IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, OLD WOMAN, TURN THE GRAMOPHONE

SUNDAY EVENING IN A SYNCOPIC RHYTHM.

Sunday afternoon and evening, Theatre Day is taking place at Folkovky. You are strolling through the park, when suddenly, in the distance, you hear jazz music that seems to be very old, which is now played a lot on the radio. You go closer, sit down, listen to songs about Vendelín, who shamelessly took it hard and you don't want to go anywhere.
The response to the orchestra, which was once one of the few in the world playing early jazz, blues and swing in the most authentic way possible, is still the same everywhere: older generations nostalgically recall black-and-white films for those who witnessed it, and young people remember what music their grandparents "slid" on the dance floor to, and when no one is looking, they take out their mobile phones and find out what a mellophone, cornet or sousaphone is and maybe also where New Orleans is, where this music was born in the 1920s. And half a century later, in Prague, the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra. It was founded by musician, teacher and musicologist Pavel Klikar, who unfortunately left us forever in February of this year. But he raised good followers who took over the ensemble after him with the same effort to preserve its musical patina, to constantly remind us that "it is not only for today that it is worth living".