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One on OneAdela Drozdova - violinist and graduate of Prague's prestigious music academy
Adela Drozdova is a charming and most talented violinist who recently
performed a final graduation concert to finish her studies at Prague's
distinguished music academy HAMU, a repertoire that included Baroque works
by Jean Philippe Rameau and Jean-Marie Leclair, as well as contemporary
pieces by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky. Discussed in this week's
One on One: what it takes to become a professional musician, the London
Symphony Orchestra, and just how aggravating it is when a cell phone
goes off in the middle of a concert.
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For most Czechs, Easter Sunday celebrates the coming of Spring and this
year, the organisers of Dvorak's Nelahozeves music festival have chosen
this day for the opening ceremony. Until September 28th, Prague, and the
Central Bohemian villages of Zlonice and Nelahozeves, Dvorak's birthplace,
will host eleven musical programmes, featuring works mainly from Antonin
Dvorak but also other Czech, European and US composers. The opening
ceremony will be held in Zlonice with a performance by a choir from Leeds.
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Current Affairs'Fourth Tenor' José Cura gets ready for gala performance at Prague's Municipal House
It has been slated as the first outstanding cultural event of 2003 - the
first public performance in Prague by Argentinean tenor José Cura. The
so-called 'Fourth Tenor', who is often compared to Carerras, Domingo, and
Pavarotti, will perform arias by great Italian composers at Prague's
Municipal House this coming Friday - and Czechs are anticipating a
wonderful concert.
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ArtsSalvage of Cultural Heritage project continues
The "Salvage of Cultural Heritage" is a project whose main
objective is to seek and preserve significant works by our famous
predecessors which are important for our time as well as for future
generations. The project includes some of the original scores by great
Czech composers from the 19th century, but also the renovation of other
cultural sites, such as Charles Bridge in Prague, the Baroque theatre in
Cesky Krumlov or the house where Gustav Mahler was born at Kaliste near
Humpolec.
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Czechs in HistoryVitezslav Novak
Vitezslav Novak is considered one of the best Czech classical music
composers of the first half of the 20th century. As an old man, he
described his own works in the following words: "...my music has
always been a reflection of my life."
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Current Affairs 120 years have passed since Smetana's 'My Country' was premiered in Prague
This Tuesday it's 120 years since Bedrich Smetana's cycle of symphonic
poems, 'Ma vlast'- or 'My Country'- was premiered in Prague. It was a
significant moment in the history of Czech music and My Country has been
performed regularly ever since in concert halls the world over. Alena
Skodova has more:
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WitnessJan Simon - Tchaikovsky plays second fiddle
The classic image of the piano virtuoso is of a dishevelled eccentric, devoted only to his music and detached from the concerns of everyday life. But the 36-year-old Czech pianist, Jan Simon, is different. He is one of the Czech Republic's best-known contemporary performers, and is both pianist in residence and artistic director of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also a devoted family man. Here he looks back to the birth of his daughter nine years ago, a time when he realized that not even Tchaikovsky has quite the appeal of a newborn daughter.
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Current Affairs Music in a village of violin makers
It isn't often that we bring you a report from a small village church in the mountains. But Paseky nad Jizerou is special. The village is on the western edge of the Krkonose Mountains, about a hundred kilometers north-east of Prague, and every year, just for a few days in August, some of the Czech Republic's top classical musicians gather there.
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Current AffairsJulietta pleads on Lake Constance for better Czech-Austrian relations
The international Bregenz Festival on Austria's Lake Constance opened on Wednesday, with calls for understanding following a series of political disputes. The Czech Republic and its culture is a major theme at this year's festival, which opened with Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's opera Julietta. And as Radio Austria International's Kerry Skyring reports now, the performance on Lake Constance was an attempt to smooth the troubled waters between the two countries. More
