The teacher is now working on his concert career again after an interruption caused by a hand problem, which he said was cured through prayer. Urbis has always found musicians that want to perform his works. Now Urbis is thinking about branching out into composing band music. It s easier to get it played, he said. An artist can t sit on the couch and wait for the phone to ring, he said.
Promotion is everything.
You can t expect to be loved if you re not known. You have to work hard at finding opportunities. Urbis created the opportunity for making the CD by taking advantage of his ethnic heritage. He approached the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas, an organization that ordinarily concerns itself with the folkloric rather than the classical aspects of Czech culture, and proposed making a CD of classical Czech music. We re trying to expand on what it means to know the culture.