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Josef Hiršal & Bohumila Grögerová: JOB-BOJ (1968) Setiny: exhibition of Bohumila Grögerová’s poetry at Hvězda, Prague (17. 6. – 7. 11. 2021)
Johann Strauss: Unter Donner und Blitz
Listening to the Czech Philharmonic’s New Year's Gala Concert reminded me of my favourite light-hearted piece. Manfred Honeck conducted it quite similarly to this version from Kleiber, which is my favourite.
Bohumil Hrabal: Bambini di Praga 1947
“there are stains which cannot be cleaned without disrupting the structure of the fabric”
This quote demonstrates Hrabal’s art of aestheticization of banal phrases. The phrase is a a quote from an advertisement for a laundry detergent, but he gives it a completely different context and revives latent meanings in it, thus allowing it to come alive.
Daniel Pitín: Soumrak v lese | Twilight in the Forest Inkorporace: exhibition in Vyšehrad Gallery, Prague (2. 9. - 3. 10. 2021)