The White Raven was the most outstanding of Jan Pietrzak's collections. Many of the works in “My forbidden songs” are frequently seen as superb and melodious works well designed to improve humor. In fact, even those who claim to be strictly satirical works contain important, deep content, and though they are testimonies of their times – timeless.
The beautifully published book is besides completed by 175 photographs documenting crucial moments from the biography of 1 of the biggest artists of the Polish stage. Among them is simply a photograph in the company of Kornel Morawiecki – the largest of Polish national heroes of our time, whom John Pietrzak connected not only with full understanding, but possibly even with friendship. It is known that both of them had not only large respect, appreciation and gratitude for their accomplishments, but even laid their heads together over the “live” texts under their feathers.
Jan Pietrzak and his “prohibited songs”, publishing home White RavenIn “My forbidden songs” scenes frequently make a happy communicative about how active life in a constant relation with Poland and Poles. Together with the cycle of texts of the most crucial works from the rich work of Jan Pietrzak, they can be a reason for smiling, though always reflected. due to the fact that there's not only something to be moved about, but there's something to think about. It is hard for me not to look at this book from the position of a Pole. And it's 1 who spent a number of young years with akin militant solidarity activists.
Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, trying to explain how it happened that Poland survived between the most aggressive potentials in the full world, that it survived despite having a possible many times smaller than its permanent aggressors, and survived in the territory of the most hard possible, by the strategists called the motorway for tanks, he replied that it is due to the fact that Poland – it is simply a immense and unparalleled spiritual force. It is simply a spiritual force that has caused people to stand in the way of the top powers and to challenge even erstwhile they are in chains of even a power beginning on the Elbe and ending on the Kurils.
Of course, religion in God, certainty of actual values, is the foundation of this spiritual force. large works of literature are besides a large driving force of this Polish spiritual force. First of all songs – songs of large importance to the full Polish group.
Each of the Polish generations fighting for the freedom of their homeland had their own songs. frequently numerous, but time showed which of them was the most important. Today, we have no uncertainty that during the period of struggles with the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, in the days of the Duchy of Warsaw the most crucial song was “Mazurek Dąbrowski”, which has been the anthem of our country for nearly a 100 years. The song of the November Uprising is clearly for us “Warszawianka” Kazimierz De Lawigne. The first song of our full national armed action of the first years of planet War I without a uncertainty – “We First Brigade”. There were many songs in all specified periods. But any of them were so faithful and uplifting in times so hard that they became so close to us that they were almost sacred to us today.
So how will we answer the question of this most crucial song from the times of the Solidarity Generation? There were quite a few them, too. possibly individual would say Jack Kaczmarski's “Mury”. However, 1 must remember nothing about this work, that in the musical layer it is not a Polish composition, but a Catalan composition, but a verbal transposition of the text by Luis Lach. And her pronunciation – surely not optimistic. However, erstwhile we think of the song “To make Poland a Poland” we will rapidly realize not only how it was and is crucial to us, but besides that its pronunciation was always just the right one.
Dropping portraits of the Tsar – after all, our fight was besides a fight against specified false, alien, deadly symbols for Poland. It was the people of Solidarity fighting the Bolshevik flag stuck on the roof of KW PZPR that replaced white and red. Words about Michael Drzymała's opposition – isn't that about us too? Who, if not Solidarity the Fighting 1 and her memorable president were as stubborn as Drzymała? Persistence in fighting for the right cause. And the image of the religion moving – from Chicago to Tobolska? Among those fighting for freedom in the 1980s were besides people from the States, possibly even from Chicago itself. And besides from Canada, large Britain and another countries. And how many people among the Fighting Solidarity people were those who, due to belonging to Poland, were in a place symbolized by Tobolsk – in Siberia. There were even those who were born as children of exiles in Siberia.
“To make Poland Poland” ... The title of this song, alongside the word Solidarity itself, became the most recognizable sign in the planet of Polish goals. No another song in specified an unparalleled way yields experiences, goals – Generations of Solidarity. And the arches – another songs by Jan Pietrzak were crucial to us. For example, the 1 with the words: “When only the wall is struck—the chaotic passion remains—you do not abandon us, hope. Lead us – hope! Hope, in the dark fog – conjure up the spark of faith” (...) Though they are shaking you – you do not leave us, hope. They called you the parent of fools – mean people, tiny people. Lead us in this dark time...”
As an actor, Jan Pietrzak played in Philip Bajon's movie "The evidence of the World" – a movie inspired by Mark Petrusewicz's life. This is our hero Mark Petrusewicz, an unforgettable activist of Fighting Solidarity. The movie refers to the world's swimming evidence and Jan Pietrzak performs in it as a coach of the character de facto being the incarnation of the world's swimming evidence holder – our Mark Petrusewicz.
The patriotic work of Jan Pietrzak is an expression of the same goals and values as the spiritual foundation of Fighting Solidarity. And due to the fact that the communicative is not over and the winds are blowing again and again – the more fresh the extraordinary achievements of Jan Pietrzak are. Wonderfully by the White Raven released the vault of this work is reading as much as possible for today.
Artur Adamski
