Hollywood Night

ABOUT

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 Panther, Bullitt, Whiplash, Forrest Gump, Ghostbusters 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 British composer Chris Egan.

Performers

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Chris Egan 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

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