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Veselé a plodné jaro
Spring has finally arrived officially, though I hear it was early in central Europe. When I found this video of Tomáš Kočko and his orchestra, I saw that last year's Fulbright dream of holding a spring rite at the statue of the Three Graces in the Lednice-Valtice area had already been realized. Of course, they don't use the setting, but this is definitely a spring ritual, and perhaps the symbolic representations of fertility are a bit more obvious than usual. As to other meanings of the video, I'm not entirely sure, but please feel free to speculate in the comments. Happy spring to all and I hope you enjoy dancing in rings around your campfires.
Posted 21 March 2007 at 21:39.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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Hey Jesse! Gabe came to visit me this weekend and he said you had a facebook but I couldn't find you. You should look me up. I hope everything's going well for you and it would be nice to hear from you sometime. Take care.
Jamie
9:06 PM, March 24, 2007
Hi Jamie, good to hear from you! I'll try to find you on facebook.
9:35 PM, March 24, 2007
Hey Morskyjezek, can you enlighten me as to the lyrics of the song? Very nice video they put together!
6:19 AM, April 05, 2007
No activity for one month so far.
The blog is agonizing? :-(
12:57 AM, April 23, 2007
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