Festival Brikcius is a media partner of film music document MAKANNA from the concert performance of a ballet written by composer Irena Kosíková for voice (Jan Židlický) solo cello (František Brikcius) and orchestra (Jan Talich - conductor, Talich Chamber Orchestra), premiered at the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia under the auspices of Sir Tom Stoppard and Václav Havel. The film celebrates the 55th anniversary of the death of the Czech writer Jiří Weil (1900 - 1959). The premiere will launch on Thursday 27th November 2014 at 7.30pm on  YouTube  ( http://www.YouTube.com/FrantisekBrikcius ).

  The next final Christmas concert CELLO AND PIANO & FIVE JUBILEES (Justine Verdier - Piano / France & František Brikcius - Cello) will take place on Thursday 18th December 2014.

  The "Festival Brikcius" - the 3rd chamber music concert series at the Stone Bell House in Prague (Autumn 2014) & "Year of Czech Music" commemorates the 55th anniversary of the death of Bohuslav Martinů, the 70th anniversary of the death of Zikmund Schul, the 95th anniversary of the birth of Gideon Klein, the 110th anniversary of the death of Antonín Dvořák, the 110th anniversary of the birth of Iša Krejčí, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Erwin Schulhoff, the 140th anniversary of the birth of Josef Suk,  the160th anniversary of the birth of Leoš Janáček and the Daniel Pearl World Music Days. The festival is taking place under the auspices of the Mayor of City of Prague, Tomáš Hudeček, under the auspices of the Mayor of Prague 1, Oldřich Lomecký, and in cooperation with the Prague 1 and the City Gallery Prague in the exclusive location of the Stone Bell House in Prague's Old Town square. Concerts take place chosen Thursdays of the months of autumn at 7.30pm. For further information, visit http://Festival.Brikcius.com .

Festivalový tip: The novel Makanna - The Father of Miracles describes the rise and fall of a historical person - a false prophet from the 7th century. ........ "Excavated from ancient times, the alien oriental word becomes in this novel a living, historical, colourful picture reminding us of not-so-distant tyranny. The novel Makanna was written in 1940 and published under a cover name in 1941, whose owner was tortured to death in Mauthausen."