#jan klusak

[dare-g]

Martyrs of Love (1967)

[randomrichards]

Valeries and Her Week of Wonders

[ewca67v]

An overview of Czech soldiers who died on missions in Afghanistan August 5, 2018 - Three Czech soldiers perished in the assault of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, the General Staff of the Czech Army announced. The Czechs patrolled around Bagrám base in the province of Parvan. July 8, 2014 - Five Czech soldiers have been the victim of an explosion of an improvised explosive device near Bagrám in the province of Parvan. The attack on the site did not survive Sergeant Ivo Klusak, Corporal Libor Ligač, Corporal Jan Šenkýř and Deputy Secretary David Beneš, two Afghan policemen and several civilians. Mayor Jaroslav Lieskovan died of heavy injuries on July 14 at the Central Military Hospital in Prague. October 9, 2011 - Admiral Werner died in the military hospital in Olomouc, who was badly wounded in July in an attack on the Czech pre-basin in the province of Vardak. May 31, 2011 - In the province of Vardak, Czech soldier Robert Vyroubal died when he was driving his car on an improvised explosive device; an Afghan interpreter perished in an explosion, and two other soldiers were injured. April 30, 2008 - In the province of Logar, Czech soldier Radim Vaculík lost his life after he landed on a loaded truck; four other troops from the wagon were injured. March 17, 2008 - When suicide attack died Military Police Military Milan Štěrba; two soldiers were injured, one of them heavily. May 3, 2007 - Czech soldier Nikolai Martyn has prepared an avalanche of stones and mud for life in Badakhshan province; two other soldiers were injured.

[todayclassical]

April 18 in Music History

1605 Birth of Italian composer Giacomo Carissimi. 

1682 FP of Lully's opera Perseus at Paris Opera.

1759 Birth of composer Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerker.

1764 Birth of pianist, conductor and composer Bernhard Anselm Weber. 

1773 Birth of Italian mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Grassini in Varese. 

1777 Birth of German composer Ludwig Berger. 

1777 Birth of composer Ignac Ruzitska.

1786 Birth of Swiss composer Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee in Luzern. 

1800 FP of Beethoven's Horn Sonata. Wenzel Punto and the composer at the piano in Vienna.

1806 Birth of composer Ludwig Schuberth.

1819 Birth of Austrian composer Franz Von Suppe. 1839 Birth of composer Frantz Prume.

1855 Birth of composer Josef Gruber.

1863 Birth of Austrian mezzo-soprano Irene von Chavanne in Graz. 

1871 FP of an American opera. Francis Hopkin's The Temple of Minerva.

1873 Birth of French composer Roger Ducasse.  1882 Birth of English conductor Leopold Stokowski in London. 

1887 Birth of American composer Clara Edwards.

1888 Birth of German soprano Frida Leider in Berlin.

1897 Birth of soprano Shevket Mamedova in Tbilisi.

1898 FP of Ravel's Menuet Antique at Salle Erad, in Paris. 

1898 FP of Ernest Chausson's Symphony, in Paris.

1899 Birth of Czech conductor Zdenek Chabala. 

1903 Birth of composer Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin.

1907 Birth of Hungarian composer and conductor Miklos Rozsa in Budapest.  1909 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead. 

1910 Birth of Austrailian soprano Sylvia Fischer in Melbourne. 

1913 Birth of composer Milos Sokola.

1913 Birth of American composer Kent W. Kennan in Milwaukee.

1924 Birth of composer Buxton Daeblite Orr.

1930 FP of Charles Wakefield Cadman's Violin Sonata. 

1932 Birth of Russian soprano Nadezda Kniplova in Ostrava. 

1933 Death of English bass Harry Dearth. 

1934 Birth of American tenor George Shirley in Indianapolis. 

1934 Birth of composer Jan Klusak.

1936 Death of Italian composer Ottorino Respighi in Rome. 1942 Birth of English bass Richard Angas in Surrey.

1944 Birth of American composer Rudy Shackelford.

1944 Birth of English-Australian pianist and composer Penelope Thwaites. 1944 FP of Leonard Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free at the Met in New York. 

1946 Birth of English tenor Robin Leggate in Cheshire. 

1948 Birth of American soprano Catherine Malfitano in NYC.

1950 Birth of Canadian pianist Jane Coop in St. John, New Brunswick.

1954 Birth of American composer Robert Greenberg.

1958 FP of Easley Blackwood's Symphony No. 1, in Boston

1958 FP of Quincy Porter's New England Episodes in Washington, D.C.

1965 Contralto Marian Anderson ended her 30-year singing career with a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 

1975 Death of English soprano Amy Shuard. 

1986 FP of John Harbison's Music for 18 Winds. MIT Chamber Players, with the composer conducting in Cambridge, MA.

1992 Death of baritone Jerzy Czaplicki. 

1995 Death of Italian tenor Florindo Andreolli.

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O slavnosti a hostech (A Report On The Party And The Guests)

Dir. Jan Němec (1966)