CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The 8th annual Country & Czech Music Fest kicked off at Moravian Hall, Saturday. The event was hosted by the Czech Heritage Society of South Texas for members of the community ...

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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 ...

The Czech Philharmonic, under Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, commemorates the centennial of the Year of Czech Music in 2024 with a variety of programs around the world, with ...

When it comes to Mozart’s opera "The Marriage of Figaro," Adam Plachetka has sung both of its leading male roles: Figaro and Count Almaviva. And when the Czech bass-baritone finishes his three-day run ...

The tradition of the Year of Czech Music began exactly one hundred years ago in 1924 with the centenary celebration of the birth of composer Bedřich Smetana. Since then, the Year of Czech Music has ...

Young Czech pianist Jan Schulmeister wins the Newcomer award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for his recording of Russian ...

Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium is as integral to Manhattan’s bedrock as any place in the city. Yet this week one could be forgiven for thinking it had been transported to Prague (or Brno), so ...

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 ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Cerny, a legendary Czech music critic who introduced Western music to generations of listeners behind the Iron Curtain and became one of the voices of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet ...