Culture
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Film composer Ales Brezina - on Martinu, Menzel, and silence
Jiri Menzel's new film I Served the King of England, an adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's classic novel of the same name, is proving hugely successful among Czech filmgoers…
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Czech Museum of Music to display "Mozart" piano
Yesterday we reported on a shortage of tone wood which has for centuries been harvested in South Bohemia to make pianos that even Mozart himself played in Vienna. As a…
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Brno capitulates in dispute over Villa Tugendhat
The city of Brno has relented. Brno's city council yesterday approved a plan to return the Villa Tugendhat, a UNESCO landmark, to the children of the original owners. The…
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Varhan Orchestrovic Bauer - composer of film score for "Goya's Ghosts"
The unusually named Varhan Orchestrovic Bauer (varhany means pipe organ in Czech, while Orchestrovic is derived from the word orchestra) is a well-known Czech conductor…
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Natalie Kocabova - blood, gore and Baptist summer camps
Although she is still only 22, Natalie Kocabova already has two albums to her name as a singer, two collections of poetry and two published works of prose. She also has a…
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Rapper Gipsy introduces traditional music on new album
Romano Hiphop is the title of the latest CD by the Czech Romany rap artist Gipsy. The album is actually released under the name Gipsy.cz, because this time he has…
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Photographer Jan Saudek gets own permanent gallery in Prague
The world famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek has just got his own permanent gallery near Prague's Old Town Square. It features over 100 works by the photographer, who is…
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Encore: Oldrich Korte and one of the great piano sonatas of the 20th century
Even if he had never written another work in his life, the Czech composer Oldrich Korte would deserve immortality for his Sonata for Piano. The piece was composed between…
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Annual festival gives regional theatres chance to shine in capital
This Sunday the cream of the country's regional theatres will be enjoying the limelight at a gala evening and awards ceremony at Prague's Karlin Musical Theatre. It will…
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Exhibition & detailed "guidebook" highlight Cubist architecture
The Czech Republic has many claims to fame but one of its greatest and most curious regarding the arts is the country's unique history of Cubist architecture, celebrated…
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The Prague Post Playwriting Contest - fostering English-language drama in Prague
With a large English-speaking community, it's perhaps surprising that Prague does not have an English-language theatre scene like those that can be found in other major…
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Petra Hulova: a rising star of the young generation of Czech writers
This edition of Czech Books comes from a café just off the Old Town Square, where I have come to talk to a novelist who has become a phenomenon of the Czech literary scene…
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