Spring part
9th February, 2010 – COURTNEY PINE & His Band
Courtney Pine – sax, Cameron Pierre – guitar, Robert Fordjour – drums, Zoe Rahman – keyboards, Darren Taylor – bass, Omar Puente – electric violin
The English saxophonist is returning to the festival programme after a longer pause. The...
Today's Prague Symphony Orchestra was founded in the autumn of 1934 by the conductor and musical organizer Rudolf Pekárek. He defined the new ensemble's fields of activity with the words Film-Opera-Koncert, which as the abbreviation FOK became part of the orchestra's title. By recording music for the majority of Czech films in the...
The Czech Philharmonic’s very first concert took place on 4 January 1896 in the Rudolfinum and was conducted by Antonín Dvořák. Before the Chief Conductor’s baton was taken up by the first internationally known conductor, Václav Talich, in 1919, the orchestra was directed by Ludvík Čelanský and Vilém Zemánek, as well as, briefly, by...
RAMMSTEIN - THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL BAND OF THE PRESENT HAS CONFIRMED ANOTHER CONCERT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. THE SIX-MEMBER “SMASHERS” WILL PRESENT THE MATERIAL FROM THE NEW ALBUM TO THEIR FANS IN OSTRAVA ČEZ ARENA IN MARCH NEXT YEAR. AN ULTIMATE CHANCE FOR ALL THOSE WHO DIDN'T GET TICKETS FOR THE HOPELESSLY SOLD-OUT PRAGUE CONCERT.
The...
Born in Britain on December 20, 1948, Alan soon found that his interests lay in music. He studied piano and flute as a child and was always intrigued by gadgetry. He picked up the guitar in his early teens and played as a soloist as well as with various bands at school.
One of his first jobs was at an EMI tape duplication facility in West...
THE FASTEST BRASS BAND IS COMING TO PRAGUE TO PRESENT ITS FIRST LIVE ALBUM AND SELECTION ALBUM CALLED “THE BEST OF GYPSY BRASS”
Respect Plus 2010
THE FASTEST BRASS BAND IS COMING TO PRAGUE TO PRESENT ITS FIRST LIVE ALBUM AND SELECTION ALBUM CALLED “THE BEST OF GYPSY BRASS”
A brass music band? In contrast to its Central European form...