Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Smetana, Czech polkas and dances; Monteverdi, Ballo delle Ingrate; Schubert, Divertissement a la Hongroise; Stamitz, Sinfonia Concertante in F; Mendelssohn, Quartet 6, opus 44; Poulenc, Aubade; Poot, Octet...
...Orchestra of America, founded two years ago to perform nothing but American music, presented the world premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series...
...Czech Composer Leos Janacek was 40 when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In its only U.S. production-during the 1924-25 Metropolitan Opera season, three years before Janacek's death-Jenufa (pronounced Yen-uffa) was roundly panned. In recent years, European opera houses have been looking at Jenufa with fresh admiration, and last week Chicago's Lyric Opera followed suit, gave the work its first U.S. performance in 35 years...
...shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
...aspect of this was the utilization of "Fascism." The Communists use the label of "Fascism" to condemn anything they oppose, and fascist techniques to foster what they favor. A fervent Arab communist would claim that anyone in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a fascist, while a more educated Czech communist would admit the fascists were "less than 10 per cent," but reach the same conclusion by the subtle historical error of giving them credit "as the elite who engineered the counter-revolution." When it came to proposing, the Festival rallies looked like films of Hitler's youth meetings...