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 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

Programme

The Pink Panther (1963)
Henry Mancini

Selection from films:

Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West, 1968)

The Intouchables (1987)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966)

and more
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

Born to Be Blue (2015)
When I Fall in Love
Nat King Cole

Philadelphia (1993)
Howard Shore

Black Hawk Down (2001)
Hans Zimmer

The Blues Brothers (1980)
Respect
Otis Redding
Funky Nassau
Tyrone Fitzgerald & Raphael Munnings

“James Bond films”

James Bond Theme

John Barry 

Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall
Thomas Newman

The Band (L'Homme orchestre, 1970)
François de Roubaix 

and more