Prague

I had a wonderful time in Vienna and learned so much, but it was time to move on to my next city: Prague. I took the train and had a meeting scheduled with Ales Brezina as soon as I arrived. Ales is a director of the Martinu institue, an organization dedicated to preserving the Czech composer's legacy by offering archives of everything and anything related to Martinu and spreading the world about this composer. Our conversation, although, centered more on the classical music culture and music education in Prague. Similarly to Viennese music education, Prague children can take music lessons and learn and instrument outside of school, if they choose to. This is usually in the form of private lessons with less opportunity to play in an ensemble compared to American music education. 

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