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"For me personally the task since 1993 has been to create awareness of contemporary serious music in world context." "Only quixotic aims are worth anything."
I have rather mischievously taken these two statements from an interview with Jaroslav Stastny, the programme director and organiser of the Exposition They give a good idea of the almost missionary enthusiasni Jaroslav Stastny which generates around him, and which breathes through the copious and carefully prepared publicly materials for the festival. (By the way, the whole, interview is worth reading, and you can find it with the programme materials on www.enh.3web.cz.) Such an explicit striving to change anything, and such an urge to spread enlightenment are rare indeed in this country. Stastny simply refuses to reconcile himself to the idea that supporters of New and Other music are a small sect destined for extinction, and he tries to attract potential new recruits "from outside" in the hope that the music they hear will take them beyond the point of "no turning back". I can't judge how far he is managing to achieve this goal. To be honest, I much more interested in the way that he tries to achieve it, and the way he ensures that the result is a professionally run festival of high quality. On the other hand, it needs to be said that efforts to spread enlightenment may be slightly risky in the sense that they may over-simplify, offer up pre-digested fare or cheapen. Naturally this isn't what really happens at the exposition--it's not an educational concert, but one small doubt remains, and I think it worth discussing.
POLEMIC
My reservation concerns the video projection on the back of the stage during the concerts. And since the issue is a more general one, and the ENM is far from the only event concerned, I permit myself to go into it in a bit more depth.
Essentially there are two alternatives. The first...
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