One on One Ales Brezina - from Martinu to Menzel to Milada Horakova
Today's guest for One on One is Ales Brezina, the head of the Bohuslav Martinu Institute in Prague. Mr. Brezina has spent the last twelve years compiling, annotating and publicizing the work of Martinu - perhaps the greatest Czech composer of the 20th century. But that's not all he's been up to. Mr. Brezina is a composer in his own right, providing the soundtrack for films such as 'Musime si pomahat' (or 'Divided We Fall') by Jan Hrebejk, and Jiri Menzel's 'Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho krale' ('I served the King of England'). As if that wasn't enough, Ales Brezina is just putting the finishing touches to his first opera, called 'Zitra se bude...' and based upon the show trial of Milada Horakova, sentenced to death by the Czechoslovak Communist government in 1950. When I caught up with Ales Brezina last week, I started by asking him whether his close work with Martinu's music had had any effect upon his own composition:
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