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The prayers and czardas of: Agnes Kutas.

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The end of 1st year turned the spotlight on three Czech women singers (Or more precisely three women singers living in Czechia"), who seek and find inspiration in folk musik. Iva Bittova out-shone the acclaimed Netherlands blazers ensemble, and as they tried to get a grasp of her musik and Janacek's she gave them a lesson in spontenaity. At the request of the Partnership Foundation, Zuzana Lapcikova recorded an album about trees, Strom zivota [The Tree of Life]--and managed to breathe life into it with a highly individual folk mythology based on humility and a sense of deep connection with nature.

But these are two very well-known and even quite famous names, of course, and what is interesting Is that a new face is appearing beside theirs. It belongs to a woman who has already been living here for twenty years, but has not yet attracted so much attention. As her Internet page puts it, her music is "free of ingrating looks and fluttering eyelashes and seasoned with hot Hungarian paprika ... Her pieces are quite prayers, but sleeping in those prayers is a fiery...

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