Marek Šlechta - hudební skladatel, básník a aktivista - pamětníkem na serveru Paměť národa
Hudba, poezie a lidská práva
Oratorium Kázání na hoře
Hudba, poezie a lidská práva (reserve)
Music, Poetry and Human Rights
Není náhoda / No coincidence
Plakát FESTIVAL VDECNOSTI
In case of your intrest in a concert or audio CD, scores or some kind of co-operation, please, use the e-mail: marek.slechta@seznam.cz
1. Oratorio Sermon on the Mount
- multi-genre oratorio 63´39 "
Texts from the 5th, 6th and 7th chapters of Matthew's gospel, the most famous and controversial sermon of Jesus, set to music, urging the purest, simple, humble, yet dignified, true attitude of life, ashamed of its directness and openness. The oratorio can be performed in the chamber form (piano, singing, organ interludes), acapella (SATB), rock (classical rock group) or folk singer (singing with guitar).
Video samples of chamber version can be seen here.
Samples of songs and compositions of the studio recording of the chamber version can be seen here.
2. Biblical Psalms:
(in vocal and piano arrangements)
Musical Biblical Psalms No:
01, 04, 05, 08, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19,
80, 88, 90, 91, 93, 97, 100, 103, 107, 108,
111, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124,
... other Biblical Psalms are gradually set to music.
You can receive the appropriate score and sound sample in MIDI or MP3 on request.
3. Let´s Go!
www.lets-go.eu - vocal group 2012 - now, Prague
Acappella group focused on authentic performance of American spirituals in their grandeur and originality. Songs full of emotions sung before and after difficult life experiences, welcoming winning tone even after loses and waiting. Encouragement for individuals, families and communities.
4. Geshem
- vocal ensemble 2000 - 2013, Prague, www.geshem.cz. The acappella ensemble who sang without instruments Taizé songs, American spirituals and Hebrew songs. Some people are given more vocal art, some less, but if we want, together it sounds great to us.
5. Cáde - Chet
- music group 1985 - 1990, Ostrava. A musical group from the Christian community of Saturday day in Ostrava, focusing on Christian songs, later especially songs from Taizé and American spirituals. A group of active people who participated in the launch of the project Multi-genre Oratorio Sermon on the Mountain. Among the prominent people who helped to co-produce are, in particular, Andrzej Bujok, Daniel Bujok (†), Lidia Bondrova, Lenka Hrubá, Irena Antošová and Martin Krynský.
6. Songbooks:
Songbook of American Spirituals Acappella (akapela SATB in English). More information here.
Songbook: Folk songs in a cappella + CD
40 folk songs adapted for 4 SATB bands or choirs.
Other titles published by the e-noty in the Choral Library as a separate edition:
Folk songs (12 songs in SATB arrangement separately)
Hatikva, Shema Yisrael (Hebrew) - (SATB songs separately)
Leave my tears - SATB's lament over Holocaust victims
Remember Auschwitz - SATB's lament over Holocaust victims
Stars of heaven - SATB's lament over Holocaust victims
Songbook: Spirituals of Hope
50 spirituals with Czech lyrics, notes and chord marks for guitar. More information here.
7. Dancing organ
The organ music is noble, impressive, majestic, reflects the inner movement and inspires humility and inner joy. In the series of four dozen organ tracks I offer to you (sheet music in PDF, sound sample: MIDI or MP3), most of them are rhythmic completely or in a substantial part of the composition, which inspires the idea of ​​adding a solo organ with ballet or dance choreography.
I f you are interested in that music, send me your request and I would provide you some samples in MP3 or/and MIDI and scores. Write to marek.slechta@seznam.cz
8. Folk songs
Marek Šlechta: Vektor naděje (music, text, guitar, singing)
12 folk songs from eihghties of the last century at audio CD, samples find here. Published as the enclosure of the poetry collection Křižovatky mezi řádky (©2017)
If you like to taste my verses, please, go to the Czech version of thuis page.
Respect for life and remembering victims of violence:
Happening PAMATUJ! REMEMBER!
It commemorates the victims of the largest mass murder in the history of the Czech Republic, which was forgotten during the 40 years of communism in our country. "In 1944, in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp - Birkenau in three days (8.3 and 11.7 and 12.7.) more than 10,000 men, women, children and old people were murdedred as guilty of being born as Jews. From the year 2013 in commemoration of this tragedy on the anniversary, March 8, hundreds of singers in the Czech Republic sing three of the songs the prisoners sang when they were taken to the gas chambers: Hatikva (then a folk song, today the Anthem of the State of Israel), Shema Yisrael (the confession of faith) and Kde domov můj (the Czech national anthem).
Videos from happening REMEMBER! at dozens of locations in the Czech Republic since 2013, they are available on the network and can be an inspiration for the content of commemoration meetings for new people.
There has never been a single day without wars in the history of mankind; The Peace One Day campaign brings together people who want to express their interest in peace in any understandable and acceptable way and helps to create a network of organizations that want to participate in this process. At the initiative of the founder Jeremy Gilley, a British documentary filmmaker, the United Nations unanimously established September 21 as the first day of the global ceasfire and non-violence - the World Peace Day. We would like to inspire the Czech public to participate in this campaign, which can take thousands of different forms (see www.peaceoneday.org). If you have any questions or interest in any of the music or poetic groups mentioned on this site that could contribute to the atmosphere of peace, understanding and sharing on your organized Peace Day, please feel free to contact us for support.