Ma Vlast

Ma Vlast - Tabor and Blanik

Ma Vlast - Tabor and Blanik

We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. This week, Evan concludes his three week exploration of Ma Vlast with excursions into Czech history, mythology, and religion. He tells the story of Zdenek Nejedly, the Czech Forrest Gump, and Rafael Kubelik - his favorite conductor. 

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Ma Vlast - Moldau

Ma Vlast - Moldau

We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. In this episode, Evan continues his exploration of Ma Vlast and the Moldau's exhibition of the Czech countryside.

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Ma Vlast - Vysehrad

Ma Vlast - Vysehrad

We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. In this episode, Evan begins to take us down a journey through the exceedingly strange orchestral composition: Ma Vlast, which has so much to tell us about Central European history, about nationalism, about the 19th century, a period that seems so different from our own, but just beneath the surface, is all too similar, and how the era set the stage for everything that's happened ever since. 

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