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Spring Musicale: Dvorak and the American Spirit
Mar
30
3:00 PM15:00

Spring Musicale: Dvorak and the American Spirit

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CONCERT

In this year’s Sunday Musicale, Antonin Dvorak’s delightful Piano Quintet in A Major, opus 81 will be heard alongside spirituals arranged by Harry T. Burleigh, African American composer and singer befriended by Dvorak, and by fellow composer Moses Hogan, plus Dvorak’s own beloved vocal work "Songs My Mother Taught Me."

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Embrace Romance: Violin Virtuoso Iskandar Widjaja in Recital
Feb
14
7:00 PM19:00

Embrace Romance: Violin Virtuoso Iskandar Widjaja in Recital

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CONCERT

International violin virtuoso Iskandar Widjaja returns with a concert full of classical and contemporary musical inspiration. From Dvorak and Gershwin to a selection of Asian, American, and European works – as well as Iskandar's own compositions – themed around romance. Accompanied by pianist Miki Aoki.

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Antonin Dvorak in America: A Closer Look
Apr
19
7:00 PM19:00

Antonin Dvorak in America: A Closer Look

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LECTURE/RECITAL

Pianist and musicologist Katelyn Bouska offers new insights into Antonin Dvorak in America through a special musical tour focused on his compositions, students and contemporaries in the late 19th century. Featuring works by Dvorak, Burleigh, Beach, Sukova-Dvorakova.

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Open House NY – The Dvorak Room Viewing
Oct
22
1:00 PM13:00

Open House NY – The Dvorak Room Viewing

GUIDED TOUR

The Dvorak Room at the Bohemian National Hall welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York Weekend – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public.

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Pianist Matyas Novak Performs Smetana and Suk
Sep
14
7:00 PM19:00

Pianist Matyas Novak Performs Smetana and Suk

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PIANO RECITAL

The works of Bedrich Smetana and Josef Suk will be featured in a musically revealing piano program that anticipates the upcoming Year of Czech Music 2024, when musicians will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Smetana's birth and the 150th anniversary of Suk's birth.

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Who Gets to be Called Czech?
Apr
11
7:00 PM19:00

Who Gets to be Called Czech?

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Professor Michael Beckerman hosts a panel discussion about how to conceive of questions of Czech nationality/ethnicity in music from the early Renaissance to the 20th century. Invited panelists include scholars and musicians Erika Honisch, David Hoose, and Carl C. Bettendorf.

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Open House NY – The Dvorak Room Viewing
Oct
23
1:00 PM13:00

Open House NY – The Dvorak Room Viewing

GUIDED TOUR

The Dvorak Room at the Bohemian National Hall welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York Weekend – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public.

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The Dark Blue Exile of Jaroslav Jezek
Nov
29
7:00 PM19:00

The Dark Blue Exile of Jaroslav Jezek

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TALK

Musicologist and author Michael Beckerman will present the remarkable Czech composer, phenomenal pianist, and elemental musician Jaroslav Jezek (1906-1942) and discuss Jezek’s last years in New York where he lived in exile after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

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