Saturday, July 10, 2010

Concerts.



Excellent, but hot, day today starting off with scrambled eggs, white kie艂basa and cold coffee. We went to the rynek to take advantage of the concerts this afternoon and were not dissappointed.

The first one, at 11AM featured a violinist and pianist playing outside in front of the town hall. The only negative to it was that the sun was relentlessly beating down on us and after one hour we needed to take refuge from it. Fortunately, at 12:15PM in Fara church, was an organ recital. We walked up Swi臋tos艂awa street to the church and walked in. Cold in the winter time because of no heating, the church is almost air-conditioned like because it is so massive and the sun does not penetrate deeply into to it to heat it up.

The organ recital was excellent. Playing music of Mozart, Bach and a few other composers along with an accompanying soprano, the recital lasted for about fifty minutes.
I'll tell you, until you've sat in a huge church with an immense pipe organ for a recital, you can't imagine the sound produced. It was if the columns holding up the roof had speakers inside them and the floor had bass speakers installed because the sound was incredible. Even though I am not a huge fan of soprano's, the woman who sang was fantastic.

Tha accompanying video shows the organ and some of what the church looks like. The is also a video on the left of the battle of Klushino in 1610. It is the story of one the great victories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and especially of the famed winged Hussars against Russia(Muscovy). Of course, this is just a reenactment of the event but it shows you what the clothing and weaponry was like from that period.

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Pierwszy z nich, przy 11AM bior膮ce skrzypek i pianista gra poza naprzeciwko ratusza. Tylko z negatywnej na to, 偶e s艂o艅ce bezlito艣nie graj膮c na nas i po godzinie musieli艣my ucieka膰 od niego. Na szcz臋艣cie, o godzinie 12:15 pm w ko艣ciele Fara, by艂 motyw narz膮d贸w. Szli艣my w g贸r臋 ulicy 艢wi臋tos艂awa do ko艣cio艂a i wszed艂 na zimno w zimie ze wzgl臋du na brak ogrzewania, ko艣ci贸艂 jest prawie jak klimatyzowany, poniewa偶 jest tak ogromny, a s艂o艅ce nie wnikaj膮 g艂臋boko w jej ciep艂a to.

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Tha towarzysz膮cych film pokazuje organy i cz臋艣膰 tego, co Ko艣ci贸艂 wygl膮da. Jest tak偶e film na lewej bitwie pod K艂uszynem w 1610 roku. Jest to historia jednego wielkiego zwyci臋stwa polsko-litewskiej Rzeczypospolitej, a zw艂aszcza s艂ynny huzar贸w skrzydlate przeciwko Rosji (Moskwa). Oczywi艣cie jest to tylko rekonstrukcji zdarzenia, ale pokazuje co odzie偶y i broni by艂o jak z tego okresu.