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...textbook on Russian grammar* barely touched on the "inseparable friendship" of Czechs for their protectors in the U.S.S.R., barely mentioned the "immense love of Czechoslovak peoples for the great Stalin." The books on geography were guilty of "objectivity," failed to show "the real face of capitalism-the misery and oppression of the working class." The writers of the history textbooks did not even seem to know when the "New Era" began (i.e., with the Russian Revolution). And nowhere was there anywhere near enough attention paid to the life & works of Joseph Stalin or of his faithful servant, Czech President Klement...
...Latest Czech Communist invention: "concentration monasteries." Last week Frankfurt's Neue Zeitung reported that obstinate priests who refuse to bow before the hammer & sickle are being "re-educated" in eight government-run camps. Special police are detailed to guard the priests. Discipline is harsh and living conditions bad. The priests are allowed to celebrate Mass, however. Most prominent prisoner: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, now confined to the high-walled, isolated Nova Rise monastery, 20 miles from the Austrian border...
...Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a slapstick one-act opera in 1937 called Comedy on the Bridge. It was a satire on war, and everybody had a good time when they heard the Prague radio premiere that year. Says Expatriate Martinu, sad-eyed, 60, and full of memories of Munich and its aftermath: "Six months later, I could not have written...
...Opera Workshop of Manhattan's Mannes School of Music honored Martinu, its most distinguished faculty member, with two bang-up performances -the first in the U.S.-of his old one-acter. Most startled with its success was Martinu himself, who had always considered the work purely a Czech chuckle. His one admonition to the Workshop group was: "Keep it a comedy." A cast of eight expert singers, accompanied by a chamber orchestra, played the well-scored opera as a near-burlesque...
...commissions, makes most of his money teaching a weekly composition class at Mannes, another at Princeton. Only his last few U.S. works bring royalties, and they are tiny. Few recordings of his music are available here. Most of his manuscripts are still in Czechoslovakia, and irretrievable. So are his Czech royalties...