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Current AffairsFreak Out! Zappa to be performed at Prague Spring Music Festival
One of the world's most prestigious classical music festivals - the Prague
Spring - opened on Monday, with the traditional performance of "My
Country" by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. Over the next three
weeks, audiences will be treated to some of the finest classical music
performed by some of the most talented musicians in the world. But this
year, for the first time in the festival's 58-year history, rock music
will be included in the repertoire. Rob Cameron reports.
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ArtsFrom Smetana to Zappa: an interview with the director of the Prague Spring international music festival, Roman Belor.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Encore, our monthly programme
devoted to classical music. Now, it's not by chance that I started the
programme with an extract of the Czech Philharmonic performing Smetana's
My Country - one of the potent symbols of the Czech national revival in
the 19th century. My Country is traditionally played at the opening
concert of the Prague Spring international music festival, which begins on
Monday and continues over the next three weeks. 2003 is the festival's
fifty-eighth year, and over the decades the festival has acquired a
reputation as a major event on the international music calendar, at the
same time enjoying the affection of concert goers for its informal
atmosphere. And if you assume that the festival is a conservative,
traditional and solemn event, this year you'll certainly be in for some
surprises. To talk about that and more I'm joined now by the man who has
been directing the Prague Spring for the last two years, Roman Belor.
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Current AffairsBritish conductor with Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at Prague Spring 2002
The Prague Spring international music festival has entered its third - and last - week, and on Sunday, the Smetana Hall at the Art-Nouveau Municipal House in Prague hosted the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen with British conductor Trevor Pinnock. Alena Skodova spoke with him at a press conference he gave before the concert.
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ArtsNorwegian Opera and the Gesualdo Consort at Prague Spring festival
As part of the programme of the Prague Spring international music festival currently underway in the Czech capital, the State Opera in Prague has presented the world premiere of a Norwegian opera, called 'Circus Terra." Circus Terra is the second Norwegian opera to be premiered outside Norway, and coincidentally the first one was also premiered in Prague - in the year 1900. More
Current AffairsGesualdo Consort from Britain at Prague Spring music festival
We're nearly half way through the Prague Spring international music festival and classical music lovers have already heard a number of musicians from around the world. One of the British ensembles performing at the festival was the Gesualdo Consort ensemble from London. Alena Skodova met them during a rehearsal in the church of Saint Simon and Saint Jude in the heart of old Prague.
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Current AffairsNorwegian opera premiered in Prague as part of Prague Spring music festival
On Thursday night, as part of the programme of the Prague Spring international music festival currently underway in the Czech capital, the State Opera Prague presented the world premiere of a Norwegian opera, called 'Circus Terra". Its staging is a result of close cooperation between Norwegian and Czech artists, as Alena Skodova reports:
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Current AffairsThe Prague Spring music festival has begun
On Sunday, Bedrich Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems entitled "My Country" opened the 57th annual Prague Spring international music festival. The Prague Spring is the most significant musical event of the year in the Czech Republic, and brings together artists from around the world. Alena Skodova has more:
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