PHOTO: Farewell to Jan Schmid – Information

Not solely the celebrities of the Ypsilon ensemble Martin Dejdar, Marek Eben, Jiří Lábus and Pavel Nový got here to say goodbye, but additionally many different actors, artists, musicians and artists.

In the course of the ceremony, Schmid’s favourite swing songs have been performed, in addition to Gershwin’s Summertime carried out by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The keynote speech was delivered by the historian, colleague and buddy of Jan Schmid, Petr Koura. He summed up his creative profession and referred to as it punk in the most effective sense.

“He had an understanding of doing one thing unusual that goes towards the mainstream. He was a punk, though he was born a minimum of forty years earlier than the phenomenon referred to as punk,” mentioned Koura.

Actor Petr Vacek raised a smile together with his efficiency. He remembered the years he spent in Ypsilonka, which he described as a backyard of normality, an island of independence, humor and decadence. Lastly, on the request of the household of the deceased, Vacek invited these current to say goodbye to Jan Schmid by singing not a funeral music, however a music for his 88th birthday, which might have been celebrated Thursday.

You heard the music Aby te (that’s, Jan Schmid) Pánbůh within the ceremonial corridor. After which one of many nice figures of Czech theater within the second half of the twentieth and the start of the twenty first century was accompanied by lengthy applause on his final go to.