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SpecialUsing classical music to help children out of poverty
In this special programme, David Vaughan looks at a unique project to
encourage children with musical talent who come from some of the poorest
families in the Czech Republic. The project enables primary school children
to learn to play with some of the country’s foremost classical musicians.
Its success is a reminder of the power of music to cross boundaries of
language, class and culture. More
PanoramaNews from the regions
In this week’s Panorama: a dispute over a Carpathian wooden church ends
in a surprising manner, home-made folk music instruments and an almond
orchard in Moravia. More
SpotlightThe Estates Theatre - Prague's oldest stage, and Mozart's favourite
It is a key anecdote in Czech musical history: that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
felt better in Prague than anywhere else. That feeling was based - among
other things, no doubt - on his outstanding success at the city’s Estates
Theatre, which was the scene of that and other important moments in Czech
cultural history. And it’s the focus of today’s Spotlight by Christian
Falvey.
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MagazineMagazine
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs in Prague! A schoolgirl from the
Czech Republic has won first prize in an international letter-writing
competition, and the Czech Republic may soon get its first dark-sky
reserve. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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SpotlightFamous Czech piano-maker switches to kitchens to survive crisis
The Czech Republic has so far escaped the worst of the global recession,
but it is beginning to bite now – worrying news at a time when the
country’s government has collapsed. Small manufacturing companies that
depend heavily on exports are really feeling the pinch – especially those
that make goods for a very specialised market. Rob Cameron has been to the
Petrof piano factory in Hradec Kralove to see how they’re coping with the
crisis.
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Business NewsBusiness News
In this week's Business News: The Czech government has announced a tender
for software worth 1.5 billion crowns; safety inspectors are to begin
checking Asian restaurants around the country, making sure that they are
not using Chinese milk; a fraud case brought against the state-owned energy
company Čepro by the Czech High State Attorney's Office has been halted;
new figures from the Czech Trade and Industry Ministry suggest that sales
of Czech-made musical instruments have fallen sharply; in a surprise move,
a gas-tax reduction bill proposed by the opposition Social Democrats has
passed its first reading in Parliament and despite continuing unrest in the
global financial markets, three Czech companies are to sell shares on the
Polish stock market.
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Business NewsBusiness News
In Business News this week: It looks like the national bank will postpone
cutting interest rates; Plans to privatise Prague Airport have attracted no
small amount of interest; over a quarter of a million foreigners are
currently working in the Czech Republic; the insurer Lloyd’s is set to
enter into the Czech market, and the discord between piano makers Petrof
and their former American distributor continues.
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Current AffairsTraditional Czech wood for musical instruments in short supply
The deep forests of the Sumava Mountains in South Bohemia used to abound in
spruce trees whose wood was of such high quality that it was used for the
production of musical instruments in workshops around Europe. But these
legendary tone spruce trees are becoming increasingly rare owing to
changes in the environment and forest management.
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Arts"The People of Prague Pay Homage To Me" - a tribute to Mozart
In this week's Arts, we visit the Mirror Chapel of Prague's Clementinum,
where a new exhibition has just opened. It is part of the MOZART PRAGUE
2006 project launched this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth
of the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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