Israel Kamakawiwoole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Wonderful World

KUCHERA (Kucera) Vaclav (b. 29 IV 1929, Prague) - Czechoslovak composer and musicologist. In 1948-51 he studied the history of music and muses. aesthetics at Charles University in Prague. In 1956 he graduated from historical and theoretical. (class of N. V. Tumanina) and composer (class of V. Ya. Shebalin) f-you Mosk. conservatory. In 1956-59 ed. musesprograms radio (also the author of programs about Soviet composers, including about S. S. Prokofiev), in 1959-62 led the Cabinet for the Study of Modern. music at the Union of Czechoslovak composers. Since the foundation of the Institute of Musicology (1962) of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague - hands. sectors of muses. aesthetics, since 1965 scientific secretary of the institute. Since 1972, the answer. Secretary of the Czechoslovak Union composers and conc. performers. Author of works, dedicated. problems of the Czechoslovak modern. music, owls music, as well as works on USA. (M.P. Mussorgsky, A.N. Scriabin, I.F. Stravinsky), Sov. (D. D. Shostakovich, A. I. Khachaturian, D. B. Kabalevsky, R. K. Shchedrin, E. V. Denisov, A. P. Petrov, S. M. Slonimsky) and Western European. (B. Bartok, L. Dallapikkola, L. Nono) composers.