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Current AffairsClassical music fans descend on capital for 66th Prague Spring festival
Classical music fans are gearing up for one of the most prestigious events
in the cultural calendar – the Prague Spring International Music
Festival, which gets underway on Thursday evening. Founded in 1946, as a
newly-liberated Czechoslovakia was emerging from six years of war and Nazi
occupation, the festival has survived communist dictatorship and the
commercial pressures of capitalism to remain the country’s preeminent
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Current AffairsPrague Spring Music Festival set to launch 65th year
Just a week to go and the 65th International Prague Spring Music Festival
takes to the many stages of the Czech capital. This year will see more than
60 concerts, theatre performances and other events and bring some of the
world’s best composers and musicians to Prague. And what’s more, young
performers will also about at this, one of Europe’s most important music
festivals.
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One on OnePianist Jan Simon on Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and what he was doing when he was ‘sweet sixteen’
My guest today in One on One is concert pianist and director of the Prague
Radio Symphony Orchestra Jan Simon. Simon has studied with some of the
great pianists including compatriot Ivan Moravec in Prague and the
Uruguayan-born Homero Francesch in Zurich. He also trained in Berlin before
becoming the youngest ever soloist in residence of the Prague Radio
Symphony Orchestra in 1994. When I met him to bask in the sun on his
balcony, Jan Simon started by telling me about his musical family
background:
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