Music, film, theater, painting, sculpture, photography and more in Prague, Central Europe and a few other places as well.
From DAFilms -
Event: Retrospective - Jørgen Leth
The living legend Jørgen Leth celebrates 75 years this year. This is a great occasion to look back through all his internationally acclaimed films. Stream FOR FREE from November 13 to 25.
A musical aside:Schoenberg, Byron and contemporary Czech music
On a performance of modern and contemporary composers and 170 kinds of derision, sarcasm, hatred, ridicule, contempt, condemnation, etc.
Photos - 1) Arnold Schoenberg (second from right) with his wife Gertrude, architech Adolf Loos and painter Oskar Kokoschka at Vienna’s American Bar, 2) Lord Byron, 3) The concert written about at Prague’s Grand Hall of Hlahol.
The international Theatre Festival of European Regions is underway in Hradec Králové, boasting work by and about Czech and international writers
Read more at the Czech Literature Portal
Photo - Alexander Grin’s Morgiana, photo by Petr Neubert
A poster for a recent production of Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis
Sonny Rollins in Prague
One of the greatest sax players of all time will perform in Prague on October 31 as part of Strings of Autumn.
More info on the concert here and for a great article at the New York Review of Books on why you should see Sonny Rollins in concert.
Another border: Memories
Having written about the Kafka/Schulz Borderland exhibition in Prague here is an example of the amazing work of Czech artist Pavlína Zemanová who, in Memories, explored the postwar German/Bohemian border.
The rest of the project can be seen here. Memories received Honorable Mention at the 2012 winners of Art Books Wanted awards.
There was a lot of other great work, and five Czech graphic artists among the winners listed at the Czech Literature Portal.
Photo - Buttons (Knofliky) by Pavlína Zemanová
Crepuscular: the ruins of modern times
Romanian photographer Serban Bonciocat’s images of industrial ruins give Czechs a chance to look anew at their own industrial past
Viktor Ullmann: Musical triumph out of tragedy
Czech composer Viktor Ullmann was killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz; new performances give his music a new and vibrant life
