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Did you know that every decade, places all over the world celebrate the music of Czechia for an entire year? This tradition started exactly 100 years ago for the 100th birthday of Bedřich Smetana, and ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Cerny, a legendary Czech music critic who introduced Western music to generations of listeners behind the Iron Curtain and became one of the voices of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet ...

When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought “big bravura playing” was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Eva Krestová remembered ...

Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium is as integral to Manhattan’s bedrock as any place in the city. Yet this week one could be forgiven for thinking it had been transported to Prague (or Brno), so ...

Despite a solid tradition of music inspired by American mavericks like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, the Prague rock scene was still lying low when Miroslav Wanek started playing in the 1980s.

The Czech Philharmonic, under Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, commemorates the centennial of the Year of Czech Music in 2024 with a variety of programs around the world, with ...

The folk band Nerez holds a special place in the history of Czech popular music. Their distinctive sound was captured on their debut album Masopust, released in 1986.

NEW YORK (AP) — Eva Krestová remembered Semyon Bychkov’s first rehearsal as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, leading Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” symphony. “I was shaking,” the viola leader ...