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REMINDER: our President Jiří Bělohlávek will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast of mainly Czech and Slovak soloists in a concert staging of Dvořák’s opera The Jacobin (Jakobín) Op 84 at the Barbican Hall, London on Saturday 4 February 2012, starting at 7.00pm >> more
• 2.30-5.30pm Jacobin Study Afternoon, Mozart Room, Barbican (free to holders of evening performance tickets)
[Posted 30 January 2012]
Nadia Myerscough (violin) and Clélia Iruzun (piano) will perform Janáček Sonata for Violin & Piano as part of an interesting recital at Leighton House Museum, Holland Park, London on Thursday 23 February 2012, commencing at 7.30pm >> more
[Posted 24 January 2012]- David Christophersen will perform Martinů Piano Sonata (H 350) in Edinburgh (January), Cambridge (April), Bristol (April) and London (September) during 2012 — performances will be part of a series of concerts featuring Prokofiev’s three “wartime” sonatas set in the context of other piano compositions >> more
[Posted 2 January 2012] - Long Beach Opera will perform Martinů’s The Tears of a Knife (Les larmes du couteau/Slzy nože) (H 169) in a double bill with Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), Sunday 11 March (2.00pm) & Saturday 17 March 2012 (8.00pm), Center Theatre, Long Beach, California >> more
[Posted 22 November 2011] - Ensemble 360 are touring England with Janáček’s 2nd String Quartet (Intimate Letters) for Music in the Round, in a semi-staged version devised in collaboration with Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres (November & December 2011; February & March 2012) >> more
[Posted 6 November 2011] - Proposed closure of important Czech opera company at
Janáček Theatre. The Dvořák Society has received extremely disturbing news about the future of opera at National Theatre Brno (Národní divadlo Brno) >> more
[Posted 26 October 2011] - Using classical music to help children out of poverty — how the Czech Harmonie Foundation (Nadační fond Harmonie) seeks to to encourage children with musical talent who come from some of the poorest families in the Czech Republic (Radio Prague English language web page) >> more
• visit Harmonie Foundation web site (English, Czech & Russian pages) >> - William Howard’s recording for Champs Hill of Pavel Zemek Novák 24 Preludes and Fugues is praised by Stephen Walsh writing for The Arts Desk — “… But now that Howard has made a brilliant, compelling recording of this 75-minute cycle, its composer’s British reputation might (or should) expand. …” >> more
• visit William Howard’s web site >>
[Posted 20 October 2011]
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