Earthly Dust and Divine Breath
**Songs and Arias Inspired by Biblical Stories.** During forty weeks of 2025, Michal Horáček wrote poems conceived as monologues and dialogues of various biblical figures. Each of them had rhythm, rhyme, and a refrain, and thus naturally invited musical setting. Leading figures from both rock and classical music then took up his challenge, including Markéta Irglová, Ivo Viktorin, Lukáš Sommer, Michal Novinski, Jan Kučera, and many others. The songs were gradually recorded by artists such as Iva Bittová, Xavier Baumaxa, Katarína Koščová, Robert Křesťan, Jiří Pavlica, Vojtěch Pelka (countertenor), Zuzana Marková (soprano), and Roman Janál (baritone). In this way, an extensive and stylistically diverse musical cycle was created — and is still continuing to grow.