PHOENIX CITIES and WAR HORNS
MUSIC AND HISTORY
"War Horns" is a concerto composed for horns and it became the foundation of Pawel Pudlo’s multidisciplinary project called "Phoenix Cities," which combines history and music. Through these two complementary narrations – the language of art and the language of facts – the Phoenix Cities project tells the stories of the most destroyed cities of World War II that have since risen from the ashes. The project's premise combines historical lectures and the music concert, allowing the project to attract a broad and diverse audience.
MOTTO OF THE PROJECT
Hope for the future, without forgetting the past
THE CITIES
Phoenix Cities project is dedicated to the following cities:
Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Rotterdam,
Coventry, Manila, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo,
Stalingrad (Volgograd) and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg).
THE PREMIERE
The premiere of the project – dedicated to Warsaw – took place on 11 October 2017 at the Warsaw Uprising Museum in Warsaw (Poland) on the scene set against the unique backdrop of a Liberator plane. In accordance with the project’s premise, the event consisted of a history lecture about pre- and post-war Warsaw and its citizens and the concert of the ‘War Horns’ piece.