Czech Music articles from November 2002

Czech Music archives from November 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2002... Dear readers. I must immediately make two apologies for this issue. First and foremost for its late publication, the result of technical problems. The second apology relates to the interview with the Trio des Iscles in the last issue. The...

Not just play the notes.
November 1, 2002... The violinist Gabriela Demeterova is already one of the established stars of the Czech music scene. Apart from performing she is also involved in organising a festival devoted to Baroque music and she is the leader of the ensemble known as the...

Kunuk - an Eskimo message.
November 1, 2002... "At the bottom of the ocean lives the Mother of Sea Creatures, a mythical variant of the Great Goddess of Beasts, the source and womb of all life, on whose goodwill the very existence of the tribe depends. This means that the shaman must...

A festival in defiance of circumstance new music marathon 14th - 17th November 2002.
November 1, 2002... Kratochvil, Matej There is a certain group of people who ask the same question every year: Will there be a Marathon this year? Although the New Music Marathon has become a major event, giving us the opportunity to hear many important works...

Chrom-vanad universal and the heavenly organ the inconspicuous horologe of dreamers created by Jaroslav Koran has been here ten years.
November 1, 2002... "It all started in the Sumava Forest, first of all just for the reason that there were no musical instruments there", recounted Jaroslav Koran in 1993, and since then not much about the Horologe of Dreamers [Orloj snivcu] has changed....

Three economical operas.
November 1, 2002... While the major opera houses just keep ringing the changes on established repertoire and hardly ever giving contemporary composers a look in, new developments are taking their own paths. One such path could be seen on the 9th of December at the...

Forgotten Memories vol. 5 a 6. (CD Review).(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2002... Jim Durman Miroslav Posejpal at own expense, posejpal@mbox.dkm.cz 2002 The important improvisation duo series Forgotten Memories is recapitulating its activities of the Eighties. Unfortunately I have no idea whether Vols. 1-4 have already...

Pies Upiru [The Vampires' Ball]. (CD Review).(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2002... Nederlands Blazers Ensemble: Iva Bittova, Leos Janacek The album Pies Upiru [The Vampires Ball], originally released by the Dutch Group Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and now taken over by Indies, has reached us after a two-year time lag. The...

Theodor Anzelotti Leos Janacek. (CD Review).(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2002... Arco Diva The recording company Winter and Winter offers more proof that Leos Janacek is a composer now attracting international attention. The accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti has put together an album of Janacek piano pieces that he has...