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...final work. Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." Husa, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, borrows whoel motifs from both Bartok and Holst, but draws most heavily on an old Czech song which Smetana, the fervently nationalistic 19th century Czech composer, dramatized in his massive Ma Vlast. Clear playing brought out the wide-ranging passions which inspired the work, both the mournful and the chauvinistic...
...clapping stolidly - not cheering, just beating their hands together as if they would never stop. The Germans looked baffled and angry. Finally, Conductor Vaclav Talich held up the score, kissed it and, with an expansive gesture, presented it to the audience. It was Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country}, a cycle of symphonic poems breathing Czech patriotism; its last section tells of a glorious Czech liberation...
...camel, is picked up as by zhar ptitsa, the legendary firebird, and deposited for some revolutionary anniversary on this field. He knows with a naked realism sometimes denied to Europeans, with their insulating layers of sophistication, that he is in physical contact with a new magnitude of power -vlast, sovyetskaya vlast: Soviet power...
...Bookstores exuberantly displayed volumes banned by the Germans. Every day a thousand news-hungry people trooped to the U.S. Information Service office, hoping to find American papers and magazines. At night people gathered before the charred City Hall to hear a band play Smetana's stirring Ma Vlast-My Country...
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