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BOHUSLAVMARTINU the International Martinů Circle BOHUSLAV MARTINU ° The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation The Bohuslav Martinů Institute The International Martinů Circle SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2007 / VOL. VII / NO.3 Concerts / Operas Martinů’s Escape from France List ofMartinů’s Works Part I. Interview with Jakub Hrůša Obituaries NEWS & EVENTS ts– Conten VOL. VII / NO.3 SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2007 e WelcomE f ConcertS —WE ARE MOVING MARTINŮ DAZZLES —NEW SECRETARY OF IMC AT THE SMETANA’S LITOMYŠL 2007 —INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL OPERA FESTIVAL • LUCIE BERNÁ r Reviews MARTINŮ AT THE PROMS 2007 • GREGORY TERIAN t ConcertS THREE CONCERTS — ONE CONDUCTOR • MARK TODD / PAVEL MATYS y Operas/ NewRecordinG TEARS OF THE KNIFE • ANTHONY BURTON u Operas/ HistoricaL Recordings FILM, FAIRYTALE, THEATRE Interv ew AND MUSIC g i • JAN KLUSÁK WITH… JAKUB HRŮŠA • LUCIE BERNÁ i HistorY j Obituaries/ ConferencE —THE ORGANIST AND COMPOSER BEDŘICH MARTINŮ’S ESCAPE JANÁČEK • JANA HŘEBÍKOVÁ FROM FRANCE —CZECH COMPOSER JINDŘICH FELD • ALEŠ BŘEZINA • ALEŠ BŘEZINA, LUCIE BERNÁ —GUY ERISMANN • PATRICE CHEVY —EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE BOHUSLAV a News/ Martinů RevisiteD 2009 MARTINŮ COMPLETE EDITION —US ARMY BAND AND CHORUS • MARK TODD —AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE l Events / ConferencE • GREGORY TERIAN 18TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL —REPORT FROM A RESIDENCY MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY IN ZURICH AT BÄRENREITER-VERLAG, KASSEL • ALEŠ BŘEZINA s SpeciaL Series ; New CDs & DVD LIST OF MARTINŮ’S WORKS STAGE WORKS AND FILM MUSIC / OPERAS y Bohuslav Martinů in Polička, 1918 © PBM me– b ] Welco THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER is published by the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation in collaboration MARTINŮ CIRCLE with the Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague Members receive the illustrated Bohuslav EDITORS Martinů Newsletter published three times Zoja Seyčková each year plus a special limited edition CD. Lucie Berná The IMC is supported by the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation and Bohuslav Martinů TRANSLATION Institute in Prague. Hilda Hearne PHOTOGRAPHS SUBSCRIPTION The Bohuslav Martinů Foundation’s and Institute’s 20 Euro/ 25 USD/ £14 UK archive, collections of the Municipal Museum – (includes 3 issues of the BM Newsletter Bohuslav Martinů Memorial in Polička and a non-commercial CD recording GRAPHIC DESIGN from the Bohuslav Martinů Days Festival in Prague). David E. Cígler New residence of the International Martinů Circle, Bohuslav Martinů Foundation and Institute 100 USD for companies PRINTING subscription includes 10 copies of each BOOM TISK, spol. s r.o. issue of the BM Newsletter and three NEWS — DEAR FRIENDS, WE ARE MOVING copies of the non-commercial CD PRICE From 1. 1. 2008 you will find us at a new address: recording from the BM Festival CZK 50 Bořanovická 1779/14, 182 00 Praha 8-Kobylisy, right by Kobylisy metro station (line C) The Bohuslav Martinů Newsletter Email addresses and telephone numbers will remain unchanged. Single copies of the Newsletter: is published three times a year. For this reason, the library of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute will be closed between 3 Euro/ 4 USD plus postage 1. 12. 2007 and 31. 1. 2008.Thank you for understanding. COVER PHOTO For further details about membership and for a free copy of the magazine contact Bohuslav and Charlotte Martinů in Polička,1935 Jana Honzíková ©PBM Dear members, we would like to inform you that Jindra Havlíčková is no longer IMC secretary.Yet she is still very busy, because she has a little child. Jana Honzíková has e-mail: [email protected] EDITORIAL OFFICE taken over her working duties. Jana worked in the Martinů Institute until 2003, when Bohuslav Martinů Institute, The Bohuslav Martinů Institute her son was born. She is a musicology graduate of Charles University in Prague. Náměstí Kinských 3, 150 00 Praha 5 Náměstí Kinských 3 From 1 January 2008: 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic Bořanovická 14, 182 00 Praha 8 tel.: +420 257 313 104, +420 257 320 076 or fax: +420 257 323 761 Gregory Terian – UK members only, e-mail: [email protected] tel.: 01625 523326 www.martinu.cz Mari Tokuda – members in Japan, ISSN 1214-6234 e-mail: [email protected] THE IMC CORDIALLY WELCOMES THE NEW MEMBERS • Justin Krawitz, Madison, USA • Kees van Es, Hong Kong • Ing. Josef Exner, Czech Republic • Gideon Flusser,Tel Aviv, Israel Jindra Havlíčková & her son Jana Honzíková • Éva Molnárová, Budapest, Hungary • Prof. Stephen Shipps, Ann Arbor, She edited the Martinů Newsletter and was responsible for other Martinů projects Michigan, USA (the new edition of Harry Halbreich’s Bohuslav Martinů – Werkverzeichnis und • PhDr. Jana Zapletalová, Olomouc, CZ THE PREVIOUS ISSUE Biografie; Bohuslav Martinů – Complete Critical Edition). She is looking forward to • Schott Music, Mainz working for the International Martinů Circle and hopes the society and all its members will be successful in spreading Martinů’s music to an even