The festival will kick off on Monday 16th of November with the performance of three Moravian choirs in St. Ludmila church at Náměstí Míru square, in which they will conclude together with a rendition of Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989.
On Tuesday 17th the piazza of the National Theatre will become a venue for an open air performance of the rock ensemble Eversmiling Liberty. Its Danish composer used the libretto of Georg Friedrich Händel’s oratorio called Judah Maccabee and composed a new rock music score to it. In the presence of one of its creators, Jens Johansen, it will be performed by a high school choir numbering several hundred singers led by Libor Sládek.
The festival will peak on the same day with a special concert under the auspices of Václav Havel in Dvorak hall in the Rudolfinum. Here academic choirs from across the Czech Republic will sing, among other pieces, Dvorak’s Te Deum, op. 103, and will be accompanied by the 17th November Orchestra conducted by Lubor Pešek. The concert begins at 8p.m. and will be broadcast live on Český rozhlas 3 – Vltava radio station.
The final concert of the whole festival in Prague will take place in the Great Hall of Prague Hlahol on Sunday, 22nd of November, at 5p.m. and will be dedicated to Bohuslav Martinů.
