The 65th anniversary of the Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret is celebrated on the birthday of Piotr Skrzynecki, on September 12, 2021. On that day, from the tower of St. Mary’s Church, after the bugle call at noon, the cellar hymn “Our youth” will sound, and in the evening the artists will perform on the stage of the Teatr im. Juliusz Słowacki in Krakow.
A symbol of Krakow
“We do not set up any a priori programs. Freeing ourselves from old patterns, not accepting new ones, is probably our greatest dream. But first of all, to understand and get to know ourselves” – said Piotr Skrzynecki in an interview in 1956. Over the next six decades, cabaret became a cult artistic center and an informal symbol of Krakow, and the songs sung there permanently entered the history of Polish literary song.
Some of them will resound on September 12. “Blue Frying Pan”, “We come, go,” Baczyński’s “Poems of war”, “Ballad about the miraculous birth of Bolesław Krzywousty” or “Moja Litania”, as well as other unforgettable songs from the repertoire of Piwniczne performers will be heard by the guests of the Piwnica pod Baranami concert, which on Sunday at. 18 will start at the Słowacki Theater. There will also be “Desiderata”, but there will also be premiere songs, specially prepared for this evening. In this way, the band will celebrate its 65th anniversary.
The concert will be a sentimental journey after the 65th anniversary of Cabaret. We will refer to songs that were written from the 1950s to the present day. So we cannot forget about such people as Ewa Demarczyk, Leszek Długosz, Krzysztof Litwin and Mietek Święcicki.
says Bogdan Micek, director of Piwnica pod Baranami
Everyone – 4 generations! – will be there 🙂
During the concert, the whole, almost 30-person band of Piwnica pod Baranami will perform. It is a total of four generations of Piwniczna, including Ewa Wnukowa, Kamila Klimczak, Dorota Ślęzak, Ola Maurer, Tamara Kalinowska, Agata Ślazyk, Beata Czernecka, Tadeusz Kwinta, Miki Obłoński, Maciej Półtorak, Leszek Wójtowicz, Rafał Jędrzejczyk, Krzysztof Janicki, Czesław Wojtała, Jakub Zuckerman and Alosza Awdiejew. They will be accompanied by such musicians as Agata Półtorak, Michał Półtorak, Michał Chytrzyński, Paweł Kuźmicz, Paweł Pierzchała, Tomasz Kmiecik, Adrian Konarski and Jerzy Wysocki. Guests will also appear on the stage – Joanna Słowińska and Sergiusz Orłowski. The concert will be not only a musical feast, but also an opportunity to trace the artistic phenomenon of Piwnica pod Baranami.
Outstanding texts, a developed repertoire, musical pieces, fascinating stage personalities, humility for art and, at the same time, great respect for the audience – all this allowed Piwnica to act artistically for these 65 years. Thanks to this, it is still a magical, cult place, frequented and known almost all over the world. With this jubilee, we want to show what was and is the most beautiful in Piwnica – emphasizes the director of the Kabaret.
Piwnica Pod Baranami – History
The artistic cabaret Piwnica Pod Baranami was founded in 1956 by Piotr Skrzynecki with the participation of students from Krakow’s universities, including Bronisław Chromy and Krzysztof Penderecki. The Cellar quickly became an important artistic center of the city’s cultural life. Zbigniew Preisner, Grzegorz Turnau and Jacek Wójcicki made their debuts at Piwnica. There were also jazz legends, such as: Krzysztof Komeda, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stańko, Wanda Warska and Jarosław Śmietana. Skrzynecki said about the unique cabaret and the people who create it: “We are an island in a sea of bestiality, dullness, stupidity, villainy, cynicism, intolerance and violence.”
Yours truly,
The Twisted Red LadyBug
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