Czech Music Quarterly: Ostrava Days 2023
Publikováno: 13.10.2023
The new issue of the English-language magazine Czech Music Quarterly has just been published. In that issue, three texts return to Ostrava in August for the 12th biennial Ostrava Days festival.
Every two years, we at Czech Music Quarterly are faced with a dilemma: we know we have what amounts to an obligation to cover the Ostrava Days Festival, but the sheer size and breadth of the event means that any attempts to cover it in its entirety are doomed to superficiality. This year, then, we present a series of three shorter texts with a more specific focus: two contributions by our editor (and Ostrava Days Institute resident composer) Ian Mikyska, the first an insider's "dictionary" on what it is that makes the OD Institute special, and the second and exploration of the links between the festival and the Czech musical scene, while the final article in the triptych, by New York-based journalist Kurt Gottschalk, discusses several pieces at the festival that made use of text – not as lyrics or song, but as spoken or projected text.
The magazine can be purchased here.
The selections of texts focused on Ostrava Days can be downloaded here.
