Czech Music articles from July 2003

Czech Music archives from July 2003

There are many things to finish: interview with Chistopher Hogwood.(Interview)
July 1, 2003... After an interval of a year the famous English conductor Christopher Hogwood arrived in Prague once again. Over a few days here he recorded a CD of Bohuslav Martinu's ballets of 1927 with the Czech Philharmonic for Supraphon. It was just one of...

Spiritual art at the Forfest.
July 1, 2003... The fourteenth annual Forfest, a festival of contemporary art with a spiritual focus, took place in the week from the 21st to the 29th of June this year in Kromeriz. As you might expect from the name, it's the town of Zlin that is the...

Forfest puts the emphasis on the individual testimony of the composer.
July 1, 2003... Zdenka and Viclav Vaculovic are the husband and wife team that has headed the Forfest's organisational committee since the festival's birth fourteen years ago. The future paths that might be taken not just by the Forfest but by contemporary...

Agon on the road from music, sweet music to discreet music.
July 1, 2003... This year the Agon Orchestra is celebrating its twentieth anniversary--or not, depending on how you look at it. If you were being pedantic, you could point out that the group only started to perform under the name Agon in January eighteen years...

De constructing myths or how to organise a concert.
July 1, 2003... Contemporary serious music (the phrase has not yet lost all meaning) is written for a very specific, narrow public that is becoming ever more specific and narrow as time goes by. This is reflected in the fact that its concert presentations ever...

Boskovice--exhaustion?
July 1, 2003... When the Boskovice Festival began eleven years ago, its mission was clear: to draw the attention of the public to the town's Jewish quarter and to help towards its restoration. It was not so much a question of direct financial gain. What the...