{"id":15061,"date":"2022-09-23T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?page_id=15061"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:00:32","slug":"kh-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/kh-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Karel Husa, Music for Prague 1968<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karel Husa\u2019s masterful Music for Prague 1968 <\/em>is widely regarded as a staple of wind band repertoire. Since its premiere in January 1969, performers, reviewers, and audiences alike have embraced the poignancy of the work\u2019s message of the brutality of war and the universal longing for freedom. For the composer, the composition was a very personal response to the overnight invasion of Czechoslovakia, Husa\u2019s home country, on August 20\u201321, 1968, by Warsaw Pact forces aiming to end the liberal regime of Alexander Dubcek and suppress the country\u2019s movements toward democracy. As Husa listened to radio reports of the invasion from his summer cottage on New York\u2019s Cayuga Lake, the composer was inspired to memorialize the event\u2014and his beloved homeland\u2014through his music. The previous May, Husa had accepted a commission from Dr. Kenneth Snapp and the Ithaca College Concert Band, and so the composer fueled his anger and disbelief about the invasion into the piece. Reflecting on this work, Dr. Mark Davis Scatterday, Professor of Conducting and Ensembles and close friend of Karel Husa, observed, \u201cThe emotional impact, historical significance, musical stature and personal dignity embodied in [Husa\u2019s] music provides a unique opportunity for ensembles, conductors and audiences to perhaps experience some of the commitment to the dignity and freedom of mankind that Karel Husa must have known when he wrote Music for Prague 1968<\/em> and re-lives every day of his life.\u201d[1]<\/p>\n

In\u00a0November\u00a02016,\u00a0the\u00a0Karel\u00a0Husa\u00a0Archive<https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/files\/Karel-Husa-Archive.pdf>\u2014an extensive collection of the composer\u2019s manuscripts and sketches, performance scores, recordings, and papers\u2014arrived at Sibley Music Library, having been transferred at the composer\u2019s request from its first home at Ithaca College. Music for Prague 1968, <\/em>along with many of Husa\u2019s other masterpieces, is intimately preserved in the Archive in sketches and scores, recordings, newspaper reviews, photographs, letters, and innumerable documents, many of which testify of the work\u2019s powerful and lasting impact.<\/p>\n

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