PT Journal
AU Polednak, I
TI KLUSAK´S WORLD OF THEATRE AND FILM
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 1997
BP 125
EP 137
VL 3
IS 1
AB The author of this treatise is presently preparing a literary monograph about the Czech composer Jan Klusak. This treatise is a direct continuation of two of his publications about Klusak: a study called "The Inventions of Jan Klusak", which was published in AUPO, Musicologica II (1995, pp. 85-109), and an interview published in the film quarterly Illuminace ("I like music which seems to play the role of another character in a movie…" a talk with composer Jan Klusak about (music for) theatre and film; 1996, No. 2, pp. 107-119). To start off with, the author observes the beginnings of Klusak´s interest in film and theatre and his years spent as a student at the Academy of Music in Prague, then more or less chronologically goes through Klusak´s production for film and television. Attention is also given to "a by-product" of Klusak´s interest in film and theatre, that is his remarkable activity as an actor in films connected with the so-called new wave of Czech film in the sixties, and in theatre with the intimate stage of the Jara Cimrman Theater in Prague. Klusak´s production of music for the stage is discussed and special attention is devoted to Klusak´s bigger musical theater works: the opera "Twelfth Night" and the singspiel, "Evil Stag". The treatise ends with the statement that Klusak, in his autochthonous production, is considered to be rather an uncompromising composer in regards to style and, consequently, rather esoteric. When cooperating on complex or multimedia projects he is not only very inventive, but also adaptable and abundantly possessed of a copious palette of musical means. In the annotated appendix, there is a list of literature on the treatise´s theme and an attempt to briefly grasp Klusak´s life and work in "glossary" form.
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