Czech Music articles from March 2003

Czech Music archives from March 2003

Opera is our treasure an interview with Jiri Nekvasil.(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Jiri Nekvasil now has just half a season behind him as head of the National Theatre Opera. In this short space of time he has already staged several productions of recent operas there, showing continuity with his earlier approach at the Prague...

Austrian Military Music of the 19th century and Olomouc.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Austrian Military Music of the 19th Century and Olomouc At the end of 2002 the Palacky University in Olomouc published a book entitled Austrian Military Music of the 19th Century and Olomouc. It is the first monography in Czech musicological...

The quiet music of Alois Pinos.(Interview)(Biography)
March 1, 2003... Alois S. Pinos (*1925) is a professor at the Music Faculty of the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and one of the key figures in Czech music since 1960, both in composition and theory, and in teaching. The defining features of his...

Milan Knizak the musican.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
March 1, 2003... Until recently only a small circle of the Czech public had much idea of the musical . activities of Milan Knizak, best known as controversial artist, bombastic personality and director of the National Gallery. Despite the large number of copies...

All linked by common thread an interview with Vladimir Vaclavek.(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Vladimir Vaclavek is a musician who needs no introduction in the Czech Republic. It is enough just to mention the names of the groups in which he has been involved--Dunaj, E, Rale, Klar, Domaci lekar, Cikori, and VRM and it is clear that we are...

Graham Melville-Mason at seventy.(Brief Article)(Biography)
March 1, 2003... March 2003 sees the 70th birthday of Graham Melville-Mason, President of the Dvorak Society in London and a major promoter of Czech music in Great Britain. He studied in Edinburgh, where he also devoted himself to practical...

Tilia.(Arco Diva)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2003... Petr Vyroubal, Jaroslav Krcek, Otmar Macha Arco Diva The inclusion of the songs Nepij, Jano at the beginning of this CD is a mistake that may well put off listeners who would otherwise find the rest of the album interesting. It is a CD...

The Human Tragicomedy.(Opera Review)
March 1, 2003... Milos Stedron On the 23rd of March 2003 a new opera was presented in Prague as part of the cycle "Banging on the Iron Curtain", It had little of the advance publicity, and met with little of the reaction in the media that an event such as...