Czech Music articles from May 2002

Czech Music archives from May 2002

Lone Knight: Interview with Marek Kopelent.(Interview)
May 1, 2002... His own generation of composers sees him as a radical, while the young generation regard many of his views as conservative. In this country he has been a lonely long-distance-runner, always outside the mainstream, but he has fitted wonderfully...

Czech-lithuanian music contacts in the 19th and 20th centuries.
May 1, 2002... Music is one of several areas that deserve a chapter to them selves in thehistory of Czech-lithuanian relations. These relations go back deep into history At random we might mention the mission of St. Voitech to Pagao prussia the deliberate...

Exposition of new music 2002.
May 1, 2002... The theme of this year's Brno Exposition of New Music Festival was "Roots in rock". The programme did not lie, since most of the music presented at the 15th ENM really did have roots in rock: pregnant rhythm, improvisation, and...

Interview with Jaroslav Stastny.(Interview)
May 1, 2002... With Jaroslav Stastny, programme director of the exposition of new music, on programe design, alternative, music, professional and other interesting matters... I think the programme design of this year's Exposition of New Music is pretty...

Breath, pulse, light.(choreography and dance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Out of the womb of HAMU [Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague], which is not exactly a synonym for progressive ideas and openness, comes the second remarkable project in six months! Both projects emerged "from below", on...

Two premieres or unchristened kids.
May 1, 2002... Both concerts were advertised as premieres of new concert programmes linked to the release of an album on the market (in both cases Guerilla Records), but neither has been christened yet. Looking on the Internet pages of both groups I found no...

Editions of Erwin Schulhoff.
May 1, 2002... Relationships between composers and publishers tend to be fickle. Composers -- or most of them -- pursue their musical aims with a considerable does of idealism, while publishers are often coarse materialists whose highest goal is profit. It's...

Invasion on the glass meadow.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... "Electronic Invasion 2002" This year the Czech section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISOM) -- after several years of more or less passive existence -- made inroads into Czech contemporary music. The first action of...

Boo.
May 1, 2002... Listen Indies Records 2002 Total Time: 39:50 The Brno-Austrian quartet has created this second album in a tranquil spirit evidently meant as a contrast to the sound of the eponymous debut CD and also as a way of forestalling continuous...

Extempore.
May 1, 2002... Velkomesto [Metropolis] Black Point Music 2001 Total Time: 2 CD, 90 min Black Point is working hard on its archive series: the end of 20D1 saw the release of a concert recording of Extempore's Metropolis programme. One recording of...