Smetanova Litomyšl, o.p.s.

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Litomyšl Native Bedřich Smetana

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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History of the Festival

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.

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Litomyšl – A Modern Historical Town

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

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Smetana’s Litomyšl Festival

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.

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Houston Symphony Chorus

Saturday 17th June, 15.00 hrs, Piarist Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross

Negro Spirituals
Arr. Moses Hogan: My Soul has been Anchored in the Lord
Arr. Robert Shaw/Alice Parker: I Got Shoes
Arr. Norman Luboff: Deep River
Arr. Moses Hogan: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Leonard Bernstein: Missa Brevis, for counter-tenor, mixed chorus and percussion
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C “Coronation” KV 317
Antonín Dvořák: Te Deum, for soloists, choir and orchestra Op. 103

Václav Polívka – counter-tenor
Lucie Vagenknechtová – soprano
Stanislava Jirků – mezzo-soprano
Richard Samek – tenor
Daniel Klánský – bass
Houston Symphony Chorus
Choirmaster Betsy Cook Weber
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Conductor Marek Štilec

C 90 CZK • B 190 CZK • A 390 CZK

Number of intermissions: 0
Estimated end: 16.20 hrs