Smetanova Litomyšl - Houston Symphony Chorus

63. National Festival Smetana's Litomyšl

10th June - 6th July 2021

Program announcement

May 17 2021

Presale launch

May 26 2021

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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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Sobota 17. června, 15.00 hodin, Piaristický chrám Nalezení sv. Kříže

Černošské spirituály
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, pro kontratenor, smíšený sbor a bicí nástroje
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mše C dur „Korunovační“
Antonín Dvořák - Te Deum, pro sóla, sbor a orchestr op. 103

Účinkují:

Václav Polívka – kontratenor
Lucie Vagenknechtová – soprán
Stanislava Jirků – mezzosoprán
Richard Samek – tenor
Daniel Klánský – bas
Houston Symphony Chorus
Sbormistr Betsy Cook Weber
Komorní filharmonie Pardubice
Dirigent Marek Štilec