wider audience. BONUS – Those who recruit MUNICIPAL MUSEUM — a new member for Martinů will receive a bonus Martinů CD! BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE MEMORIAL IN POLIČKA SUBSCRIPTION 2008 OFFERS short-term exhibitions Please note: In December an IMC account will be opened at the bank Česká spořitelna. Since the dedicated to the life and work of VERY IMPORTANT Czech Republic is not in the euro zone, every payment from abroad is subject to B. Martinů, a guided tour to Martinů’s We kindly ask all members to send their a high charge. It would thus make financial sense if one member undertook to collect birthplace in the St. James church email addresses to [email protected]. all the subscriptions from his/her country.This person would gather the subscriptions tower and for registered researchers Some of them are out of date. And we in his/her personal account and then send them on to Prague. Owing to Gregory archive materials concerning Martinů. kindly ask members who do not have Terian and Mari Tokuda,such a system already functions with the British and Japan Further information available at an email address to create one if at all section of the IMC. www.muzeum.policka.net possible.This would simplify our contact We kindly request that members visiting Martinů Days in Prague pay their and www.policka-mesto.cz and save money on postage. subscriptions in cash. Thank you. BOHUSLAVMARTINŮNEWSLETTER3)2007 e s— MARTINŮ AT THE Review PROMS 2007 GREGORY TERIAN THE PERFORMANCE of Martinů’s Piano Concerto No. 4 Incantations, H. 358 given at the Proms on 26 August by Ivo Kahánek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek was a re- sounding success.There was an enthusiastic response from a near capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall. A nicely judged programme also included Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and Pokofiev’s 5th Symphony. INTERESTING REVIEWS (CHOICE) heard at the Proms: the London premiere PREPARED BY ZOJA SEYČKOVÁ was there in 1957 with compatriot Rudolf Firkušný as soloist. Ivo Kahánek gave …In an auspicious Proms debut, Ivo …Following this, Ivo Kahánek, the winner a thoroughly fine and convincing perform- Kahánek whipped up more of a storm as of the 2004 Prague Spring International ance. Martinů’s music is too infrequently soloist in Martinů’s Fourth Piano Concerto, Piano Competition, joined the orchestra heard in concerts despite the composer’s full of typical percussive brilliance and to play Martinů’s Incantation.The com- prolific output; this concerto is a delightful an astonishing stabbing solo part. Maybe poser, since his opera “Julietta”, first heard listen… Chris Caspell patriotism, or the yearning for the in 1938, had explored the idea of fantasy homeland that characterised Martinů’s and dreams in music; this came to a peak www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_ later works, accounted for Bělohlávek’s in the 1950s Fantaisies symphoniques prom_review.php?id=4848 really coming to life for this highly enter- (Symphony No. 6) and Incantation The critics commended the panache and taining work by an underrated twentieth (completed early in 1956). Incantation’s virtuosity of the soloist and the commit- century Czech master… Simon Thomas foundation is the two-note cell of a major ted support of the orchestra under Bělo- second first heard in the bird-song …Last night’s concerto – Martinů’s Fourth hlávek but the usual critical reservations http://www.musicomh.com/proms/2007- opening and is largely rhapsodic – another – was much rarer, but its restless inven- surfaced, notably from Michael Billington 56_0807.htm characteristic of Martinů’s later music… tion, pungency and virtuosity were given of the Guardian, concerning Martinů’s …In this performance the orchestral sharp focus by the pianist Ivo Kahánek, standing among 20th Century composers. sound was much better and the flighty and with keen, gritty involvement in the citrus Earlier in the week, during the course of fantastic strings were quite equalled by tang from the BBC Symphony Orchestra an interview on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune …In this, his second of four visits to the rounded, well-balanced winds and brass. under Jiří Bělohlávek… programme, Kahanek gave a scintillating Proms this year, Jiří Bělohlávek joined An interesting effect, the harp glissandos Geoffrey Norris performance in the studio of one of the forces with his countryman Ivo Kahánek using the back of the hand in the coda to Martinů Three Czech Dances. During the to present what might be described as the first movement, was well executed, www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml= concert interval on television, Bělohlávek a Czech hat-trick: Bohuslav Martinů’s adding a magical shimmering.This is only /arts/2007/08/27/bmprom227.xml was asked why the music of Martinů was Incantation, his fourth piano concerto… the third time that Incantation has been performed so infrequently in the concert hall. As far as the UK is concerned the answer is fairly obvious. Apart from the BBC, British concert promoters are IVO KAHÁNEK recordings for Supraphon, Cube Bohemia, reluctant to risk programming any work Czech Radio and Czech Television.
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