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Can you hear the sounds of the river?
PRAGUE
Celebrations of 17 th November and commemorating of the deceased President, Václav Havel at the National Theatre. The Velvet Revolution started with demonstrations 17 th November, 1989. It lead to a transition from communism to democracy. It is International Student’ s Day.
The National Theatre –
Bedřich Smetana ' s opera Libuše was given its world premiere opening the theatre in 1881. It helped to preserve the Czech language in the 19 th century and is a very important symbol and place of Czech culture.
Bedřich Smetana( 1824-1884)– a Czech composer of, e. g. opera The
Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast " My Homeland ". You must listen to parts of some of his beautiful compositions, for example Vltava( 12 minutes) here in wikipedia: https:// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / M % C3 % A1 _ vlast

Can you hear the sounds of the river?

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