STAN BRECKENRIDGE

Category: Other Activities

  • Jam Session in Lublin

    Jam Session in Lublin

    On April 13, 2013 Stan Breckenridge participated in a jam session with a number of local musicians at Club Graffiti in Lublin.

  • Jam Session in Łódź

    Jam Session in Łódź

    Stan Breckenridge is jamming with Samokin Band in a rendition of “Summertime”, and an improvisational song about Łódź at the Swingujący Helenów event in Łódź. The event took place on June 22, 2014, and was organized by Centrum Dialogu Łódź.

  • All Souls Day in Poland

    All Souls Day in Poland

  • Chamber Music Concert in Warsaw

    I had the pleasure of attending a chamber music concert at the Filharmonia Narodowa in Warsaw on September 26, 2012. The Wroclawska Orkiestra Kameralna LEOPOLDINUM conducted by Ernst Kovacic, consists of 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, and 2 double bass. The orchestra performed Concerto in D by Stravinsky, Danse sacred…

  • Outdoor Culture Museum in Torun

    At the Outdoor Culture Museum in Torun I was obliged to play an instrument used to scare aware the devil and all other unwanted creatures. It is played by bowing the metal strings while lifting and striking the ground in tempo. If the looks of the instrument don’t do the…

  • Classical Music Concert in Bydgoszcz

    On Friday, September 21, 2012 we (Fulbrighters) attended a classical music concert in the city of Bydgoszcz. The city is located in northern Poland, about 50 kilometers from Torun, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. Performed by the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Takao Ukigaya, selections included vocal pieces…

  • Malbork – Castles and Buildings

    Malbork – Castles and Buildings

    This collection is filled with photos of various castles and buildings throughout Torun and its surrounding territories.

  • Fryderyka Chopina Museum in Warsaw

    Fryderyka Chopina Museum in Warsaw

    Here stands the newly completed Fryderyka Chopina Museum in Warsaw. The museum is adorned with memorabilia of Chopin such as one of his last pianos played by him, original composition manuscripts, various writings about people and things in a number of notebooks and others.

  • Polish Language Classes in Torun

    Polish Language Classes in Torun

    Fulbrighter had the pleasure of taking Polish language classes at the esteemed University of Nicholaus Copernicus. Copernicus (1473-1543) was the astronomer and mathematician who published his work on what he called the heliocentric solar system.