WILBER — The applause dies down and Leah Mach, wearing a traditional Czech vest and skirt, runs up to the outdoor bandstand, saluting the crowd Saturday. A sign above the bandstand greets the crowd as ...
When the Arete Quartet, one of Korea’s most closely watched young chamber ensembles, began discussing their first recording, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The tradition of the Year of Czech Music began exactly one hundred years ago in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Eva Krestová remembered Semyon Bychkov’s first rehearsal as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, leading Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” symphony. “I was shaking,” the viola leader ...
When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought “big bravura playing” was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about ...
The Smetana Trio, billed as the foremost of today’s Czech chamber ensembles, opened the Philharmonic Society’s chamber music series Saturday at Irvine Barclay Theatre with a clever program. It was an ...
Lee Roy Matocha of Fayetteville, who for more than 40 years entertained thousands of Texans with broadcasts of Czech music, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 70. Matocha also headed a six-piece ...
Monika Bagárová, Jan Bendig, Hard Rico, or Bobby Blaze – those are the most successful Romani performers mentioned in the ...
Max Diesing runs Maximum Underground, an alternative music shop located in Prague’s Old Town for many years. In fact the American says he is just about to mark his business’s “33 and a third” birthday ...