Bohuslav Martinu emigrated from Vichy France to the U.S. in 1941 and despite various problems, including those caused by falling off a roof, established a flourishing career there. He composed the short opera What Men Live By in 1952, apparently intending it for television or radio broadcast, but outside of a performance at the Interlochen Academy in Michigan and a few other collegiate productions accompanied by a piano, nothing came of it. The work was revived in 2014 by the late Czech conductor Jirí Belohlávek and the ...
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Bohuslav Martinu emigrated from Vichy France to the U.S. in 1941 and despite various problems, including those caused by falling off a roof, established a flourishing career there. He composed the short opera What Men Live By in 1952, apparently intending it for television or radio broadcast, but outside of a performance at the Interlochen Academy in Michigan and a few other collegiate productions accompanied by a piano, nothing came of it. The work was revived in 2014 by the late Czech conductor Jirí Belohlávek and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; that concert is presented here, with a live performance from a different date of the composer's Symphony No. 1 (not an especially relevant choice) to bring down the curtain. The English text is by Martinu himself, and an all-Czech group of soloists and the Czech Martinu Voices produce a remarkably idiomatic reading. It is based on a story by Tolstoy about a cobbler who knows people by their shoes and hears an annunciation of a visit from Jesus -- which he...
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