General Motors could learn a thing or two from the Naxos label and its Marco Polo imprint about getting product to market quickly. This disc of orchestral marches, polkas, and waltzes by Bohemian composer Karel Komzák II, along with a few by his father, was recorded at the Concert Hall of Slovak Radio in June 2005, and just a few months later it was on the streets in the American provinces, with funding in place from something called the Kmoch European Bands Society and well-researched liner notes explaining, among other ...
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General Motors could learn a thing or two from the Naxos label and its Marco Polo imprint about getting product to market quickly. This disc of orchestral marches, polkas, and waltzes by Bohemian composer Karel Komzák II, along with a few by his father, was recorded at the Concert Hall of Slovak Radio in June 2005, and just a few months later it was on the streets in the American provinces, with funding in place from something called the Kmoch European Bands Society and well-researched liner notes explaining, among other things, that the younger Komzák's Obstructionspolka referred to a filibuster in the Austrian parliament by conservatives who wanted to deny Czech-language rights to Czech speakers in Bohemia and Moravia. The music is of interest to anyone who likes Johann Strauss Jr. or the orchestral dance music of Central Europe in general, and some of it would have been known even in the U.S. 100 years ago; Warschauer Mäd'ln (Warsaw Girls) was conducted by Komzák II at the St. Louis World's Fair in...
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