Composer Karl Svoboda will be honored at this year’s ninth edition of the Film Soundtrack Music Festival, which starts in Poděbrady this Thursday, August 29. It will last until Sunday, September 1. In the main program, Svoboda’s most famous film and television songs will be heard on the stage under the local castle.
“We have been fighting for a concert that would celebrate the film and television work of Karel Svoboda for several years. In the past, due to the rights of several people, it was not possible quite easy,” said the festival’s executive director Mirek Paskovský . Freedom he died in 2007, he was 68 years old.
The audience will be treated to music from the films Noc na Karlštejn, Three Nuts for Cinderella or the series Cirkus Humberto, Visitors and Flying Chestmír. “Almost 30 songs will be performed, as well as film and television, for example from the musical Dracula,” said the director.
Everything will be accompanied by clips from the films. The composer Michal Worek provided the repertoire and arrangement of the compositions, the concert will be performed by the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic under the baton of Kryštof Marek.
Music of the Festival This will start on Thursday, August 29, in the castle garden with an evening concert by actor Petr Vondráček and his rock’n’roll band Lokomotiva. After the Czech bands Mydy and Monkey Business, the main stars of Friday’s program are the British Molotov Jukebox, led by the thirty-nine-year-old British actress Natalia Tena, known as Nymphadora from the film series Harry Potter or Osha from. Game of thrones fantasy. Her six-piece in London mixes elements of Roma music with swing, dubstep or dance music in their music.
On Saturday morning, the program on the main stage will be opened with a projection of the fairy tale Čertí brko with a live orchestra and a soloist. The program ends with a concert called Le Magnifique, which has Achdřej Brzobohatý a performance in the role of a symphony orchestra conductor playing the most famous film pieces from French comedies. People can look forward to music from the films Animal, Chetník ze St. Tropez, Fantomas, The Man from Acapulco or the saga of Angelica in love.
Slovak singer Jana Kirschner will close the festival on Sunday afternoon. The program will be held on five stages, three of which will be in Poděbrady park for free. In addition to live music and film screenings, the organizers offer workshops and performances. Special films such as Masaryk, Hastrman, Hodinářuv učen or Bob Marley: One Love will be shown, for example, in a cinema bus on the banks of the Elbe, in the castle garden or in the cinema at the castle.
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