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International Music Festivals of 13 towns (Mezinárodní hudební festival 13 měst)

During the eight years of its existence the Concentus Moraviae Festival has built a position as one of the most important festivals in the Czech Republic. Now the second largest classical music festival in our country after Prague Spring, it is unique above all in the extraordinary emphasis placed on the quality and inventiveness of its programming, planned around a different original theme each year. Also contributing to its exceptionality is the fact that the festival concerts, offering first-class performances, are held exclusively in smaller cities and towns of the Czech Republic.

The Concentus Moraviae Festival takes place in thirteen towns of the regions of Vysočina (the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands) and South Moravia, to which additional towns join in each year; in recent years, moreover, two concerts have been held just across the border in neighbouring Austria. The festival opens the door for listeners to dozens of gems of local architecture, from stately homes and castle courtyards through exhibition halls to churches, chapels, and synagogues.

The program for the ninth year of the Concentus Moraviae Festival bears the poetic title ‚Czech Dreams‘. Its author is Aleš Březina – musicologist, composer, and director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute – who in creating it could not overlook the important musical anniversaries the Czech Republic is commemorating this year, thanks to which 2004 has been proclaimed a ‚Year of Czech Music‘.

The combination of the ideas of programming director Aleš Březina with the unique tradition and conception of the Concentus Moraviae Festival has also yielded an international musical project bearing the same title as this year's festival: Czech Dreams.

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