Daniel Pitn: Soumrak V Lese | Twilightin The ForestInkorporace: Exhibition In Vyehrad Gallery, Prague

Daniel Pitín: Soumrak v lese | Twilight in the Forest Inkorporace: exhibition in Vyšehrad Gallery, Prague (2. 9. - 3. 10. 2021)

Jiří Trnka: Sen noci svatojánské (1959) |  A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass Forum Karlín, 2016 Vojtěch Dyk as the Celebrant

We’ve got quarrels and qualms and such questions, give us answers, not psalms and suggestions, give us peace that we don’t keep on breaking, give us something or we’ll just start taking! Dona nobis, dona nobis.

Lubomír Typlt: Studna | Well Nadějné vyhlídky | Great Expectations: exhibition at DOX, Prague (10. 11. 2021 – 24. 4. 2022)

Hildegard von Bingen: O Ignee Spiritus

Hildegard von Bingen (ca. 1098–1179) was a Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher and scientist. Her spirituality was based on the idea of umbra viventis lucis (the reflection of the living Light).

This piece also contains some beautiful light imagery, for example in the line et eius lucerna est desiderium (and desire is its [=the soul’s] lamp), in which the first syllable of the word lucerna is sung on the highest note of the phrase, creating a shining effect in the melody as well.