Our stage is not often visited by the masters of two unusual instruments:
the vibraphone – Bernard Maseli, and the
accordion – Marcin Wyrostek. This evening we will hear them in the unique project Schaeffer's Era (Era Schaeffera), which has been aiming to popularize Bogusław Schaeffer's music for years.
This outstanding and still little-known composer was a real human orchestra. Not only did he create music, but he was also an excellent playwright, graphic artist and author of numerous books on music history. His famous
graphic scores have a legendary status in music. Schaeffer did not use classical music notation but a unique pictorial description. Thus, various shapes, lines, figures or graphic signs are intended to reflect the "character" of sounds – their duration, intensity, but most of all, colour. To this day, performing Scheaffer's works is a challenge even for the greatest masters.
Bernard Maseli, undoubtedly the most excellent Polish vibraphonist, is one of them. Maseli is a perfect arranger, composer and teacher who has recorded over sixty albums, including, among others, with Krzysztof Preisner and Anna Maria Jopek with Pat Metheny ...
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Marcin Wyrostek is a similar virtuoso but of the accordion. The artist collaborated with many outstanding conductors (including Jose Maria Florencio, Jerzy Maksymiuk and Adam Sztaba), instrumentalists and soloists (including Kayah, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Bobby McFerrin, Maryla Rodowicz, Irena Santor, Stanisław Soyka) and many symphony orchestras in Poland ...
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The artists will be accompanied by excellent musicians playing such instruments as bass guitar, violin, guitar and drums.
It will be an evening with Scheffer's achievements that fall outside all classification and a meeting with virtuosos who will try to prove that the boundaries between music, theatre, dance and painting do not really exist.
