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CZECH REPUBLIC: MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Prague Spring International Music Festival showcases performing artists, orchestras, and ensembles from around the world. The festival has opened since 1952 with a performance of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's symphonic poems Ma Vlast. The 53-year-old festival continues through June 3. Events are held in the city's three main opera houses as well as in palaces and churches.

A history of the Prague Spring festival:
http://www.festival.cz/historie/histo_uk.htm

The Prague Spring Festival's schedule of events:
http://www.festival.cz/proguk1.htm
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I can go to this!
June 2, Saturday Church of St Simon and St Jude
ANONYMOUS 4
1000 - A Mass for the End of Time

memory

Saw Memento this afternoon at the Arbor. Whoa. My head is still spinning from it. I can't imagine how arduous a task editing that film was. The way it usees time is quite different, even more extraordinary than jumping around like say Pulp Fiction. It was good, and a movie one needs to watch over and over. I need to email Hana and send her to see it. Maybe I'll take her.

Also saw a preview of The Luzhin Defense, based on Nabokov's novel. I'm not sure how I feel about this. But if I can, I will probably see it. The Luzhin Defense is the original Russian title, though why exactly it was changed in the English translation I forget. It's one of my favorite pieces of Nabokov's, fantastically constructed. One can quite literally play a game of chess through the paragraphs. It's the only reason I ever wanted to play chess.

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My head aches. Trying to pull my life down into a few pages, a "personal essay" for a scholarship. I don't even know how much this is for. It's a complicated essay, wanting a dozen bullet pointed bits of information about my academic career, work outside of school, etc. Haven't had to write anything like this in ages it seems like. Maybe I have forgotten my double-speak. Hmm.

Reading Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World again. My friend Mike was reading it not too long ago, and wants to write an article on American and Czech hard-boiled fiction. He's going to spend part of his time in Prague researching that I believe.

A package came from Canada today, bearing an Aero bar, a pen, a notebook, and a postcard of a timber wolf. Absolutely lovely. This package gang is quite fun. It reminds me that i need to make a list of addresses to take with me next week. God, I can't believe I'm leaving next weekend. Eek. The nervous anticipation will drive me insane. Time to start reviewing my case endings.