Musicians in prague
For my second interview in Prague, I met with Zdeňka Pelikánová (Thanks for the connection professor Simpson) at the cutest bakery a few neighborhoods away from the city center. The tables were the size of TV trays with half of them occupied by jugs of water with lemon circles and basil sprigs that the waitress would occasionally refill. You could watch the baker make his beautiful creations in a side window next to the display of already baked goods.
Zdeňka is a professional musician and has recorded sound tracks for West World and Game of Thrones and is a producer at a studio that records sound tracks for popular shows. She also teaches private music lessons at the local music school, so I picked her brain about life as a professional musician and about music education in Prague. She thinks that musicians have an easier life in Prague because of the many different ensembles one could preform with, usually the four seasons concerts people sell on the streets downtown. She confirmed what Ales told me about music education in Prague and vehemently agreed that music education is very important, but curiously, when I asked what she would change about the classical music culture in Prague, she said she would limit the amount of people that can get into the music schools. Her reasoning was the less people that have a music education, the less struggling musicians there will be, since it is so hard to make it as a musician, even in Prague. Over all we had a lovely conversation and she even invited me to a recording session she was producing the next day. Unfortunately it was too far away from my next meeting that I wouldn't be able to make it in time.
Zdeňka is a professional musician and has recorded sound tracks for West World and Game of Thrones and is a producer at a studio that records sound tracks for popular shows. She also teaches private music lessons at the local music school, so I picked her brain about life as a professional musician and about music education in Prague. She thinks that musicians have an easier life in Prague because of the many different ensembles one could preform with, usually the four seasons concerts people sell on the streets downtown. She confirmed what Ales told me about music education in Prague and vehemently agreed that music education is very important, but curiously, when I asked what she would change about the classical music culture in Prague, she said she would limit the amount of people that can get into the music schools. Her reasoning was the less people that have a music education, the less struggling musicians there will be, since it is so hard to make it as a musician, even in Prague. Over all we had a lovely conversation and she even invited me to a recording session she was producing the next day. Unfortunately it was too far away from my next meeting that I wouldn't be able to make it in time.
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