Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:21:22 +0200https://english.radio.cz/smetana-zappa-interview-director-prague-spring-international-music-festival-8073657© 2026 Radio Prague International Hello and welcome to another edition of Encore, our monthly programme devoted to classical music. Now, it's not by chance that I started the programme with an extract of the Czech Philharmonic performing Smetana's My Country - one of the potent symbols of the Czech national revival in the 19th century. My Country is traditionally played at the opening concert of the Prague Spring international music festival, which begins on Monday and continues over the next three weeks. 2003 is the festival's fifty-eighth year, and over the decades the festival has acquired a reputation as a major event on the international music calendar, at the same time enjoying the affection of concert goers for its informal atmosphere. And if you assume that the festival is a conservative, traditional and solemn event, this year you'll certainly be in for some surprises. To talk about that and more I'm joined now by the man who has been directing the Prague Spring for the last two years, Roman Belor. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/smetana-zappa-interview-director-prague-spring-international-music-festival-8073657 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9