Topic Archive Culture
Zdeněk Liška - the most prolific Czech film score composer
This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to the late Czech film-score
composer Zdeněk Liška who was recently rewarded posthumously by the
Culture Ministry for his outstanding contribution to Czech cinema. An
extremely prolific composer, between the 1950s and 1980s Zdeněk Liška
wrote the scores to some 500 feature films, television series and
documentaries. More
The Polemics of Miloš Jiránek on view at National Gallery
This Thursday saw the opening of a new exhibition at the National
Gallery’s Kinský Palace Stables Gallery marking 100 years since the
death of post-impressionist painter, man-of-letters and critic Miloš
Jiránek, who contributed strongly to the Czech “National Awakening” at
the end of the 19th century. Although he died at the age of just 35,
Jiránek was a most influential figure whose paintings, as well as written
works, have seen renewed appreciation. The show, entitled The Polemics of
Miloš Jiránek, features oils, water colours, drawings, and woodcut prints
– many of the images pristine, featuring earthy hues and soft light.
It’s a small show but well-worth seeing. More
Josef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs
from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy
tales and children’s readers as he is for his landscapes, which each
Christmas are printed thousands of times over on the front of the
nation’s Christmas cards. Lada was also the artist who gave the grinning,
rotund Good Soldier Švejk his form. More
Sunday Music Show
In this edition of Sunday Music Show, Peter Smith plays hits from chart
topping Czech artists including 4Life and Kristof. There is also a chance
to hear the vocal talents of Helena Vondrackova's less famous niece, Lucie. More
Barrandov Studios
In this month’s show we will be talking a look behind the hallowed grey
facade of one of the Czech Republic’s most famous institutions –
Barrandov Studios, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary. More
Robert Fulghum’s tango for one in Prague
The best-selling American writer Robert Fulghum has such an enthusiastic
following in the Czech Republic that he has published several of his books
here in Czech translation before they have even appeared at home. That
includes his latest book, “If You Love Me Still, Will You Love Me
Moving?” Its subtitle “Tales from the Century Ballroom” hints at its
theme – that most passionate of ballroom dances, tango. Last week Robert
Fulghum was in Prague to promote the book, and found time to pay a visit to
the radio. David Vaughan met him. More
Music of the First Republic
The independence of Czechoslovakia, which we celebrate each October 28, was
the result of a movement of many decades, and when at least it came, in
1918, after four hard years of war, the joy must have been very palpable.
There are so few alive today who can remember that period, but it is
certainly not lost to us, and one of the ways we can relive it is through
the music of the day.
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Author Daniela Hodrová and translator Martin Hilský to receive top Czech literary awards
In a tradition going back to 1920, on the eve of October 28, marking the
birth of Czechoslovak independence, the Czech Culture Ministry grants
annual State Awards to outstanding Czech authors and translators. This
year’s recipients are author and literary scholar Daniela Hodrová and
translator and university professor Martin Hilský who recently completed
his translation of the entire work by William Shakespeare. More
Two voices
This week’s Sunday music show is devoted to a refreshing female duo
called Two Voices. At first glance they have little in common - Jana
Rychterova is a classic chanson singer, who writes her own lyrics and
accompanies herself on the guitar while mezzo-soprano Edita Adlerova
studied opera. What brought them together is a sense of humour and a
natural talent to entertain the crowd. More
Kolín - more than just a railway junction
Surrounded by railway sidings and industrial estates, it's easy to get the
impression that Kolín is simply a town travellers pass through on the way
from the Czech capital to the nearby tourist-friendly Kutná Hora.
Nevertheless, anyone who gets off the train in Kolín and takes the trouble
to walk the short distance past the factories and business parks to the
city centre will find that it is a place worth visiting. More
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