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Painter Frederic E. Church was born in 1926 on Temple Street, Hartford. In the 200 years since then, his paintings have travelled the world and helped define American art. This hour, we'll speak with Victoria Johnson, author of a new biography all about Church. Plus, we’ll be joined by Betsy Kornhauser, former curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to explore Church’s current legacy. Guests: Victoria Johnson is a professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College and the author of “Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World”. Elizabeth Kornhauser is Senior Curator and Chair of the Frederic Church Bicentennial Committee at The Olana Partnership. She is Curator Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and former Chief Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Music featured (in order): String Quartet No. 12, “American”: IV. Finale – Antonin Dvorak, as performed by the Cleveland Quartet Color and Light – Sunday in the Park with George OBC Everytime I See River – Van Morrison When I Paint My Masterpiece – Emmylou Harris Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell Painter Song – Norah Jones The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wayla speaks with Virginia Symphony Music Director Eric Jacobsen and violinist Gil Shaham about their new album with the VSO, featuring music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Antonin Dvorak, and Curtis Stewart.
Antonín Dvořák - Vanda Overture, Op. 2BBC Philharmonic OrchestraStephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550600Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
C'est à la suite d'un télégramme inattendu qu'Antonin Dvorak, le plus célèbre compositeur tchèque de son temps, séjournera deux ans à New York, à 6 500 km de chez lui.Embarquez pour un voyage exaltant aux côtés du célèbre compositeur tchèque Antonin Dvorak ! En 1892, ce dernier reçoit une offre inattendue : prendre la direction du Conservatoire national de New York et y enseigner pendant deux ans. Une opportunité qu'il saisit sans hésiter, laissant derrière lui sa Bohême natale pour découvrir les merveilles du Nouveau Monde.
Antonín Dvořák - Bagatelles: Poco AllegroRyoko Morooka, harmoniumFine Arts QuartetMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.574513Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Trio per pianoforte n. 1 in si bemolle maggiore, op. 21 (B.51) 1. Allegro molto2. Adagio molto e mesto [10:56]3. Allegretto scherzando [19:23]4. Finale. Allegro vivace [25:53] ATOS TrioAnnette von Hehn, violinoStefan Heinemeyer, violoncelloThomas Hoppe, pianoforte
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 7: 3rd movementSlovak Philharmonic Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550270Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Gravelly announcer voice: This holiday season! A dynasty comes to an end in this final Sonic gamebook. A giant, Robotnik-shaped cloud descends on Mobius, screwing up the weather from zone to zone. Can Sonic overcome the egg-stained megalomaniac, and maybe also break his curse of immortality along the way? The book read in this episode is Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebook 6: Stormin' Sonic by Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green. • • • Patreon: patreon.com/improvtabletop Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / TikTok: @ImprovTabletop Email: ImprovTabletop@gmail.com Donations: ko-fi.com/improvtabletop • • • Audio Credits Improv Tabletop's theme song is “Melodic Marauder”, written by Scott Villanueva, and performed by Scott Villanueva and Ned Wilcock. “Movement IV. Allegro con fuoco” from Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178, is in the public domain. This recording used courtesy of Musopen. The following music was used for this media project: Music: Sunday Dub by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4435-sunday-dub License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com
Antonin Dvorak - Scherzo CapricciosoSlovak Philharmonic OrchestraZdenek Kosler, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550376Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
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In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.” We wanted to know how a gay/lesbian church came to call itself “a church with AIDS.” The answers lie in the years before our audio archive begins. So we started asking people. We explore two stories in what's likely a more complicated shift. One story is about a pair of religion geeks who learned to make queer church in New York during the early years of the AIDS crisis and then came to San Francisco to lead MCCSF. And the other is how an Easter Sunday ritual made the Christian hope of life through death viscerally real. “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS,” by Kittredge Cherry and Jamies Mitulski was published in the Christian Century on January 27, 1988. For images and links about this episode visit https://www.heavenpodcast.org/episode-3. Get