Czech Music articles from April 2004

Czech Music archives from April 2004

Editorial.
April 1, 2004... Dear Readers, and friends of Czech music. The face of this issue is Rafel Kubelik, one of the greatest personalities of Czech music history. We present here three texts concerning different aspects of his life and work. We also look deeper...

Adam Michna of Otradovice and the Societas Incognitorum.(interview)
April 1, 2004... Adam Michna of Otradovice is beyond doubt the best known of Czech baroque composers, but his Latin liturgical pieces are rarely heard in concert programmes and on recordings. A recently released CD from the Brno Ensemble Societas Incognitorum...

Rafael Kubelik: we loved our giants.(history)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... The typical story of a Czech musician is the story of a poor boy who overcomes his disadvantaged background and wins through to world recognition. Rafael Kubelik, however, knew the meaning of celebrity and a life of chateau luxury from...

Rafael Kubelik: the soul cannot be manacled by politics.(history)
April 1, 2004... Musicians announce boycott Thirty-four of the world's leading musicians yesterday protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The protest read: "The occupation of the Republic by the five nations of...

Rafael Kubelik: homeland and world art.(history)
April 1, 2004... Rafael Kubelik most certainly isn't a "Swiss conductor of Czech origin", as the Grove Music Encyclopaedia describes him. He has always been a passionate and genuine patriot, and as the conductor Daniel Barenboim perceptively put it, "through...

Josef Adamik: composer in disguise.(history)
April 1, 2004... Few of the inhabitants of Valasske Klobouky have any inkling that they have a great Czech symphonic composer living among them. And something of the kind wouldn't even occur to members of our cultural community. After all, every beginner knows...

17th the exposition of new music.(history)
April 1, 2004... Taking a look at the programme of Expositions of past years, I was once again astounded by its almost chaotic diversity. Is it a case of no clear focus? lack of structure? Absent-mindedness? Or is it maybe like this: a festival that is...

How to make opera today.(event)
April 1, 2004... More than one contributor to Czech Music has noted that interest in opera remains high among contemporary composers, and this May has brought another three new operas to underline the point. The first two are the work of a group of students of...

Hudebni atlas hub. I. Hriby. Jak zpivaji houby.
April 1, 2004... Vaclav Halek: Hudebni atlas hub. I. Hriby. Jak zpivaji houby [A Musical Atlas of Fungi. 1. Boletus. How Mushrooms Sing.] Fontana, Olomouc, 2003. Can mushrooms emit sounds? Or excrete notes? Or even sing? In his unusually conceived book...

Musica nova 2003.
April 1, 2004... The 12th International Electro-Acoustic (EA) Music Competiton, Musica nova 2003, an event traditionally held in Prague under the patronage of the Czech Music Council with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the City of Prague, the Czech...

Czech Clarinet Quartet: Echoes from Stone.
April 1, 2004... Czech Clarinet Quartet: Echoes from Stone Jina vlna & Czech Clarinet Quartet [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Czech Clarinet Quartet was founded by students, today graduates of the Prague Music Academy HAMU. Over the few years of its...

Miloslav Kabelac: 1st August 1908-17th September 1979.(profiles)
April 1, 2004... A Small Portrait of Miloslav Kabelac (in the form of a dictionary entry) Miloslav Kabelac (1st of August 1908, Prague--17th September 1979, Prague, buried in Prague in the cemetery by the Strasnice Crematorium). Czech composer and...

Kabelac's message: the electro-acoustic composition E fontibus Bohemicis, op. 55.(profiles)
April 1, 2004... It was characteristic of Miloslav Kabelac the composer that he never shut the door on any impulse or inspiration that might potentially be fruitful for his music. He always, however, used such impulses and transformed them in a highly...

Pavel Haas: 21st June 1899-17th October 1944.(profiles)
April 1, 2004... The course of events gathered momentum. The tension of March days in Brno intensified thanks to German chauvinists so much that, when Brno was occupied, the Haas family eventually packed their luggage and set off for Prague even with their...