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Petr Pololáník
Petr Pololáník is a Czech conductor, orchestrator and music producer. His father Zdeněk Pololáník belongs to foremost Czech composers. Petr studied both violin, piano and conducting; in 1996, he earned his Master of Arts in conducting at the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Since 1996, Petr has been teaching at the Church Conservatory in Kroměříž, the Film School in Zlín and at the International Conductors Workshops in Kroměříž. In 2001, he became the Executive and artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, one of the oldest symphony orchestras in Europe. As a conductor, he has cooperated with leading orchestras, choirs and opera houses in Czech and abroad, and made several dozens of concert appearances and recordings for film, TV, radio, world known soloists and groups, production companies as well as sample libraries. He is the founder and President of Capellen Music Production and conductor & orchestrator of the industry ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the EU. The Brno metropolitan area has almost 700,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state authorities, including the Ombudsman, and the Office for the Protection of Competition. Brno is also an important centre of higher education, with 33 faculties belonging to 13 institutes of higher education and about 89,000 students. Brno Exhibition Centre is among the largest exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Runner
''Star Runner'' (), (also known in the United States as ''The Kumite''), is a Hong Kong films of 2003, 2003 Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong action cinema, action/romance film co-written and directed by Daniel Lee Yan-Kong, Daniel Lee. It is rated PG-13 by the MPAA "for intense sequences of martial arts action violence". Plot Bond Cheung (Vanness Wu) is a high school student in Hong Kong who has a strong passion for Muay Thai kick boxing. He trains at a local boxing gym, and is instructed by the Kong Ching team trainer Lau (Gordon Liu), in an effort to be a competitor in the Star Runner Pan Asian Martial Arts Competition. While attending summer courses, he is attracted to his new Koreans, Korean teacher Kim Mei Chiu (Kim Hyun-Joo). It is revealed that she is recovering from a break-up in Korea with a former lover and has come to Hong Kong to start over. The two start off as friends, but after a series of fateful events occur, feelings spark, and they eventually begin see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echoes Of The Rainbow
''Echoes of the Rainbow'' (; romanisation: ''Shui Yuet Sun Tau''; literally "''Time, the Thief''") is a 2010 Hong Kong drama film directed by Alex Law and starring Simon Yam and Sandra Ng. It won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Children’s Jury "Generation Kplus" category at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival. It tells the story of a working family in Hong Kong whose eldest son, a popular boy and star athlete, becomes ill with leukemia. The film is set in 1960s British Hong Kong and was shot on the historical Wing Lee Street in Sheung Wan. It was financed by the Hong Kong government's Film Development Fund. Plot The story revolves around the Law family, including parents Mr. and Mrs. Law and their sons, Desmond Law Chun-yat and Law Chun-yi (a.k.a. Big Ears., who is also the film's narrator). They live in a shoe shop on Wing Lee Street, Sheung Wan, in late 1960s Hong Kong. Chun-yi is mischievous, prank-playing and has a poor attitude towards learning, which he often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invincible (Two Steps From Hell Album)
''Invincible'' is the first public album by the group Two Steps From Hell, released in May 2010. It consists of 22 tracks written by composers Thomas J. Bergersen and Nick Phoenix. The tracks are a collection of fan favourites from prior demonstration albums previously only available to the industry, "represent ngthe very best of Thomas and Nick’s first few years at Two Steps From Hell". Two tracks, however, are brand new compositions ("Am I Not Human?" and "To Glory"). Having gained a cult following online following their 2006 creation, fans of the group began "relentlessly begging" for their private industry music to be made available commercially. Two Steps From Hell announced the album in late 2009; Bergersen later confirmed, "we are doing this purely to please our fans". It had the working title of ''Genesis''. Upon release, it went to number 1 on the iTunes Classical charts and remained in the top 10 for over a year. Initially a digital release, it was eventually releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Of Darkness (Two Steps From Hell Album)
''Power of Darkness'' is a demonstration album by the music production group Two Steps from Hell, originally released exclusively to clients in the motion picture and advertising industry for the purpose of licensing in March 2010. It was uniquely distributed on a flash drive, rather than a physical disc. It includes 32 principal tracks, split into two themed volumes. Additionally, it contains a large collection of alternative versions; therefore, in total, ''Power of Darkness'' consists of 77 tracks. They are composed by Thomas J. Bergersen and Nick Phoenix. The album was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic (by Capellen Orchestra), in Los Angeles, and in Utah, United States. The cover artwork and the sleeve are designed by Steven R. Gilmore. Some tracks were made available to the general public on subsequent commercial albums, starting with ''Invincible'' (2010). In 2017, the album was finally released to the public, albeit modified to consist of only tracks which had still not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resurrection Of The Dragon
''Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon'' is a 2008 Hong Kong action war drama film loosely based on parts of the 14th-century Chinese classical novel ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. It was directed by Daniel Lee with a reported budget of US$25 million. The film is a joint production between Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China and South Korea.Elley, Derek.Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon" ''Variety''. Friday 27 June 2008. Retrieved on 13 January 2012. The film publicity said that the film's script received inspiration of Chapter 92 of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''. Patrick Frater of ''Variety'' said that the book is often cited as one of the four most important works in the corpus of Chinese literature.Frater, Patrick.'Kingdom' comes to Arclight Films" ''Variety''. Thursday 3 May 2007. Retrieved on 13 January 2012. The book is also frequently read in South Korea. As the action takes place late in the Three Kingdoms story, the warrior Zhao Zilong, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Rider Clash Of The Evils
''Storm Rider Clash of the Evils'' is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Dante Lam and produced by Puzzle Animation Studio Limited and Shanghai Media Group. It is based on the manhua series ''Fung Wan'' by Ma Wing-shing. Plot The film is a spinoff of the original story and the two protagonists Wind and Cloud. The residents of Sword-Worshipping Manor, which houses the best sword-smiths in the world, are brutally massacred after they are alleged to be plotting a rebellion against the government. The young master of the manor, Ngou Kuet, is the only survivor. Ngou Kuet vows to finish forging the "Kuet" Sword, a task passed down by generations of his family which has yet to be completed. Ngou Kuet attacks Tin Ha Wui and battles with Wind and Cloud to obtain the blood of the Fire Kirin which can unleash the power of the sword. As the blood of the Fire Kirin runs in Wind's veins, he becomes Ngou Kuet's primary target. Voice cast Production The first trailer for the film was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legend (Two Steps From Hell Album)
''Legend'' is a demonstration album by the music production group Two Steps from Hell, originally released exclusively to clients in the motion picture and advertising industry for the purpose of licensing in May 2008. It consists of three discs: two CDs and a bonus DVD. The former contain a total of 37 principal tracks; 20 on disc one and 17 on disc two. The latter includes a large collection of alternative versions; therefore, in total, ''Legend'' consists of 77 tracks.Note that some of the tracks are missing from this link. They are predominantly composed by the group's founding members, Thomas J. Bergersen and Nick Phoenix, as well as some by Troels Folmann. The album was recorded by Capellen Orchestra in Prague, Czech Republic and at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, United States. The cover artwork and the sleeve are designed by Steven R. Gilmore. Some of the group's most successful tracks originate from this release, like "Heart of Courage", "Protectors of the Earth", and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal David
Michal David (born name Vladimír Štancl, 14 July 1960, Prague) is a Czech pop-singer, songwriter and producer. Biography and career He started his music career during his studies in Prague Conservatory in the 1970s where he created a jazz band with his friends, as jazz has been Michal's main passion and an academic concentration. However, after a short period of time, he was hired by a successful pop-music producer František Janeček as a piano player, singer and a song-writer and soon became a teenage girls' idol. Michal David had a very successful career as a singer and composer, however after the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution in 1989, he as well many other Czechoslovak popular singers fell on hard times, since the political situation changed rapidly and the market started to open to other foreign artists and domestic artists lost their popularity for a while. He was also called a pro-regime singer by some critics. During this time Michal David was mainly focusing on c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Odin
Various gods and men appear as sons of Odin or sons of Wodan/Wotan/Woden in old Old Norse language, Old Norse and Old High German and Old English language, Old English texts. Thor, Baldr, Víðarr and Váli Four gods, Thor, Baldr, Víðarr and Váli, are explicitly identified as sons of Odin in the Eddic poems, in the skaldic poems, in Saxo Grammaticus' ''Gesta Danorum'', and in the ''Gylfaginning'' section of Snorri Sturluson's ''Prose Edda''. But silence on the matter does not indicate that other gods whose parentage is not mentioned in these works might not also be sons of Odin. Other gods called sons of Odin by Snorri Sturluson In various kennings, Snorri also describes Heimdallr, Bragi, Týr and Höðr as sons of Odin, information that appears nowhere else in the ''Edda''. # For Heimdall, there is no variant account of his father. # The same may not be true for Bragi if Bragi is taken to be the skaldic poet Bragi Boddason made into a god. # But Týr, according to the Eddic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph Or Agony
''Triumph or Agony'' is the seventh studio album by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire, released in Europe on 25 September 2006. It is the first album that the band released after their name change. ''Triumph or Agony'' features a live 70 piece orchestra and choir and was again self-produced by guitarist/songwriter Luca Turilli and keyboardist/songwriter Alex Staropoli with assistance from co-producer Sascha Paeth. The album also features an array of guest narrators and character actors, including several recruits from the London theatre scene, Susannah York of the ''Superman'' film series and a return appearance by Christopher Lee, as the all-knowing ‘Wizard King’. The song "Il Canto del Vento", is the first song in the band's history that is not composed by Turilli or Staropoli, instead it was composed by Fabio Lione. The cover art is done by artist Jeff Easley, famous for his work on the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' line of products. Track listing Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
