The Wrocław Philharmonic with soloists Aga Damrych, and Marta Dzwonkowski, under the direction of Andrew Kosendiak, will present the most popular and beloved songs of the local comedic cabaret tradition by Jan Kaczmarek, poet, satirist, and leader of Elita’s cabaret.
Jan Kaczmarek was born on June 6, 1945, in Lwów, Poland, now located within the borders of Ukraine. While attending Wroclaw University of Technology, and Electronics, in 1969, he founded Elita’s cabaret with fellow students Tadeusz Drozd and Jerzy Skoczylas. Long associated with the Wroclaw radio program Studio 202, the world's oldest cyclic satirical radio program, which features writers such as Andrzej Waligórski, whose texts gave birth to myriads of these wonderful songs, and arrangements by Jan Walczyński, both funny and mind-boggling, satirical and thoughtful.