Czech Music articles from October 2004

Czech Music archives from October 2004

Editorial.
October 1, 2004... Dear readers, My deepest musical impression lately? You approach a frozen fishpond (obviously it could also be a lake, or a river), and if the ice is still relatively thin and the ice surface not covered in snow (which is quite possible in...

Create--and do what you will.(interview)(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... Jan Klusak long ago won himself a firm place among the classics of Czech music of the later 20th Century. He is a remarkable man in many respects. As a musician he is a relatively unique case of a "pure" composer, who devotes himself only to...

E. F. Burian: Sweep the Stage!(portrait)
October 1, 2004... "E. F. Burian (11th June 1904-9th August 1959) was what you might call a 'total' artist. Composer, writer, actor, singer, theatre and film director, theoretician, politician, bon vivant, prisoner, communist in uniform. He was one of the first...

Vitezslav Novak: 5th December 1870-18th July 1949.(profiles)
October 1, 2004... Life and Work Following the founding generation of composers of new Czech music (Bedrich Smetana, 1824-1884; Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904) a group of other important composers came to the fore in the last decade of the 19th century and the...

Vitezslav Novak: 5th December 1870-18th July 1949.(profiles)
October 1, 2004... Life and Work Following the founding generation of composers of new Czech music (Bedrich Smetana, 1824-1884; Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904) a group of other important composers came to the fore in the last decade of the 19th century and the...

Krystof Harant of Polzice and Bezdruzice and Pecka: 1564-21st June 1621.(profiles)
October 1, 2004... Krystof Harant of Polzice and Bezdruzice and Pecka (1564-21st June 1621) remains to this day one of the best-known figures of the Bohemian Renaissance. A Czech aristocrat, he become famous in his own time for many actions that expressed his...

E. F. Burian: composer.(portrait)
October 1, 2004... Although Burian grew up in a family that was hugely and indeed famously musical, he took a relatively long time to decide on systematic musical studies. Towards the end of the 1st World War the boy went through a stormy, disturbed period, and...

E. F. Burian and faith.(portrait)
October 1, 2004... When several events were held to mark the E. F. Burian anniversary, I was puzzled by the way the living witnesses of his era sometimes maintained a strange silence, or gave ambiguous answers and contradictory accounts, while the speakers who...

A few minutes with an oboist.(interview)
October 1, 2004... The oboist Vilem Veverka (1978) is emerging as one of the most striking performers of the coming generation. He is all the more interesting as a musician for the fact that he systematically devotes much of his energies to the expert performance...