{"id":946,"date":"2007-05-21T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=946"},"modified":"2007-05-21T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T08:05:00","slug":"iva_bittova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/05\/iva_bittova\/","title":{"rendered":"Iva Bittova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting will be scant and seldom this week. I am still cranking on a flurry of assignments that must be completed before I take off for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcp-music.org\/snj2007.html\"target=\"_blank\">Swing &#8216;n Jazz <\/a>fiesta in Rochester, New York.<br \/>\nOne of the pieces is for the next George Mraz CD, which involves the remarkable Czech singer, violinist and actress Iva Bittova. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7MXiCXBl1bA\"target=\"_blank\">This piece of video <\/a>has her with the Stampa quartet in what appears to be the St. Nicholas Church in Prague, performing two Janacek songs. I have listened extensively to Bittova and watched several of her videos. She reminds me of no one as much as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ki0MIqwjfGg\"target=\"_blank\">Elis Regina<\/a>, the Brazilian marvel who died several years ago. The comparison is not of idiom but of musicianship and irrepressible spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting will be scant and seldom this week. I am still cranking on a flurry of assignments that must be completed before I take off for the Swing &#8216;n Jazz fiesta in Rochester, New York. One of the pieces is for the next George Mraz CD, which involves the remarkable Czech singer, violinist and actress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}