Czech Music articles from July 2002

Czech Music archives from July 2002

Editorial.
July 1, 2002... Dear readers, We apologise far the delay in getting this new issue of the magazine out to you. As you may have guessed, the reason was the floods that recently hit the Czech Republic. Our editorial office and our graphic studio are both in...

Michal Trnka and the Tuning Metronomes.
July 1, 2002... Contemporary music ensembles are usually founded by composers and it is hardly a surprise that one of their motives should be the desire to hear their own latest pieces performed live. The composers and performers of the Tuning Metronomes,...

Metamorphoses of a bar signer: an interview with Ester Kocickova.(Interview)
July 1, 2002... When Ester Kocickova was a presenter at the orginal Limonadovy joe [Lemonade joe] radio station only a small circle of fans knew her name but as soon as she appeared on television interview followed interview Most of them have hinged on whether...

Forfest 2002 or Czech contemporary music in the context of an international festival.
July 1, 2002... FORFEST, the thirteenth annual international festival of contemporary music and art with a spiritual focus took place this year on the 22nd - 30th of June in Kromeriz. FORFEST is an annual festival of contemporary music and art which this...

Boskovice 2002.
July 1, 2002... Boskovice 2002 11th - 14th of July organised by Unijazz.. Spread out over four days, if the ninth annual festival to save and restore the Boskovice Jewish Quarter (one of the most important in Moravia) promised no guaranteed crowd puller,...

Janacek in the hands of the Editio Janacek.
July 1, 2002... Critical publication of Janacek's work has a relatively long history. It dates back to an initiative from the department of musicology in Brno, headed by Prof. Dr. Jiri Vyslouzil, Dr.Sc. and the music publishers SUPRAPHON Prague. After a series...

Between classic and jazz.
July 1, 2002... Epoque Quartet Radioservis 2002 Total Time: 58:52 This new recording released under the Czech Radio label presents the broad repertory spectrum of a young string quartet founded at the beginning of 1999. The ensemble consists...

Echoes from long ago.
July 1, 2002... Matej Kratochvil Ensemble Martinu Cesky rozhlas [Czech Radio/Triga Total Time: 76:12 This recording has many links with its predecessor. For one thing, the performers are relatively young, since while the ensemble was founded...

Prague string quartets.
July 1, 2002... Jupiter Quartet Arco Diva ITotal time: 63:40 This CD is actually a profile recording of the Quattro group of composers. These are four Czech composers (only three are still alive today), who despite differences of generation found...