{"id":3041,"date":"2011-10-30T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T00:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2011-10-30T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:19:44","slug":"viklickys-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/10\/viklickys-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Viklick\u00c3\u00bd&#8217;s Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Klaus-Viklicky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Klaus-Viklicky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ud\u00c3\u0192\"\u00adlen\u00c3\u0192\"\u00ad St\u00c3\u0192\"\u00a1tn\u00c3\u0192\"\u00adch vyznamen\u00c3\u0192\"\u00a1n\u00c3\u0192\"\u00ad na Pra\u00c3\u2026\"\u00besk\u00c3\u0192\"\u00a9m Hrad\u00c3\u201e\"\u203a\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3042\" \/><\/a>Last Friday, pianist and composer Emil Viklick\u00c3\u00bd received the Czech Republic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Medal of Merit from the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president, Vaclav Klaus. With his international reputation, Viklick\u00c3\u00bd (pictured on the right, with the president) is one of his country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best-known musicians. Among the ten others receiving the medal were the Shakespeare translator Martin Hilsky, champion ski jumper Jiri Raska, and Jan Krulis-Randa, a U.S. climatologist of Czech origin. Bassist George Mraz is a previous winner. Viklick\u00c3\u00bd helped President Klaus to establish the Jazz na Hrad\u00c4\u203a series of concerts that have become regular events at Prague Castle, the Czech counterpart of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Viklick\u00c3\u00bd last January in the concluding number of a New York concert with Scott Robinson, a colleague since their student days at Berklee College of Music. The composition is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Touha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Viklick\u00c3\u00bd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sinfonietta-Janacek-Jazz-Emil-Viklicky\/dp\/B002MH1A5I?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Sinfonietta<\/em><\/a> CD.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8iipy7Y6ocg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For more about Viklick\u00c3\u00bd and Robinson, including additional video, go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/01\/the_viklicky-robinson_concert.html\"><em>Rifftides<\/em> archive post<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-3041","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\/3041","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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}