more Outward with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Outward and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Outward show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/outwardplus for access wherever you listen. Production credits: When We All Get to Heaven is produced by Eureka Street Productions. It is co-created by Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman. Our story editor is Sayre Quevedo. Our sound designer is David Herman. Our managing producer is Krissy Clark. Tim Dillinger is our consulting producer and Betsy Towner Levine is our fact-checker. We had additional story editing help from Sarah Ventre, Arwen Nicks, Allison Behringer, and Krissy Clark. For a complete list of credits, please visit http://heavenpodcast.org/credits. This project received generous support from individual donors, the Henry Luce Foundation (www.hluce.org), the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the humanities (www.CalHum.org). Eureka Street Productions has 501c3 status through our fiscal sponsor FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds. The music for this episode is from the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco's archive. It was performed by MCC-SF's musicians and members with Bob Crocker and Jack Hoggatt-St.John as music directors. Additional music is by Tasty Morsels. “We See You God” is a variation on the anonymously written hymn “We See the Lord.” The soloist in “I Lift Mine Eyes Up” is Bob Crocker. It's by Antonin Dvorak, Biblical Songs, Op. 99, no. 9 on Psalm 121. “Hush, Hush. Somebody's Calling My Name” is a traditional African American spiritual. Great thanks, as always, to the members and clergy of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco who made this project possible. Some links to good groups: The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco – the congregation's current website. Metropolitan Community Churches – the denomination of which MCC San Francisco is a part. San Francisco AIDS Foundation – a place to seek information about HIV. POZ Magazine – a place to learn everything else about HIV (information included). Save AIDS Research – their recent, epic 24 hours to Save Research conference with all the latest HIV research is available on YouTube through this site. LGBTQ Religious Archives Network – the place to get lost in LGBTQ+ religious history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.” We wanted to know how a gay/lesbian church came to call itself “a church with AIDS.” The answers lie in the years before our audio archive begins. So we started asking people. We explore two stories in what's likely a more complicated shift. One story is about a pair of religion geeks who learned to make queer church in New York during the early years of the AIDS crisis and then came to San Francisco to lead MCCSF. And the other is how an Easter Sunday ritual made the Christian hope of life through death viscerally real. “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS,” by Kittredge Cherry and Jamies Mitulski was published in the Christian Century on January 27, 1988. For images and links about this episode visit https://www.heavenpodcast.org/episode-3. Get more Outward with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Outward and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Outward show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/outwardplus for access wherever you listen. Production credits: When We All Get to Heaven is produced by Eureka Street Productions. It is co-created by Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman. Our story editor is Sayre Quevedo. Our sound designer is David Herman. Our managing producer is Krissy Clark. Tim Dillinger is our consulting producer and Betsy Towner Levine is our fact-checker. We had additional story editing help from Sarah Ventre, Arwen Nicks, Allison Behringer, and Krissy Clark. For a complete list of credits, please visit http://heavenpodcast.org/credits. This project received generous support from individual donors, the Henry Luce Foundation (www.hluce.org), the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the humanities (www.CalHum.org). Eureka Street Productions has 501c3 status through our fiscal sponsor FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds. The music for this episode is from the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco's archive. It was performed by MCC-SF's musicians and members with Bob Crocker and Jack Hoggatt-St.John as music directors. Additional music is by Tasty Morsels. “We See You God” is a variation on the anonymously written hymn “We See the Lord.” The soloist in “I Lift Mine Eyes Up” is Bob Crocker. It's by Antonin Dvorak, Biblical Songs, Op. 99, no. 9 on Psalm 121. “Hush, Hush. Somebody's Calling My Name” is a traditional African American spiritual. Great thanks, as always, to the members and clergy of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco who made this project possible. Some links to good groups: The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco – the congregation's current website. Metropolitan