1998

society

The Kapralova Society is a non-profit arts organization based in Toronto, Canada. Founded by Karla Hartl in 1998, the society's mission is to promote interest in Kapralova and other women in music through education, research, and special projects, in collaboration with other organizations. Members of the society reside in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Israel, and Japan.

The compact disc "Vitezslava Kapralova: Portrait of a Composer" was released on December 15, 1998. The project was initiated by the society's predecessor, Spolecnost Vitezslavy Kapralove, founded by Karla Hartl in Prague in November 1997, and undertaken in partnership with the Prague label Studio Matous. Together, the two organizations were able to raise 148,000 Czech crowns from both public and private sources. In addition, the project received considerable contributions in-kind. (For individual acknowledgements please refer to the project page).

The Kapralova Society Website was posted on the world wide web in August 1998. Since then it has been providing information not only on Vitezslava Kapralova but also on other women composers, both contemporary and historical. In November 1998 the website received an important recognition from Malaspina University which rated the site as a five-star site.¹

¹ Malaspina University defines a five-star site as follows: "[I]n our evaluation of WWW resources available (for the authors/artists we refer to), a five star site uses internet capacities effectively and the information there (or linked from there) appears to be reliable. [..] Our main interest in assigning these designations is to recognize and encourage excellence in a medium where there is a lot of 'noise'."

Prepared by Karla Hartl, Chair, The Kapralova Society. Toronto, March 1999.