{"id":2953,"date":"2011-09-22T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:40:29","slug":"autumn-in-prague-among-other-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/09\/autumn-in-prague-among-other-places\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Autumn In Prague, Among Other Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere. Coincidentally, Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, who lives in an eastern precinct of the hemisphere, recently alerted me to new video of a performance last spring at the Prague Castle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Klaus-White.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Klaus-White.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Klaus, White\" width=\"140\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2954\" \/><\/a>Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, hosted a tribute to Miles Davis. It was a concert in the <em>Jazz na Hrad\u00c4\u203a<\/em> series that the president initiated, with Viklick\u00c3\u00bd&#8217;s help, at the Czech counterpart of the White House. <\/p>\n<p>The musicians are Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, piano; Jon Faddis, trumpet; Jaroslav Jakubovic, baritone saxophone; Tom Barney, bass; and Lennie White, drums. The tune is&#151;what else?&#151;\u00e2\u20ac\u009dAutumn Leaves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Following the performance, a bevy of beautiful Czech women presents flowers to the musicians, President Klaus goes on stage to offer his thanks, and White speaks for the band. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a class act, all the way around.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HWFFxBFVAhk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For another performance from the same concert, and background about Klaus&#8217;s concert series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/07\/summertime-in-prague.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere. Coincidentally, Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd, who lives in an eastern precinct of the hemisphere, recently alerted me to new video of a performance last spring at the Prague Castle. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, hosted a tribute to Miles Davis. It was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}