Posts in music
Embracing the Inexplicable, the 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival

We are thrilled to present the 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival as it returns to in-person format at Bohemian National Hall. Entitled “Embracing the Inexplicable,” the 2021 edition is conceived as an occasion for our international community of artists and audiences to reconvene in order to heal collectively and embrace the uncertainties amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Prague Spring Festival 2020 in Your Home

Our members and online audiences can enjoy, from the comfort of their home, the 2020 Prague Spring International Music Festival. Eleven concerts will be broadcast online live from five concert halls in Prague and one in Brno, and recordings of legendary performances from previous years will be streamed. The festival evenings will be hosted by Ondrej Havelka.

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For the Inquiring Mind, SVU NY Online

The New York Chapter of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) invites you to their YouTube channel to watch six events that you might have missed: Escaping from Czechoslovakia (2016), Posezeni: Remembering New York’s “Little Bohemia” (2018), 6-Minute Challenge (2018), The Tribute to the Art of the Folksong (2018), 5+1: Jana Jarkovska (2019), and Americans in 1990s Prague (2019).

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From DAHA With Love: Online Music Series

In this time of uncertainty, fear, and isolation, but also courage and light, our member organization, the Dvorak American Heritage Association (DAHA), launches a new program called From DAHA With Love to offer some of the favorite musical moments online. The music will be broadcasted on weekdays at 10:00 am beginning April 8.

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Making History: “New World” Symphony Manuscript in BNH

BY MAJDA KALLAB WHITAKER

As a center of Czech culture and government, the historic Bohemian National Hall was recently the proud venue of a historic exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic. To mark this occasion, the original manuscript the "New World" Symphony, composed by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak in New York City in 1893, was placed on public view

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