Recently added articles from Czech Music:
Milos Stedron answers Michael Beckerman.(polemic)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In the last number of the magazine Michael Beckerman responded to my marginalia (a total of 140 words) on his book Janacek as Theorist in my review of Tyrrell's monograph on Janacek (CMQ 2/2008) with a polemic article of 1,680 words. I was not actually writing a review of his book, and so ...
Music competitions in the Czech Republic.(events)(Calendar)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Music competitions are probably as old as music itself. In the tales of ancient Greece the satyr Marsyas competes with the god Apollo, musical ...
Roman Patocka: music is as natural for me as breathing.(Interview)
Apr 01, 2009; ... For some time now Czech music critics have had the pleasure of being able to say that we have several young violinists of both sexes who have a good chance of making an international career. One of them is the Jihlava-born Roman Patocka (b. 1981), a laureate of the Prague Spring ...
Peter Vrabel: I don't have to have new faces around me all the time.(Interview)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most of the work of Peter Vrabel, a Slovak conductor living in Prague, is connected with the Berg Orchestra. This is why in our interview we concentrated on themes to do with this orchestra--its focus on programmes including both top international and ...
Czech Vienna: the music culture of the Czech minority in Vienna 1840-1918.(history)(Vienna, Austria)
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The phrase "Czech music" or "Czech music culture" is rightly associated first and foremost with music written by composers on the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Yet we need to remember that it has a wider ...