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The Clarinet Factory Performs at Prague Spring Festival

Edit Topix 26 May 2016
Imagine a musical performance on the first floor of the National Air & Space Museum. That is what occurred at the National Technical Museum during the recent Prague Spring Festival ... ....

Festivals & events

Edit Stars and Stripes 26 May 2016
  Austria. SALZBURG ... VIENNA ... RETZ ... VIENNA ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Spring International Music Festival, through June 4 ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Beer at the Castle, micro-brewery fest, Prague Castle Gardens, June 10-11. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Respect Festival, Prague Exhibition Grounds, June 11-12 ... PRAGUE. Festival of Rose Wines, Prague Castle area, June 17-19. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Ice Cream Festival, Prague Exhibition Grounds Holesovice, June 26. PRAGUE....

The Wars of Vladimir Putin

Edit The New York Review of Books 25 May 2016
The city of Donetsk fell to the separatists for local reasons.3 In spring 2014, its local oligarchs were indecisive and tried, disastrously, to play Kiev and Moscow against each other ... enforcing the principle that public efforts to change politics for the better must bring war and “normalization”—to use the term made notorious after the Red Army and its Warsaw Pact allies put down the Prague Spring in 1968....

Lithuanian and Czech Prime Ministers: development of space for cooperation and reinforced partnership (Government of the Republic of Lithuania)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
The Lithuanian Head of Government has expressed his hope that a bilateral transport forum, held in Prague, will encourage cooperation between transport and logistics companies of the two countries ... and Violeta Urmana - held at Prague Philharmonia. The Lithuanian musicians had been invited to attend the Prague Spring International Music Festival....

Korean piano prodigies take top 3 spots in Prague music contest

Edit Topix 17 May 2016
Korean classical music artists continue to dominate elite international music competitions, with three budding Kumho Art Hall pianists snagging the top three spots at this year's 68th annual Prague Spring International Music Competition held in the Czech Republic capital last week ... ....

Barbican Film: Drahomíra Vihanová (Barbican Centre)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
The Barbican is delighted to present A Squandered Sunday, followed by a Screen Talk with Drahomíra Vihanová, live from Prague ... Drahomíra Vihanová was a prominent member of the Czechoslovak New Wave, alongside Milos Forman, Ivan Passer, and Jiří Menzel, but unlike some of her contemporaries, she remained in her country after the Prague Spring in 1968, only to have her work heavily censored....

Obituary: Elsie Morison, operatic soprano

Edit Scotsman 12 May 2016
Born. 15 August, 1924. Died . 5 April, 2016, aged 91. The soprano Elsie Morison was a leading soprano in the early days of the Covent Garden Opera Company (later the Royal Opera) ... She established herself as a major presence and became an integral member of the opera scene in the capital ... In 1990 despite ill health Kubelík returned to Prague to conduct the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Festival ... He died in 1996. ....

Festivals & events, May 13, 2016

Edit Stars and Stripes 11 May 2016
Spring is here, which means longer days and an ever-growing selection of events in Europe ... PRAGUE. Book World, Fair and Literary Festival, Prague Exhibition Grounds (Holesovice), through May 15. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Spring International Music Festival, through June 4. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE. Open House Prague, architecturally significant buildings open doors, May 14-15. PRAGUE. Special Exhibition of The Crown Jewels, Prague Castle, May 15-29. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE....

Obituary: Alyson Bailes, diplomat, academic and lecturer

Edit Scotsman 10 May 2016
Born. 6 April, 1949 in Liverpool. Died. 29 April, 2016 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders, aged 67 ... In 2001, she was made an honorary fellow of the college. Following her experiences in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1968, during a university trip, when Soviet tanks rolled into the capital to crush the “Prague Spring” and then being evacuated by the British Embassy, Bailes decided that a diplomat's life would be an interesting one ... ....

Festivals & events, April 29, 2016

Edit Stars and Stripes 28 Apr 2016
Spring is here, which means an ever-growing selection of festivals and events to enjoy ... Gauder Fest, traditional spring festival, through May 1 ... Bregenz Spring International Dance Festival, performances April 30, May 7 and 28 ... Urfahraner Markt, traditional spring fun fair, April 30-May 5 ... PRAGUE. Book World, Fair and Literary Festival, Prague Exhibition Grounds (Holesovice), May 12-15. PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE ... PRAGUE....

'Today we die a little' – writing the story of Emil Zátopek

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2016
I think I may even have been dimly aware of him as a child, from seeing news reports about the Prague Spring ... whom? A lot of myths just get repeated again and again – for example, the story that Emil used to carry Dana on his back when he trained, or that he gave his gold medal to Ron Clarke in 1968, after the Prague Spring and the Mexico Olympics....

And the wind began to howl: Revisiting the arts in 1968 (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Virginia Commonwealth University). Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, as the famous saying goes ... Classes largely emphasize the histories of individual disciplines of art ... 1968. Love, War, and Revolution ... Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr ... Instead, various professors lead lectures on everything from black activism to the Paris Riots and the Prague Spring ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Singapore Symphony Orchestra to perform in Germany and Prague (Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
Come May 23 to 31, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will embark on an exciting five-city tour of Germany and Czech Republic, including highly anticipated appearances in the prestigious Dresden Music Festival and Prague Spring Music Festival. The 2016 Europe tour will mark the orchestra's return to Germany after six years, and the SSO's return to Prague after 28 years....
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