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From Baroque spirituality to guitar improvisation
In the Arts this week we visit two concerts and look at two rather
different musical projects. The first one is an international guitar
festival Guitar Across Styles. The second is a musical group, the Czech
Chamber Ensemble which has a passion for Czech baroque music.
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The Rajko Ensemble: celebrating the influence of Romany tradition on classical music
The Gypsy fiddler is an enduring Romany stereotype, but we often forget
there are also many Romany classical musicians and that in Central Europe
the Romany tradition has had a huge influence on the history of classical
music. Recently, as part of the Prague Autumn music festival, Czech
audiences had the chance to hear the Rajko Ensemble from Hungary, with a
concert in the Lucerna Ballroom that celebrated these links. All the
orchestra's members are Roma; many are students or graduates from the
Rajko School in Budapest, where talented Romany children learn to become
professional musicians. The head of the ensemble's advisory board, Beatrix
Berendy, spoke to Radio Prague about the Rajko Ensemble's past and present.
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Music on Film festival returns to Prague
In the Arts this week, we look at the Music on Film - Film on Music
festival or MOFFOM as it's known, which is now in its second year. This
event is an innovative celebration of the special relationship between
music and film.
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Singer-songwriter Jaromir Nohavica moving on to North America after shows in Ireland, UK
Jaromir Nohavica is one of the country's best loved singer-songwriters. He
is so popular that his concerts are always sold out, despite usually not
being advertised at all. But not content with resting on his laurels here
in the Czech Republic, the north Moravian singer has just embarked on a
tour of cities in the English speaking world. So far Nohavica has appeared
in Dublin and London, from where his tour manager Michal Zacek told us how
it has been going so far.
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Encore: Finding an answer to Dvorak's "Question"
A new CD brings Dvorak's piano compositions to a broader audience; the
Smetana Trio revives Novak's Trio in D minor, and a historic Prague Spring
recording is available at last.
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Two leftfield classical music festivals get underway in Prague
In this week's Arts, we look at two slightly offbeat classical music
festivals: the wonderfully eclectic Strings of Autumn event, which is
celebrating its tenth aniversary, and Prague's International Chamber Music
Festival, which promotes an often-neglected side of classical music.
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No Eurovision for the Czech Republic?!
Many of you are probably familiar with the Eurovision Song Contest, an
annual contest in which European countries compete for the best pop song.
It has been taking place since 1956, and hundreds of millions of people
all around the world now tune into it each year. But those hundreds of
millions do not include the Czechs.
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Salvage 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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