Community Churches – the denomination of which MCC San Francisco is a part. San Francisco AIDS Foundation – a place to seek information about HIV. POZ Magazine – a place to learn everything else about HIV (information included). Save AIDS Research – their recent, epic 24 hours to Save Research conference with all the latest HIV research is available on YouTube through this site. LGBTQ Religious Archives Network – the place to get lost in LGBTQ+ religious history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.” We wanted to know how a gay/lesbian church came to call itself “a church with AIDS.” The answers lie in the years before our audio archive begins. So we started asking people. We explore two stories in what's likely a more complicated shift. One story is about a pair of religion geeks who learned to make queer church in New York during the early years of the AIDS crisis and then came to San Francisco to lead MCCSF. And the other is how an Easter Sunday ritual made the Christian hope of life through death viscerally real. “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS,” by Kittredge Cherry and Jamies Mitulski was published in the Christian Century on January 27, 1988. For images and links about this episode visit https://www.heavenpodcast.org/episode-3. Get more Outward with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Outward and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Outward show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/outwardplus for access wherever you listen. Production credits: When We All Get to Heaven is produced by Eureka Street Productions. It is co-created by Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman. Our story editor is Sayre Quevedo. Our sound designer is David Herman. Our managing producer is Krissy Clark. Tim Dillinger is our consulting producer and Betsy Towner Levine is our fact-checker. We had additional story editing help from Sarah Ventre, Arwen Nicks, Allison Behringer, and Krissy Clark. For a complete list of credits, please visit http://heavenpodcast.org/credits. This project received generous support from individual donors, the Henry Luce Foundation (www.hluce.org), the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the humanities (www.CalHum.org). Eureka Street Productions has 501c3 status through our fiscal sponsor FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds. The music for this episode is from the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco's archive. It was performed by MCC-SF's musicians and members with Bob Crocker and Jack Hoggatt-St.John as music directors. Additional music is by Tasty Morsels. “We See You God” is a variation on the anonymously written hymn “We See the Lord.” The soloist in “I Lift Mine Eyes Up” is Bob Crocker. It's by Antonin Dvorak, Biblical Songs, Op. 99, no. 9 on Psalm 121. “Hush, Hush. Somebody's Calling My Name” is a traditional African American spiritual. Great thanks, as always, to the members and clergy of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco who made this project possible. Some links to good groups: The Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco – the congregation's current website. Metropolitan Community Churches – the denomination of which MCC San Francisco is a part. San Francisco AIDS Foundation – a place to seek information about HIV. POZ Magazine – a place to learn everything else about HIV (information included). Save AIDS Research – their recent, epic 24 hours to Save Research conference with all the latest HIV research is available on YouTube through this site. LGBTQ Religious Archives Network – the place to get lost in LGBTQ+ religious history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The first phase of the Israel-Hamas peace deal has gained momentum but major obstacles may still block the plan's implementation. We take look at the truce itself, and speak with Israelis and Palestinians about their thoughts. Also, a mixture of resignation and defiance in India as the US increases its H-1B visa fees. And, a South American trade bloc rules that Peru has violated its commitments to cracking down on illegal gold mining. Plus, the house where the great Czech composer Antonin Dvorak was born in 1841 reopens after years of renovations.Listen to today's Music Heard on Air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
"Klassik to Go" - die digitale Werkeinführung zum Download! Ob unterwegs oder zuhause: Stimmen Sie sich auf das Konzert ein. Hier hören Sie Interessantes zu Antonín Dvořáks dramatische Sinfonie Nr. 7. Wussen Sie zum Beispiel, dass dem Komponisten das Hauptthema im Jahr 1884 bei der Einfahrt eines Sonderzuges in den Prager Hauptbahnhof einfiel? Julius Heile präsentiert Informatives zum Werk und seinen Hintergründen. Schon gewusst? Zahlreiche Konzerte der NDR Ensembles finden Sie auf YouTube im Channel "ARD Klassik" oder in der ARD Mediathek. https://www.youtube.com/@ARDKlassik https://www.ardmediathek.de/kultur_klassik Abonnieren Sie "Klassik to Go" und finden Sie weitere spannende Angebote des NDR in der ARD Audiothek! https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/klassik-to-go/10778959/
