On the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, the Warsaw Autumn Festival explores the relationship between modern music and the reality it addresses. Modern music and the public cause, as a community and civic medium, an expression of personal and social identity. The programme of this year’s Warsaw Autumn is framed by the words of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Rafał Augustyn and Cezary Duchnowski’s text-and-sound composition, which will open the Festival, and Louis Andriessen’s De Staat (The Republic), a legendary treatise on statehood and power, with texts from Plato’s Republic, which will closure Warsaw Autumn.