Smetana’s Litomyšl
National festival | 10. 6. - 6. 7. 2021
10th June - 6th July 2021
Program announcement
May 17 2021
Presale launch
May 26 2021
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Bedřich Smetana was a significant composer in the romantic period. From his early youth he concerned himself with music, especially playing the piano and composition.
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The grand festival of classical music Smetana’s Litomyšl has been held since 1946 in the home town of the founder of Czech national music Bedřich Smetana, the old-fashioned east Bohemian town of Litomyšl.

Litomyšl can boast of both ancient and modern architecture, a rich social life but at the same time plenty of peace and quiet.

The Smetana’s Litomyšl festival is the second oldest music festival in the Czech Republic, and at the same time it is among the largest regular classical music festivals held in the country.
Wednesday, 2nd July, 21.00, 2nd Castle Courtyard
Mike Oldfield / David Bedford: THE ORCHESTRAL TUBULAR BELLS (Czech premiére)
Pink Floyd / Ron Geesin: ATOM HEART MOTHER
Forty years ago, David Bedford made an adaptation of the legendary Oldfield's composition for symphonic orchestra; in 1979, NASA used it as a background music to The Space Movie dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the successful flight of Apollo 11 to the Moon (this project was also participated in by Prof. Zdeněk Kopal).
Even a few years older album Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd remains to these days one of the most progressive compositions combining classical music and rock.
Jiří Bárta - cello
Atom Heart Mother Band:
Michal Kašpar - guitar, Vladimír „Guma“ Kulhánek - bass guitar, Svatopluk Chalupa - keyboards, Martin Vajgl - drums and percussion
Žerotín Olomouc Academic Choir, choirmaster Pavel Koňárek
Hradec Králové Philharmonic
Conductor: Stanislav Vavřínek
Estimated end: 23.10 hrs
Number of intermissions: 1
The programme uses a sound system