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Culture is a service to the public": Musician on proposed cuts to art in Czechia

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 11 a.m.

Roughly 150 musicians took part in a public concert at Prague\u2019s Main Railway Station on Sunday evening to raise awareness about the underfunding of culture in Czechia. The campaign, titled Let\u2019s Not Let Culture Go Silent, is backed by two dozen important cultural institutions, among them the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. To find out what they are striving for, I spoke with Jan Nykr\xfdn, a member of the Czech Union of Musicians, and started by asking him why they chose a concert as a form of protest: