{"id":4617,"date":"2025-03-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/?post_type=event&p=4617"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:35:58","slug":"kosarek-levicek-12-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/kosarek-levicek-12-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Karel Ko\u0161\u00e1rek & Ji\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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What happens when a classical pianist with a love for American music joins forces with a jazzman? <\/span>You\u2019ll<\/span> find out at the concert for which Karel <\/span>Ko\u0161\u00e1rek<\/span>, laureate of a series of international competitions and regular piano partner of Magdalena <\/span>Ko\u017een<\/span><\/span>\u00e1<\/span><\/span>, enlists the collaboration of Ji<\/span><\/span>\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek<\/span><\/span>, leading jazz musician with experience performing in the USA.<\/span><\/span> Ko\u0161\u00e1rek<\/span> opens the first half of the evening with <\/span>Copland<\/span>\u2019s popular piece<\/span> <\/span>El Sal\u00f3n M\u00e9xico<\/span><\/span><\/em>, <\/span>whose orchestral form was arranged <\/span>for piano <\/span>in a highly original way by no less a figure than<\/span> Leonard Bernstein. <\/span>This will be followed by <\/span>I<\/span>mpressionist pieces by <\/span>Charles Griffes<\/span> entitled<\/span> <\/span>Three Tone-Pictures<\/span><\/span><\/em>, and the first half of the concert will end with one of <\/span>the most important works in American piano literature<\/span>,<\/span><\/span> Piano <\/span><\/span><\/em>Son<\/span>a<\/span><\/em>ta<\/em> <\/span><\/span>by <\/span>Samuel Barber. <\/span>Ko\u0161\u00e1rek<\/span> will begin the second half with virtuoso etudes which<\/span> Earl Wild <\/span>based on the motifs of famous songs by <\/span>George Gershwin. <\/span>Both pianists will then team up in the half-hour suite for two pianos <\/span><\/span>Point<\/span>s<\/span> on Jazz<\/span><\/span><\/em>, <\/span>which combines classical and jazz forms, such as <\/span>blues, ragtime, <\/span>chor<\/span>ale<\/span> a<\/span>nd<\/span> fug<\/span>ue<\/span>. Dave Brubeck<\/span> wrote the <\/span>work<\/span> in the early 1960s, originally as <\/span>a <\/span>ballet <\/span>suite<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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