Culture
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Big Apple recording with Pivec bears fruit for Vojtěch Dyk
For his latest LP Vojtěch Dyk travelled to New York to record with organist Ondřej Pivec and members of his group the Kennedy Administration.
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“It shows his deep roots” – Kundera gifts book collection to library in native Brno
The celebrated Czech-born author and essayist Milan Kundera has decided to donate his private library and archive to the Moravian Library in his native Brno.
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‘A soul full of clockworks’: Patrik Pařízek on the timeless appeal of mechanical, musical artistry
Patrik Pařízek is a specialist on historical clocks and mechancial music. So specialised, in fact, he struggled to find a university that would let him pursue a PhD in it.
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Czech musicians ask government to throw them a lifeline
Several hundred people gathered on Old Town Square on Monday to support the music industry which faces an uncertain future due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions.
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Inaccessible parts of Prague’s iconic Dancing House now open to public
Visitors to the iconic Dancing House in Prague, co-designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić in the early 1990s, can now see spaces normally inaccessible to the public.
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Juraj Mravec: Czech sound designer on The Crown and much more
Czech sound designer Juraj Mravec has worked on a long list of TV shows that includes such commercial and critical hits as The Crown, Veep, Black Mirror and Peaky Blinders.
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Czech singer Marek Ztracený living out his dream
Czech singer Marek Ztracený is on a winning streak. The small-town boy who came to Prague with one song has just released his sixth album and sold out Prague’s 02 Arena.
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Alfons Mucha at 160: Art Nouveau pioneer who left Paris for Prague to achieve the Slav Epic
Alfons Mucha, known for his Art Nouveau posters, was born 160 years ago. After finding fame in Paris, he turned his brush to the Slav Epic, a gift to the Czech nation.
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Epic Czechoslovak New Wave doc gets Blu-ray release
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s 448-minute documentary about the Czechoslovak New Wave, is out now on Blu-ray.
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New Havel biopic hits Czech screens
A new film about Václav Havel traces his path from dissident to Velvet Revolution leader, while also showing him as a flawed man.
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Live Films – Czech project born in lockdown adapts theatre plays for cinema audiences
When theatres and cinemas closed to help slow the spread of Covid-19, Viktor Tauš conceived of a new way to bring art to audiences, called Filmy Naživo (Live Films).
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Načeva sets pre-1989 underground poets to music on excellent new LP
The excellent new Načeva LP Zdivočelí koně (Wild Horses) sets to music texts written by Czech poets persecuted under the communist regime.
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