The Buried Orchestra

Czech Musicians Who Hid 3,000 Hours of Banned Recordings Inside Instrument Cases in 14 Monasteries
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Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

When the tanks entered Prague in August 1968, the government did what all frightened governments eventually do: it silenced the music. Licenses were revoked, recordings cleared from broadcast archives, and an entire generation of composers and musicians erased from the official record as completely as if they had never played a single note.They played anyway. For twenty years, they recorded everything on Soviet tape in apartments and farmhouses, concealed the reels inside violin cases with false bottoms, and carried them on ordinary trains to monasteries whose monks understood, without needing it explained, what it meant to keep something precious through a period that wanted it destroyed.What waited in those fourteen stone storerooms for half a century was not simply music. It was the proof that beauty, when it is stubborn enough, outlasts everything arranged against it.