Czech Music articles from May 2003

Czech Music archives from May 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... It is summer and we are leaving the cities and looking for quiet places. In our age, which is dominated by machines, also many artists look their way back to the roots. This year's Exposition of New Music in Brno has as its title "Echoes of the...

Wading in the stream and strolling in the meadows: interview with Krystof Maratka.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Only a few Czech composers have managed to make a successful career in France. The most obvious examples are Antonin Rejcha and Bohuslav Martinu, but recently there has been ever more talk of a young Czech composer who has been living in Paris...

Echoes of nature--the 15th exposition of new music 2003.
May 1, 2003... "For me personally the task since 1993 has been to create awareness of contemporary serious music in world context." "Only quixotic aims are worth anything." I have rather mischievously taken these two statements from an interview with...

"Some music assumes that the performer will become its joint creator": interview with Kamil Dolezal.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... The clarinet is an instrument with huge possibilities, since it is what is called "flexible" and usable in almost any kind of chamber ensemble. In terms of sound it never sticks out in a way that upsets the integrity of the whole, but...

Art nouveau: parallels in the piano music of: V. Novak, J. Suk and M. K. Ciurlionis.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... As the 19th century gave way to the 20th century European music experienced a multiple branching of aesthetic and intellectual principles and values that in many ways reflected various kinds of social change. In simplified terms, it is usual to...

The prayers and czardas of: Agnes Kutas.
May 1, 2003... The end of 1st year turned the spotlight on three Czech women singers (Or more precisely three women singers living in Czechia"), who seek and find inspiration in folk musik. Iva Bittova out-shone the acclaimed Netherlands blazers ensemble, and...

Ruzena Dostalova--Ales Brezina: recke pasije. Osud jedne opery (korespondence Nikose Kazantzakise s Bohuslavem Martinu) [the greek passion. The fate of one opera (the correspondence of Nikos Kazantzakis with Bohuslav Martinu)]: Prague, Set Out Press 2003.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... This new book is designed for all admirers of Bohuslav Mortinu or the writer Nikos Kazantzakis. Bohuslav Martini's last opera, The Greek Passion is a work that was long and difficult in the making. One proof of the obstacles is the fact that...

Maraca: longe.(Sound Recording Review)
May 1, 2003... NM Code The Zlin band Maraca has until now been a rather secret affair. Of course, there are more and more bands mixing what are (for Central Europeans) in some way exotic influences with jazz, rock, or electronic. Since the results aren't...

Raduza: pri me stuj [stand by me].(Sound Recording Review)
May 1, 2003... Indies It's impossible not to ask the obvious question with this singer. Her previous album (Andelove z nebe [Angels from Heaven], viz Czech Music 6/2001) was highly played, and her concert performances have only increased her reputation....

Posledni veci andela [last things of an angel].(Sound Recording Review)
May 1, 2003... Michal Koran NM Code Koran's latest album is a choice of the music for a stage play by Milos Karasek, Peron (The search for Identity) and was recorded by the Richter Band in its current line-up (Pavel Richter, Michal Koran, Bharata...