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The Museum of Modern Art and
the Polish Cultural Institute
present:


A SELECTION OF POLISH JAZZ FILM POSTERS

AS PART OF JAZZ SCORE – MoMA's CELEBRATION OF THE BEST ORIGINAL JAZZ SCORES FOR FILM
FROM THE 1950s TO THE PRESENT


Byl Jazz
Lech Majewski, a poster for Feliks Falk's And All That Jazz (1981)

APRIL 16 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 and 2 lobbies
11 West 53th Street, New York, NY 10019
Wed.-Mon.: 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Fri.: 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM. Closed on Tuesday.
Admission: free with film tickets; MoMA's admission: $20, $16 seniors, $12 students (includes MoMA galleries and films),
Free on Fridays, 4:00-8:00 PM. More information: www.moma.org, 212.708.9400

The Museum of Modern Art’s Jazz Score includes a broad representation of Polish films, many featuring the music of KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA, among other FILMS with music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Toru Takemitsu, and Wynton Marsalis; two live performances – one of them being A CONCERT Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet with special guest Billy Harper – and an international gallery exhibition that features POLISH POSTERS for films with jazz scores, among many other artifacts.

The gallery exhibition of Jazz Score celebrates the sophistication and innovation that postwar jazz has brought to the art of live-action and animated films. Jazz continues to have a dramatic impact on the visual design of film trailers and the graphics of film promotion.

Among international works, a wide selection of Polish posters is presented: for Knife In the Water byJan Lenica, for There Was Jazz by Lech Majewski, for Blow-Up by Waldemar Swierzy, Innocent Sorcerers byWojciech Fangor, Dilemma byMaciej Hibner, Black Orpheus byAnna Huskowska, Taxi Driver byAndrzej Klimowski, Elevator to the Gallows by Roman Cieslewicz, and Barrier by Leszek Holdanowicz.

Among the more than 100 films one can see masterpieces by Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski and Miroslaw Kijowicz with music by Krzysztof Komeda. A Polanski film with music by Chico Hamilton and a film by Zbigniew Rybczynski with music by Zbigniew Namyslowski will also be screened.

>>> MORE ON THE EXHIBITION
>>> TOMASZ STANKO CONCERT OF MUSIC BY KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA
>>> POLISH FILMS – DETAILED PROGRAM
>>> JAZZ SCORE FULL PROGRAM

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