Review: Czech violinist Ivan Ženatý offers up fitting celebration

Exactly 100 years (and one day) ago, on Oct. 28, 1918, as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed at the end of the First World War, Czech politicians took over in Prague. Czechoslovakia was born.
The anniversary was marked by the Edmonton Recital Society — with the support of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences of Alberta — in a recital concert at Muttart Hall on Sunday (Oct. 28). What was not mentioned in the opening introductions was that 2018 is also the 50th anniversary