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2010 Archive
- >> April 2010
• Bärenreiter is to issue a new Urtext Edition of Dvořák’s Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (B 141), edited by our member Jonathan Del Mar >> - >> July 2010
• The Dvořák Society announces the death of Sir Charles Mackerras >> - >> August 2010
• First recording of Martinů opera Le Jour de Bonté, conducted by Milan Kaňák on Arco Diva label, to be released in UK on 5 October 2010 — London event at The Leicester Square Theatre to launch release >> - • Homage to Sir Charles Mackerras — Sir John Eliot Gardiner will now conduct concert by Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday 8 October 2010 in Prague Rudolfinum previously to have been conducted by our late President, Sir Charles Mackerras >>
- >> October 2010
• London launch event for ArcoDiva recording of Martinů opera Le Jour de Bonté (H 194) >> - • London screening of Czech opera film Tomorrow there will be … [Zitra se bude …] >>
- • Supraphon recording of Dvořák Symphonic Poems, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by our late President Sir Charles Mackerras, wins award for orchestral recording of the year in Gramophone 2010 Awards >>
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2009 Archive
- >> September 2009
• Chandos Records release recording of Martinů chamber music by Dvořák Society member William Howard and The Schubert Ensemble >> - >> October 2009
• Jiří Bělohlávek continues the BBC celebration of the Martinů anniversary with opening performance of complete Symphony cycle in London | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra prepares complete Piano Concerto cycle in Glasgow | Martinů and the Symphony Study Day in London >>
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2008 Archive
- >> January 2008
• performances of Hans Krása’s children’s opera Brundibár in Dayton, Ohio will be conducted by Patrick Reynolds and attended by survivor of Terezín production >> - >> March 2008
• BBC Symphony Orchestra 2008–9 Barbican season includes concert performance of Martinů opera Julietta conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek, UK première of Svatopluk Havelka Hommage á Hieronymous Bosch conducted by Jakub Hrůša, and Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen sung by Dagmar Pecková >> - >> May 2008
• New CD of Vítězslava Kaprálová chamber music released by Koch Records includes 7 première recordings >> - • Bohumil Fidler “My Life and Memories”: first English edition of memoirs edited by Sonya Szabo Reynolds and published by Dvořák Society >>
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2007 Archive
- >> March 2007
• Pierre Boulez will conduct Janáček’s opera From the House of the Dead (Z mrtvého domu) in Vienna, Amsterdam and Aix-en-Provence >> - >> July 2007
• Czech Music – a lifetime’s passion: Graham Melville-Mason, outgoing Dvořák Society Chairman, is interviewed by Markéta Vejvodová (journalist of Czech Radio 3 Vltava) >> - >> October 2007
• the death of composer and organist Petr Eben >>
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2006 Archive
- >> January 2006
• Korngold’s opera Die Tote Stadt to be performed in Berlin and Vienna in the same month (article also refers to Korngold Centre in Brno) >> - >> July 2006
• Forthcoming performances of music by Viktor Ullmann in Weimar and Hannover >> - • Houston Grand Opera will perform Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen for the first time in May 2007 with Lisa Saffer in title role >>
- >> August 2006
• Ian Horsbrugh, author of first full-length study of Janáček to be written in the English language, dies >> - • The Dvořák Society welcomes a new Vice-President, Míla Smetáčková >>
- • On-line petition for re-print of Brendan Carroll’s definitive biography of Korngold, The Last Prodigy >>
- >> September 2006
• Invitation to Dvořák Society members to attend a piano recital by pianist Béla Hartmann at the Czech Embassy in London and presentation of the Janáček medal to Dr Antonín Tučapský on Thursday 19th October 2006 >> - >> October 2006
• Important Czech composer Viktor Kalabis dies aged 83 >> - • Radio Prague on-line English language tribute to the late Viktor Kalabis >>
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2005 Archive
- >> January 2005
• Catalogue (revised) of Dvořák’s works >> - • New librarian for Dvořák Society >>
- >> February 2005
• Bělohlávek appointed Chief Conductor of BBC Symphony >> - • Czech Museum of Music >>
- • Vilém Tauský memorial concert (2) >>
- >> March 2005
• Janáček’s “Makropulos Case” at ENO 2006 (cond. Mackerras) >> - >> April 2005
• Eben’s complete organ works recorded by Gunther Rost >> - • new Secretary for Dvořák Society >>
- >> May 2005
• Score of Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Military Sinfonietta (Vojenská symfonieta) available again >> - >> June 2005
• Vilém Tauský’s ashes to be interred in Brno >> - >> September 2005
• Erwin Schulhoff’s opera Flammen (Plameny) to be staged in Vienna: conductor Bertrand de Billy (August 2006) >> - >> November 2005
• Sir Charles Mackerras: Philharmonia Orchestra to give 80th birthday concert at Australia House, London, on Saturday 26 November 2005 (preceded by reception) >>
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2004 Archive
- >> January 2004
• Czech & Slovak Music Anniversaries in 2004 >> - >> October 2004
• Memorial Concert for Vilém Tauský (1) >> - >> November 2004
• Martinů’s Divertimento for Two Recorders >> - >> December 2004
• Making the Dvořák Society’s Quarterly Diary of Events more widely available >>
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