City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
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Prague, Czech Republic |
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Prague, Czech Republic |
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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra is the orchestra that performed the music for the film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They are located in the city of Prague, Czech Republic. The orchestra was started in 1947. While recording for The Clone Wars, the orchestra was conducted by Kevin Kiner.
History
The orchestra started out, after World War II, in 1947, as the in-house full orchestra regularly playing music for film, television and animation productions at the world famous Barrandov Film Studios , in Prague, as well as the historic Krátký Film productions (meaning "short film," in Czech language), and the former Czechoslovak Television. At the time, it was somewhat smaller than today and it was called the Filmový symfonický orchestr (FISYO) (The Film Symphony Orchestra) or was sometimes known as the Film Symphony of Prague. Many wonderful international films were done by this orchestra in the early days. A good example came in 1986, during the frankly grim and hard times of communism/socialism, when David Lynch first came to Prague and recorded the music for his film Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet. Additional recordings are made for film production companies such as Paramount Pictures, Sony, Lucasfilm and many others in the Smečky Sound Recording Studio. David Lynch returned again in 1997 to record his Lost Highway, and yet again in 2001 to record Mulholland Drive.
Fully privatized after the Velvet Revolution, today, the musicians and supporting professionals continue to play and record music together (usually every day of the week) for major international films, television series, CDs/DVDs, new video games for the top two game console makers in the world, (even ring tones)—both for the Czech Republic market and for clients and media productions around the world.
Sources
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on Wikipedia
