Journalism of Courage
Dual Treat
The Poona Music Society,in harmony with the Polish Embassy,New Delhi and the Consulate of Poland in Mumbai,has organised a dual delight by hosting ‘Two Pianists’. Polish artistes Krzysztof Trzaskowski and Pawel Sobowiec,will display their virtuosity at Sunday August 22,6.30 pm at Mazda Hall,Dastur School. Both are students of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Sobowiec has performed in Poland,Belgium,France,Germany and Tunisia as a soloist and chamber musician while Trzaskowski has won numerous all-Poland and international competitions and was honoured with a special prize at the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005. The Embassy of Poland in India,in collaboration with INTACH,have also designed the project Chopin for Children ,to bring the brilliance of Chopins music to India,spanning seven cities across the country. They will be performing in Pune,Mumbai,Bengaluru and Delhi,where they would interact with piano students.
Mumbai Capers
The maximum city continues to enamour theater artistes and thinkers. Pune had eloquent glimpses of it’s much adored neighbour,in the play One on One ,which was performed at the Nehru Memorial Hall on August 21. The performance,cut apart in sections of energetic theatrical portrayals of everyday characters,poked fun at the idiosyncracies of common people,pompous bureaucrats and unruly politicians. Sarcasm flowed unabated,as the famous and the infamous were ripped apart by witty jokes and smart one-liners. The cast of Shernaz Patel,Amit Mistry,Neil Bhoopalam,Preetika Chawla,Anand Tiwari,Rajit Kapur,Imran Adil and Bugs Bhargava Krishna alternately left the audience in splits,and drove them to sympathetic melancholy. Minimal props and some intelligent knickknacks let loose on the floor set the mood,but never over-rode the moments. The rapturous applause at the end of the show confirmed that Pune loves Mumbai,and its quirky,yet resilient charm.
