze gained popularity all over the world, gave around 6 thousand concerts as well in Poland as in 49 countries. Mira tried to collect also material treasures of Polish folklore – costumes which were reconstructed with great care.
Mira Ziemińska-Sygietyńska was the group's leader for over 40 years, devoting her talent, experience and life to the project completely.
Film appearances
In 1963 Mazowsze appeared in the Polish comedy movie Żona dla Australijczyka (Wife for an Australian), about an Australian man of Polish descent who returns to Poland to find a wife. The role of the soloist of Mazowsze was played by the famous Polish actress Elżbieta Czyżewska, and the role of the Australian man – Wiesław Gołas.