Antonín Dvořák - Othello OvertureBBC Philharmonic OrchestraStephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550600Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”: FinaleSlovak Philharmonic OrchestraStephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.553229Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Donald Trump's controversial state visit to the UK, a closer look at how Spain and the Netherlands are keeping Palestine in the spotlight, and a Swedish Spy Church. Then: new recruits join a military bootcamp outside Paris, an audio-tour of the world of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and why Turkey's opposition fear the worst. ++ link to the UN report on Gaza: https://shorturl.at/mVIVO ++?maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”: LargoSlovak Radio Symphony OrchestraOndrej Lenard, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.556604Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonín Dvořák - Carnival OvertureBBC Philharmonic OrchestraStephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550600Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonín Dvořák - In Nature's Realm OvertureBBC Philharmonic OrchestraStephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550600Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonín Dvořák - Stabat Mater: Tui Nati VulneratiWestminster Choir New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Zdenek Macal, conductorMore info about today's track: Delos DE3227Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Es sind oft grausame Begebenheiten, die Antonin Dvorak zu aufregenden „Symphonischen Dichtungen“ verarbeitet hat. Die Werke nach böhmischen Märchenballaden sind alle nach der berühmten „Symphonie aus der Neuen Welt“ entstanden, also Werke aus der Spätphase des Komponisten und enthalten herrliche Melodien, aber auch pittoreske Klangbilder, die sich zu spannenden Erzählungen verdichten. Im heutigen Musiksalon hören wir Beispiele aus den blutrünstigen musikalischen Thrillern „Die Waldtaube“, „Der Wassermann“ und „Die Mittagshexe“, sowie die gesamte Tondichtung „Das goldene Spinnrad“, die als einzige ein Happy End hat.
Antonín Dvořák - Symphonic VariationsSlovak Philharmonic Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550271Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonín Dvořák - Silent WoodsMaria Kliegel, celloNina Tichman, pianoMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.557613Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonin Dvořák - String Quartet No. 1: 3rd movementVlach Quartet PragueMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.557357Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Musik, die uns Geborgenheit und inneren Frieden gibt. Es geht musikalisch in die Ferne und wieder zurück zu unserer eigenen Grundtonart – mit dichten Streichern und warmen Holzbläsern. Diese Musikstücke hörst Du in dieser Folge: Michael Bublé – "Home" // Percy Grainger – "Danny Boy" // Michael Bolton – "Home" // Antonin Dvorak – "Romanze für Cello" // Michel Petrucciani – "Home" // Hape Kerkeling – "Der Weg nach Haus" // Den Podcast "Helau und Hell No - Inside Karnevalistischer Tanzsport" vom BR findest Du hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/helau-und-hell-no-inside-karnevalistischer-tanzsport/13854869/ Wenn Du eine Idee oder einen Wunsch zu einem musikalischen Thema hast, dann schreib mir eine Mail: playlist@ndr.de
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8: 4th movementSlovak Philharmonic Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductorMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.550269Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
In this week's WCRI Kids Hour, hosts Jamie and Spencer listen to music about witches. You'll hear music from Wicked, Harry Potter, Antonin Dvorak, Modest Mussorgsky, and more!
Antonin Dvorak - String Quartet No. 12 'American': 4th movementVlach Quartet PragueMore info about today's track: Naxos 8.553256Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Antonin Dvorak - Bagatelles: Allegretto Scherzando Oliver Triendl, harmoniumVogler String QuartetMore info about today's track: CPO 777624-2Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc.SubscribeYou can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed.Purchase this recordingAmazon
Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring selections from European Masters: Johannes Brahms, Franz Doppler, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Giacomo Puccini, Serge Prokofiev, Almilcare Ponchielli, Antonin Dvorak. It was recorded live on June 2, 2024 at Good Shepherd Auditorium. With arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. Featuring soloists:Helen Campo - FluteDanny Miller - CelloSetsuko Otake - OboeProgram:Johannes BrahmsHungarian Dance No. 4 Ottorino RespighiFrom Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 2 - Laura Soave Serge ProkofievFrom Romeo and Juliet - Dance of the Knights Antonin DvorakConcerto for Cello and Orchestra op. 1042nd Movement Adagio, ma non troppoDanny Miller - Cello Soloist Ottorino RespighiFrom Ancient Airs and Dance Suite No. 2 - Danza Rustica Maurice RavelPavane Ottorino RespighiFrom Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 2 - Bergamasca Giocomo PucciniSenza Mamma from Suor AngelicaSetsuko Otake - Oboe Soloist Franz DopplerFantasie Pastorale HongroiseHelen Campo - Flute Soloist Almicare PonchielliDance of the Hours from La Gioconda Musicians:Helen Campo - Flute 1, Kimberly O'Hare - Flute 2 and Piccolo, Setsuko Otake - Oboe 1, Karen Birch Blundell - Oboe 2, Meryl Abt Greenfield - Clarinet 1, Jackie Gillette - Clarinet 2, RJ Kelly - Horn 1, Nancy Billmann - Horn 2, Sarah Boxmeyer - Horn 3, Laura Weiner - Horn 4, Patricia Wang - Bassoon 1, Yuki Higashi - Bassoon 2, Jeffrey Levine - Double Bass, Danny Miller – Cello, Violetta Norrie - Harp
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SynopsisOn today's date in 1890, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak conducted the first performance of his Symphony No. 8 in Prague, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts.By 1890, Dvorak was a world-famous composer, honored in his own country and abroad. Within a year of its premiere, Dvorak conduced his Symphony No. 8 again in London, Frankfurt and at Cambridge University, where he received an honorary doctorate in music in 1891.Despite some mysterious and melancholy passages, Dvorak's Eighth Symphony is usually described as “sunny,” “idyllic” and “pastoral.” Its final movement opens with a brass fanfare, perhaps a reference to a century-old tradition of signal trumpeters playing from the towers and parapets in Prague, a sight and sound that visitors to the famous Astronomical Clock tower in that city's Old Town Square can still experience today.It's amusing — and perhaps revealing of something deep in the national spirit — that at a rehearsal of this finale, legendary Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik quipped to his players, "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle — they always call to the dance!"Music Played in Today's ProgramAntonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Symphony No. 8; Berlin Philharmonic; Rafael Kubelik, cond. DG 447 412
Iowa illustrator and author Gary Kelley discusses his latest graphic novel, Red, White, and Black. America's Czech With Balance! and collaboration with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony.
SynopsisNov. 17, 1878, marked a milestone in the career of 37-year old Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. For the first time, he engaged and conducted the orchestra of the Provisional Theater in Prague in a concert entirely of his own works, including the premiere performance of a new Serenade for Winds.Earlier that year, Dvorak heard a performance of a Mozart wind serenade in Vienna and was so taken by the sound of Mozart's double-reeds and horns that he wrote a similar work in just two weeks.Dvorak added to the open-air feel of Mozart's 18th-century wind serenade some lively 19th-century Czech dance rhythms. But he also chose the key of D minor, reserved by Mozart for some of his most serious works. That enables Dvorak's Serenade to seem both somber and upbeat, infused with musical shadows and sunlight.The new work was well received in Prague and also in Vienna, where one its biggest fans was Johannes Brahms, who wrote: ``A more lovely, refreshing impression of real, rich and charming creative talent you can't imagine. I think it must be a pleasure for the wind players!''Music Played in Today's ProgramAntonin Dvorak Serenade for Winds; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, cond. Teldec
Along with Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek is known as one of the three great Czech composers. He was born in Moravia, part of the Austrian Empire at the time, and became passionately interested in studying the folk music of his Moravian culture. After World War I, when the empire collapsed and Moravia became incorporated into the new country of Czechoslovakia, those nationalistic sentiments only increased, and Janacek was the perfect person to express those feelings through his music, seeing as his interest in the folk music of his homeland had been a lifelong passion for him. Enter the Sinfonietta, written in 1926, commissioned by none other than a Gymnastics festival! A sinfonietta is usually a smaller scale piece than a symphony, shorter, with a lighter orchestration and a lighter touch. But Janacek was always a rebel, and his Sinfonietta is a symphony in all but name, featuring an absolutely massive brass section that lustily performs the nationliaistic fanfares that Janacek gleefully adds to the music. The Sinfonietta is an expression of patriotic love for Janacek's homeland, but it is also a piece that shows off so many of the things that make Janacek such a unique and underrated composer, his love of short fragmented melodies, his shocks and surprises, his innovative use of orchestration, and more. If you're not familiar with Janacek's music, the Sinfonietta is the perfect entry point, so come join us on this Patreon-sponsored episode!