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Hollywood Night

Municipal House, Smetana Hall,

Our concert Hollywood Night is always highly favoured and requested by our audiences. This year, to avoid disappointing them, we are again performing our highly acclaimed concert at the international music festival Prague Proms. We’ve prepared an assortment of iconic film melodies from the movies Pink PantherBullittWhiplashForrest GumpGhostbusters and The Band. Alongside this, we’ll be performing the unforgettable hits of composer Ennio Morricone.

Each concert is a beckoning for us, a chance to carefully select the dramaturgy and the performers to make it a truly magical night. For this event, we’ve invited two Czech soloists, Simona Hulejová and Ondřej Izdný. Introducing themselves alongside the two soloists will be the vocal sextet SKETY, who performed last year at the Prague Proms Festival in a concert which premiered in the Loop Jazz Club. The concert will also feature distinguished international performers, like the Jeremy Winston Chorale, a world-famous and award winning gospel choir. In 2012, the group was invited by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to perform at the White House. This success is not by any means a surprise, as the individual singers within the group manage to perform outstanding vocal feats at every concert they are in.

We are sure that we will surpass all expectations for this year’s audiences and we promise a glorious encore at our listeners’ request. The full concert will be directed by the chief conductor of the CNSO, Steven Mercurio, who was a student of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. Mr Mercurio is both an expert in film scores and an audience favourite, respected by our Czech and international listeners.

Performers

  • Czech National Symphony Orchestra
  • Steven Mercurio conductor
  • Candace Potts, LaVonte Heard, William Ramsey vocals
  • Simona Hulejová vocals
  • Ondřej Izdný vocals
  • SKETY, a cappella sextet:
    Veronika Vítová, Marta Kloučková, Alice Bauer,
    Petr Wajsar, Michal Strnad, Štěpán Janoušek vocals

Gallery

Programme

  • Dreamworks
    Opening Theme
    ​John Williams

  • The Pink Panther (1963)
    Henry Mancini
  • Selection from films:
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966)
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • The Mission (1986)
  • The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens, 1969)
  • The Professional (Le Professionnel, 1981)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West, 1968)
    Ennio Morricone
  • Bullitt (1968)
    Lalo Schifrin
  • Whiplash (2014)
    Duke Ellington
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
    Alan Silvestri 
  • Ghostbusters (1984)
    Elmer Bernstein
  • Star Wars (1977)
    Suite for Orchestra (Main Title)
    John Williams

  • Philadelphia (1993)
    Howard Shore

  • Born to Be Blue (2015)
    When I Fall in Love
    Nat King Cole
  • Black Hawk Down (2001)
    Hans Zimmer
  • The Blues Brothers (1980)
    Respect
    Otis Redding
    Funky Nassau
    Tyrone Fitzgerald & Raphael Munnings
  • Casino Royale (2006)
    Solange
    David Arnold
    Main Theme
    John Barry

  • Skyfall (2012)
    Skyfall
    Thomas Newman
  • The Band (L'Homme orchestre, 1970)
    François de Roubaix