Thursday 4 July 2013

Why didn't you come?

The classes led by Andrzej Głowacki left the most incredible and positive impression. Four hours of classes went by very quickly. I'm lost for words to describe how fantastic everything was. While talking to us, Andrzej used a beautiful language, forming the words in interesting sentences.
I really liked the fact that Andrzej didn't start the classes following a traditional, theoretical  pattern: interpretation - is .........
He prepared a fragment of poem for each group in their native languages. The task which he gave us demanded reading the poem and then singing out a part of it. In the next exercise, we had to impersonate the protagonist of the poem who wanted to find her father. During the summary of the classes, we realised that by those exercises Andrzej prepared us to understand the term interpretation and asked us four questions, which are indispensable while performing any of artistic or musical song.
The most interesting part of the workshop included an unconventional performance of the song "Ciom ty nie pryjszow?'' (Why didn't you come?). On the basis of this song, Andrzej presented many ways in which one may sing the same song.
This story presents the results of our efforts...

To sum up, I would like to bring back the memory of one significant moment of that day. Talking about interpretation, Andrzej recommended us to hear this song by Katarzyna Groniec.
Sviatlana Zadreiko