2024-08-30 19:10:32
Composer Karl Svoboda will be paid tribute to this year’s ninth edition of the film music festival Soundtrack, which starts in Poděbrady this Thursday, August 29. It will last until Sunday, September 1. In the main program, Svoboda’s best-known film and television melodies will be heard on the stage under the castle here.
“We have been striving for a concert that would celebrate the film and television work of Karel Svoboda for several years. In the past, due to the rights held by several people, it was not entirely easy,” says the festival’s executive director Mirek Paskovský. Svoboda died in 2007, he was 68 years old.
The audience will be treated to melodies from the films Noc na Karlštejn, Three Nuts for Cinderella or the series Cirkus Humberto, Visitors and Flying Chestmír. “Almost 30 songs will be played, in addition to film and television, for example from the musical Dracula,” the director mentions.
Everything will be accompanied by clips from the films. Composer Michal Worek provided the repertoire and arrangement of the compositions, the concert will be performed by the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic under the baton of Kryštof Marek.
The Soundtrack Festival will begin this Thursday, August 29, in the castle garden with an evening concert by the actor Petr Vondráček and his rock’n’roll band Lokomotiva. After the Czech bands Mydy and Monkey Business, the main stars of the Friday program will be the British Molotov Jukebox, led by the thirty-nine-year-old British actress Natalia Tena, known as Nymphadora from the Harry Potter film series or Osha from the fantasy Game of Thrones. Her London six-piece mixes elements of Roma melodies with swing, dubstep or dance music in their music.
On Saturday morning, the program on the main stage will be opened by a projection of the fairy tale Čertí brko with a live orchestra and soloists. The program culminates in a concert called Le Magnifique, at which Ondřej Brzobohatý will present himself as the conductor of a symphony orchestra playing the most famous film compositions from French comedies. People can look forward to music from the films Animal, Chetník ze St. Tropez, Fantomas, The Man from Acapulco or the saga of Angelica in love.
Slovak singer Jana Kirschner will close the festival on Sunday afternoon. The program will take place on five stages, three of which in the Poděbrady park are to be free. In addition to live music and film screenings, the organizers offer workshops and exhibitions. Feature films such as Masaryk, Hastrman, Hodinářuv učen or Bob Marley: One Love will be shown, for example, in the cinema bus on the Elbe embankment, in the castle garden or in the cinema at the castle.
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