Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Polish Night on Tunes of Accordion at Cairo Opera House


Thu 05 Dec 2019 | 01:41 AM
Nour El-Hoda Fouad

Corazon, one of the emerging Polish bands, led by Marcin Verostick, an accordion player, participated in the concert organized by the Polish Embassy in Cairo yesterday.

The Polish Embassy in Cairo organized a concert at the Opera House. It witnessed the participation of one of the emerging Polish bands called Corazon Band.

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They presented classic pieces from Argentina and Latin America in a way that combines modern Jazz and Tango.

The band is led by Marcin Verostick, an accordionist who presented some of his new album POLACC, with P. Zoval, Astor Piazzola, Carol Shima Novsky, Vitold Vivaldi, Fuchier Keller and Jak Manjun.

They presented 12 different pieces with vital music distributions. The band was distinguished by the seriously and strength of the entry of each instrument as if its right place. No musical instrument overwhelms another as each one has a clear and influential role in the themes.

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While the band’s performance relied on the folk music of their country and their cultural surroundings, they have manifested modernity through the guitar, piano, and drums, which was blended with the Arab and African drum rhythms.

They also blend with it the violin, played by a talented musician, who the attendees could not take your eyes from while he is playing.

He played as if he was in a romantic relationship with his musical instrument and dancing with his beloved with passion, aggression, sincerity, more so, some strings of his violin threads were cut from the how strong his performance was at the end of the ceremony.

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In his solo pieces, Marcin relied on what he described as the way of Man Orchestra, a characteristic of the accordion instrument. It has varied acoustic details, unlike any other instrument, as well as the intimacy of his playing. Unlike any other musical instrument, the Accordion always connects to the body of its player as if he embraces it.

The program included Choudzoni, free Tango, Mazurka, Palenka, the death of Queen of Scots Mary, Winter and the children of Sanchez and Moldao.

 

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Noteworthy, Verostick is the second season winner of Bulent Got Talent. He is a lecturer at the Polish Academy of Polish Karol Shemanowski and a member of the American Association of Musicians. He won several international awards, including Detroit in the United States in 2005, and Estrun in Hungary in 2003 and Reinach in Switzerland Hamm 2003.

His band has four musical albums, The Magic of Tango in 2010, which relied on the merger of the Tango with the Jazz and won the Platinum Award. He relied on popular Polish music and folklore.

The second is "For Ales", representing his interest in chamber music, the symphony orchestra, and the "Colorage" which relied on rhythm playing the Balkan music, the last of which was "Polas" which relied on popular Polish music and folklore.

Contributed by Ahmad El-Assasy