Jiří Kopecký Boeken

The “Different Hearing” programme is primarily focused on children and young people ages 5 to 18, and was tried out on a wide spectrum of students from primary schools through special needs schools to music schools. At present it is used in tandem with “standard” school music education, with the consequent aim of, in a complementary manner, appending composition to existing music lessons in primary and secondary schools. For this reason, the form of the several-day courses are so designed as to allow their employment by faculty of education and tertiary performing arts school students alike, in other words our future teachers and composers. We hope to expand in future to encompass current pedagogues through life-long learning programmes. The programme seeks to achieve three parallel primary goals, known as the 3Cs. The first is the discovery, development and stimulation of creativity in children, the second supporting powers of concentration in the field of sound, composition and audience, and the third is strengthening communicative capabilities and social behaviour in the collective. A secondary aim is an audio-visual transition linking sonic presentations to visual counterparts – graphic displays of sound or similar simple improvisational and compositional activities.

A detailed history of opera in the Moravian city of Olomouc, from the classical period to the early 20th century. The authors examine the business of opera, the repertoire, staging and singers, and more

An examination of Czech music, drawing attention to some unjustly forgotten treasures, in the two decades before the First World War.

Die Autoren legen eine Fallstudie zur Institution des städtischen deutschsprachigen Musiktheaters am Beispiel Olmütz vor (1770–1920). Diese eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf das Funktionieren eines solchen Hauses unter sowohl theater- als auch usikwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen im europäischen Rahmen. Das Buch versteht sich als ein Beitrag zur Sozialgeschichte der städtischen Institution Oper und beleuchtet unter diesem Vorzeichen eine Fülle von Problemkonstellationen, wie sie im Alltagsbetrieb einer solchen Einrichtung anzutreffen sind.

Vzpomínky českého hudebního kritika a skladatele Emanuela Chvály (1851-1924) reflektující českou hudbu a pražský hudební život v období od osmdesátých let 19. století do 1. světové války. // Sestaveno autorem na základě vlastních kritik, publikovaných v Lumíru, Daliboru a zejm. v denících Politik, Union, Národní politika a Národní listy.