The ensemble includes:
Eric Pritchard (violin, Original Member of the Alexander String Quartet)
Jacques-Pierre Malan (cello, Artist in Residence, Embassy Series)
Read Gainsford (piano, faulty at Florida State University College of Music)

VELVET REVOLUTION: Historical Background
On November 17, 1989, a student march in Prague marked the 50th anniversary of International Students’ Day, the day a young student was killed by the Nazis during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. As the students moved towards the center of the city, the riot police brutally attacked them. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens found the courage to take to the streets to protest the suppression as well as the ruling communist regime itself. As the mass demonstration grew with each day and spread throughout the country, the stage for the dissident political movement Civic Forum was set. The communist regime fell and democracy was reinstated. Dissident, prisoner of conscience, and talented playwright Václav Havel became the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and later the first President of the Czech Republic. 

Event Details:

Date/Time: November 22, 2022, at 7 pm

Location: Embassy of the Czech Republic
3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008

Tickets are required: https://www.embassyseries.org/performances/november-17th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-communist-regime-save-the-date/