NEW SVU PUBLICATION

ESSAYS ON CZECH MUSIC

Essays on Czech Music, written by Czech musicologist Zdenka Fischmann, published by SVU through East European Monographs and distributed by Columbia University Press will be available to the general public in July 2002.

SVU has published posthumously Dr. Fischmann's work as a tribute to her contribution to Czech music. Dr. Fischmann left her native land after the Communist took over and settled in the United States. She was an untiring propagator of Czech music through her lectures and publications.

The subject of her essays is broad and varied--from the "First Czech Opera''Dratenik" to a charming detective work finding "Spanish Maestro with Czech Roots" (Juan Skoczdopole) in Madrid through advertising on match boxes. In a double capacity as a musicologist and psychologist, she gives a wonderful insight into composers' personality in "Janaceks Creativity" or analysis of Smetana's mental problems in the essay "Smetana and Pivoda."

A large part of the book is devoted to Jewish musicians in "Jewish Musicians with Roots in Czechoslovakia" and "Music in Terezin," The book is an attractive hard bound edition with a cover design by Czech artist Liba Puchmajer from Pennsyslvania.

The book can be ordered from:

Zdenka Vozarik
906 Potterton Circle
Vienna, VA 22180

The cost is $15 plus $3 postage and handling. Make checks payable to SVU Essays.

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