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19:00 | Festival of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky music |
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 Beethoveen’s Ninth has become the ground zero for our festival because it is not only the peak of the composer, but one of the greatest works of the genre. Hymn to joy, love, and mankind, Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” is in the final of the last symphony of the Viennese classic. As fate would have it, it was with that poem that Tchaikovsky started his artistic path. Though he was reluctant to publish his work, feeling embarrassed to “compete with Beethoven”. Two oldest ensembles, based in the 1930th, would perform Beethoveen’s Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Cantata. One of the most acclaimed conductors, Vadimir Fedoseev, would be on the podium. Fedossev worked with many internationally acclaimed orchestras, but he claims the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, which he has been leading since 1974, to be his life’s work. Despite the fact that the Prague Philharmonic Choir collaborates with Praga National Theatre on a regular basis, and since 2010 it is the resident choir at the Bregenz Opera Festival, its repertoire consists mainly of cantatas and oratorios. The ensemble tours the whole world, and recently it has been seen in St Petersburg. In the summer of 2019, the Choir performed together with Prague Philharmonic Choir at the motherland of Bedřich Smetana. In Litomysl, the native town of the Czech classic, fragments of Russian operas were performed.
Zaryadye Concert Hall  |
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 The rap-metal outfit Limp Bizkit was formed in Florida in 1994 by vocalist Fred Durst and his friend, bassist Sam Rivers. Rivers' cousin John Otto soon joined on drums, and guitarist Wes Borland completed the original foursome (later supplemented by DJ Lethal). By mid-1998, Limp Bizkit had become one of the more hyped bands in the burgeoning rap-metal scene, helped as well by more touring action -- this time with Faith No More and later, Primus -- as well as an appearance on MTV's Spring Break '98 fashion show. Limp Bizkit's much-anticipated second album, Significant Other, was released in June 1999, and it and the accompanying video for "Nookie" made the group superstars. During the Napster flap of 2000, Durst became one of the most outspoken advocates of online music trading; that summer, Limp Bizkit embarked on a free, Napster-sponsored tour.
Megasport Sport Complex |
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11:30 | Manfredo Kraemer (Germany) |
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 Manfredo Kraemer (violin) studied the violin at the music conservatory in Cologne and was one of the founders of Concerto Köln. From 1986 to 1991 he was a member of the famous chamber ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln. Since then Manfredo Kraemer has performed on a freelance basis with various ensembles, including engagements as principal violinist in productions led by René Jacobs, Jordi Savall, and others. He has taught in Caen, France, and Hilversum, Holland, as well as at summer institute in the United States, France, and Spain. A Biber recording with his ensemble The Rare Fruits Council received the French Diapason d'Or prize and has been greeted with superlatives by the international music press. "A musician must play the way he feels but modern instrument players sometimes take a baroque bow and think they are playing baroque. I've played in groups that don't have a conductor but still have a chief. I like the idea of being a little bit democratic, so everyone has an input and a feeling of responsibility, but you need someone to make the final decision. My ideal group would have a basic agreement on musical taste so you don't have to discuss everything. You find a level of non-verbal communication," Manfredo Kraemer.
Zaryadye Concert Hall |
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 Mixing bud smokers' anthems with socially conscious numbers, rapper ScHoolboy Q spent three years in the mixtape underground before launching his career properly in 2011. The first mixtape, the autobiographical Schoolboy Turned Hustla, landed in 2008 and quickly caught the attention of Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment. Lamar would form the Black Hippy collective with ScHoolboy along with Jay Rock and Ab-Soul, and the Top Dawg label would sign the artist. His Gangster & Soul mixtape landed in 2009, and Top Dawg released his official debut, Setbacks, in 2011. In 2012, Top Dawg announced they had signed a joint venture deal with Interscope and Aftermath, which saw Lamar's debut album get a full release. Later that year, ScHoolboy Q announced he was recording his third album and would be the second member of Black Hippy to benefit from the deal. After a series of mysterious tweets in 2013, Q announced that the release would be called Oxymoron, but nearly a year passed before the dark and abstract album -- which featured a whole host of guest producers and vocalists -- was released in February 2014. Nevertheless, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and pushed the single "Studio" into the Top 40. A worldwide tour took up most of 2015, and 2016 saw the "That Part" single drop as a preview of that year's album, Blank Face LP, which debuted at number two. In 2017, he appeared on the Calvin Harris collaborative track "Cash Out" with PartyNextDoor and DRAM, as well as on "Bahamas" with A$AP Mob and "Lil Story" with Gucci Mane. In 2018, he linked up with 2 Chainz and Saudi for the track "X" from the TDE-curated Black Panther soundtrack. Another contribution to a film soon followed, landing ScHoolboy on the Creed 2 soundtrack with 2 Chainz and Mike WiLL Made-It on "Kill 'Em with Success." Three years after Blank Face, he returned his focus to his solo material on "Numb Numb Juice."
Adrenaline Stadium |
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