Hollywood Night
2025 season Prague Proms Film

Hollywood Night


Municipal House, Smetana Hall

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

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 British composer Chris Egan.