Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:16 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czech-musical-avant-garde-twenties-celebrated-pragues-archa-theatre-8087120© 2026 Radio Prague International A woman sighs, moans, and cries out with delight - this isn't the soundtrack from a late-night movie, but one of the works in a classical music concert. It's a composition from 1919 by one of the masters of the inter-war avant-garde in Czechoslovakia, Erwin Schulhoff, and it's called the Erotic Sonata, a solo for what the composer described as a "mother-trumpet" - in fact a single female voice, a work with a fascinating score of scribbles, lines and dots. It was one of many works performed on Tuesday night at the Archa Theatre, as part of the Prague Spring International Music Festival. David Vaughan was there. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/ebony_band1.jpg?timestamp=1590294844 https://english.radio.cz/czech-musical-avant-garde-twenties-celebrated-pragues-archa-theatre-8087120 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9