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Sunday Music ShowCzech music composer Karel Svoboda
This week’s Sunday Music Show is devoted to Karel Svoboda one of the
country’s most prolific composers, the author of countless hit-songs,
well-known scores for films, musicals, TV series and theatre productions.
Although the man himself was never centre stage several generations of
Czechs grew up with his music and people still hum many of his evergreens. More
Sunday Music ShowKarel Mareš - Czech pop-music composer
In today’s Sunday Music Show we will feature the greatest hits by the
Czech pop-music composer Karel Mareš who died last month at the age of 84.
A composer, lyricists, pianist, screenplay writer, theatre and film
director, theatre manager as well as an occasional actor, this
inconspicuous “man at the back” had a significant influence on the
development of Czech popular music of the 1960s. More
Sunday Music ShowZdeněk Liška - the most prolific Czech film score composer
This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to the late Czech film-score
composer Zdeněk Liška who was recently rewarded posthumously by the
Culture Ministry for his outstanding contribution to Czech cinema. An
extremely prolific composer, between the 1950s and 1980s Zdeněk Liška
wrote the scores to some 500 feature films, television series and
documentaries. More
SpecialMusic of the First Republic
The independence of Czechoslovakia, which we celebrate each October 28, was
the result of a movement of many decades, and when at least it came, in
1918, after four hard years of war, the joy must have been very palpable.
There are so few alive today who can remember that period, but it is
certainly not lost to us, and one of the ways we can relive it is through
the music of the day.
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Current AffairsCzech theatrical legend Jiří Suchý turns 80
The popular Czech actor, singer, songwriter, playwright, painter,
screenwriter and director Jiří Suchý turned 80 on Saturday. In top form,
the living legend of Czech theatre received standing ovations at a special
concert he held to celebrate his birthday at Prague’s Semafor theatre. More
Sunday Music ShowAntonín Dvořák - a personal tribute
On this week’s Sunday Music Show we mark the birthday of Antonín
Dvořák, who would have 170 candles on his birthday cake this year.
Unfortunately he only lived to the age of 63, enjoying a career of about
four decades, but he saw the kind of success in his day that few composers
could dare to hope for. Today’s show is a personal tribute to one of the
greatest masters of Western musical history. More
SpotlightCzech Museum of Music celebrates Dvořák's 170th birthday
It’s September, and all other anniversaries aside, that means the
birthday season of the genius Antonín Dvořák. Had the Czech musical
maestro lived to his deserved age he would be 170-years-old this month,
and
music-lovers and –ologists are marking the occasion with all due
enthusiasm. Alongside the Dvořák festivals and radio tributes this month
there is also the uniquely interesting, interactive Dvořák exhibition at
the Czech Museum of Music (Karmelitská 2, Malá Strana), which is our
destination in this week’s Spotlight. More
Czech HistoryLeoš Janáček, the composer for a new republic
The first two names always given at the top of the pantheon of Czech
classical music are Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana; the third is
invariably Leoš Janáček. Probably the most innovative of the three,
Janáček likely lags behind the famous duo only because even today, 80
years after his death, musicians, musicologists and music lovers are still
reassessing those innovations, which took classical music into uncharted
territory. More
Sunday Music ShowA tribute to composer Ladislav Simon
Last Thursday, Czech Radio lost one of its most esteemed colleagues and the
Czech Republic one of the major figures in modern music with the death of
Ladislav Simon at the age of 82. His music has been a staple of television,
radio and contemporary classical music for more than half a century and he
was tirelessly involved in the artistic management of some of the
country’s leading cultural institutions, such as the National Theatre,
and the founding of Czech Television and the Prague Philharmonia. More
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