Katelyn Bouska introduces the music of Ivana Loudova (WOMEN and WAR and PEACE)

Katelyn Bouska’s Yarlung debut album “Women and War and Peace” (catalog number) YAR54460 includes Ivana Loudova's Prague Imaginations: Five Pieces for Piano.
Kate describes how Loudová’s music “illustrates a sensitivity to musical space and refined textures. In none of her compositions is this sensitivity and musical evocations more clear than in her musical snapshots of her beloved Prague. Pražské imaginace (Prague Imaginations) is an auditory stroll through the city, capturing both the immediacy of its present but also the city’s complex past. She embeds the sounds, images and history of the city into this music, the city's tolling bells and iconic towers, the mysterious carillon strains of Loreta Monastery and even the folklore of Charles Bridge.
“Prague stands as a living monument to Czech people. One sees symbols of Czech national survival everywhere. A ten-minute walk takes one past the New Town Tower, site of the first Prague defenestration in 1419 during the Hussite wars, to the Church of Cyril and Methodius where one can still see bullet holes where Czech resistance fighters held their last stand against the Nazis. And just around the corner, Charles Bridge and Castle Hill towering above it. One can just make out the side tower, site of the third Prague defenestration starting the 30-Years War in 1630s, and also the quiet ‘fourth’ defenestration where Jan Masaryk died from a mysterious fall out of a window
during the Communist era. Ivana Loudová loved and gave her life to this city and nation, and her memory and music remain one of the Czech Republic’s greatest monuments.”
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